99 Blog Posts on the Wall...

...99 blog posts.

You write one down syn-di-cate it around.

98 blog posts on the wall.

CloudFucius is on vacation this week, and in preparation for our 100th Blog Spectacular (think of it as First Annual Montgomery Burns Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence), where we self promote, share thoughts and reflect on how we got here - this entry consists of a Montage Blog and exploring the number 99.

 

Ninety Nine has many connections:

• 99 Bottles of Beer
• 99, a song by Toto
• 3x3x11: the Prime Factors of 99
• 99 Luftballoons by Nena
• 99 Problems by Jay-Z
• Prince’s 1999
• Agent 99 was Maxwell Smart’s (Agent 86) partner
• Mark Gastineau wore #99, as did Wayne Gretzky, Manny Ramírez and George Mikan
• 99 is the NBA record for Most Free Throw Attempts in a 7-game series, set by Elgin Baylor
• In the film Major League, Charlie Sheen's character wore the Cleveland Indians #99
• Atomic number 99 - a radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons
• 99 in Numerology represents artistic genius.
• 99 Ranch Market
• 99 Cent Store
• “Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration” - Thomas Edison

and the 98 other posts I’ve made:

• Connecting to a Cloud while Flying thru the Clouds
• CloudFucius Shares: Cloud Research and Stats
• CloudFucius Listens: F5’s Cloud Computing Solutions
• CloudFucius Combines: Security and Acceleration
• CloudFucius Inspects: Hosts in the Cloud
• F5 Interop 2010 Video Outtake
• CloudFucius Wants: An Optimized Cloud
• American Suzuki Case Study with F5 Networks
• Fast Application Access with Jonathan George - F5 at Interop
• CloudFucius Ponders: High-Availability in the Cloud
• F5's BIG-IP with Oracle® Access Manager to enhance SSO and Access Control
• CSRF Prevention with F5's BIG-IP ASM v10.2
• Oracle Data Guard sync over the WAN with F5 BIG-IP
• CloudFucius Hollers: Read All About, F5’s On-Demand IT
• F5 at Interop - Ken Salchow talks about Recent Announcements
• Find F5 Networks at Interop 2010
• The First American Corporation Case Study - F5 Networks
• F5 Long Distance VMotion Solution Demo
• CloudFucius Wonders: Can Cloud, Confidentiality and The Constitution Coexist?
• CloudFucius Says: AAA Important to the Cloud
• CloudFucius Says: Blog Series, Good Idea
• Today’s Target: Corporate Secrets
• How Terms Have Changed over Time
• F5 BIG-IP Edge Gateway Performance Demo
• 4 out of 5 Folks Not Quite Sure What the Cloud Is
• The Inter-Cloud: Will MAE become a MAC?
• Lori MacVittie Interview at Cloud Connect
• Smart Cities – From IDC Directions 2010
• Self Serve Security
• In 5 Minutes Video - How I Create an ‘In 5 Minutes or Less’ Video
• In 5 Minutes Video - Smart Connection with the BIG-IP Edge Client
• Dan Kaminsky Inter Part I
• Dan Kaminsky Inter Part II
• Dan Kaminsky Inter Part III
• F5 Networks Partner Spotlight - Splunk
• F5 Networks Partner Spotlight - Layer 7 Technologies
• F5 Networks Partner Spotlight - OPSWAT
• F5 Networks Partner Spotlight - Secure Passage
• My 2010 RSA Conference & Kaminsky Inter
• A is for Application, J is for Jacked
• F5 Web Media On-Demand
• Security - Still in the Driver’s Seat
• Consolidate and Dedicate to Eradicate
• The State of My Blog Address
• Cybercrime, the Easy Way
• New Decade, Same Threats?
• Post-Blog Report: 26 Short Topics about Security
• Catch some Zzzzzzzzzzzzz
• It all comes down to YOU - The User
• X marks the Games
• Pearl Harbor, Punchbowl and my Grandparents
• Windows Shopping
• Virtualization is Real
• You’ve Taken That Out of Context
• IPv6 and the End of the World
• Social Media – Friend or Foe
• Will you Comply or just Check the Box?
• Don’t say a Word
• This time, it’s Personal
• F5’s BIG-IP system with Oracle Access Manager
• Can my PAN ride the LAN out the WAN?
• Our H1N1 Preparedness Plan
• Reduce your Risk
• Brought to you by the Letter L and the Number 7
• Keys to the Kingdom
• The Threat Behind the Firewall
• Dumpster Diving vs. The Bit Bucket
• Hacks, Hackers, Hacking
• Be Our Guest
• Yelling ‘WebApp Firewall’ in a Crowded Data Center
• The Encryption Dance
• Bit.ly, Twitter, Security & You
• Decade old Data Centers
• Remember when we drew big Clouds on whiteboards…
• BREACH is the Word, is the Word, is the Word that you Heard….
• 26 Short Topics about Security: Stats, Stories and Suggestions
• CIA of Security II – Electric Buggaloo
• CIA of Security
• Layer 7 DoS & Brute Force Protection Story
• Interopt Out
• Old MacDonald had a SSL VPN, E-I-E-I-O
• v10 for Your Eyes & Ears
• A Clear, Clouded Conversation
• Stop, Click & Listen
• Tell me a Story, Whitepaper style
• Time the Avenger (also a great Pretenders song)
• Regulation Roundup
• This blog goes to Eleven
• Encryption Anywhere and Everywhere
• Another Breach, another F5 Solution
• Blame it on the Brain
• They’re Back!! ...or Stop the Bot
• Do you Splunk?
• Web 2.Oh No!
• Calling all Conversations
• FirePass - Now with GPO!!
• Web 2.0 and your Health
• First post

Thanks for your attention, readership and comments over the last couple years.  I also love when the odometer reads 99 so I could see all the numbers roll.

And one from Confucius: It does not matter the number of times we fall but the number of times we rise when we fall.

ps

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