I am very happy and flattered that this site actually proves to be useful to folks. It was always my intention to use this as a platform to try to give back a bit, to help with any data I may have run across that was interesting, useful, or obscure.  I utilize sites like etherialmind.com, packetpushers.net, evilrouters.net, networkstatic.net and ioshints more than I can even measure.  I wanted to try to contribute as much as I could to pay it back.  So, seeing at it’s a new year and all, I couldn’t resist doing some data mining on the analytics of this site over the course of the last 12 months. I was once again surprised to see that a firewall post was clearly the most popular.  The recent post on the Sonicwall was the clear, overwhelming winner having more than twice the views as it’s closest rival. It’s interesting to see that, especially since most of what I do every day is routing and switching.  However, when this site was originally brought online back in 2008 (as tech.buraglio.com) to house my very rough notes on the Juniper SRX platform that I had the pleasure of being a very early adopter of, it was really obvious that folks wanted to see that data.  Those posts, although somewhat old, continue to be pretty popular. The post on Plexxi and the post on SDN across the WAN are also pretty popular and both are subjects I will likely revisit as time permits. I’m working on many, many cool projects this year and I plan to write notes on every one of them.  Hopefully they’ll be useful to someone.   Welcome to 2013.  Let’s blow some minds, melt some faces and push some envelopes.