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A year or so back, while doing some courses on Azure, I ran in to a nagging "Platform Image Not Found" issue. The basic gist of the problem was that there was discrepancy between the Azure portal's VM set up screens and the actual config file that was getting generated behind the scenes.  In case you're running into this issue, I documented all the steps to work around this issue on Medium a year or so back. Here's the link:  Azure Virtual Machine — Visual Studio Platform Image Not Found

 A few thoughts... American Kingpin by Nick Bilton  is an extremely well written book, and details the gripping story behind the infamous Silk Road marketplace - its beginnings, parabolic rise and precipitous decline. Along the way, the author provides colorful and intriguing commentary behind the people involved and their life stories. Reading this book, reminded me of the famous Balzac quote from one of my favorite books The Godfather - "Behind every great fortune there is a crime". The book starts with the seemingly innocuous Libertarian ideals behind the foundation of the site but quickly turns extremely dark with references to hard drugs, guns, organ selling and murders. The type of dark that if you read a few chapters before going to bed, like I did, some of the characters and references show up in your dreams and you wake up with a racing heartbeat! :) Favorite line from the book... "What a country...one minute you're the nobody son of an Armenian immigrant, w