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Happy New Year! 🥳

I wanted to kick off the new year with something that I had shared at the end of 2022, which was a break down on the number of blog posts that I have published over the years.

Since @rhjensen was asking about number of blog posts compared to previous years ....

With some quick PowerShell Automation, here's all my blog post breakdown from 2010-2022 along with the sum, minimum, maximum and average. Sounds like 2015 was an interesting year 😁 pic.twitter.com/WIt2KZ34Qa

— William Lam (@*protected email*) (@lamw) December 16, 2022

A number of folks had reached out asking how they could do the same for their own blogs and so I wanted to share the solution that I had used.

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After publishing my previous article, I realized my next blog post (this article) would be number 1,000, which is pretty insane! It has been an amazing 8 years of sharing and engaging with the VMware community and I just want to thank everyone that has supported me over the years.

Although I have a number of technical blog posts in the backlog, I thought I might do something fun and different for post #1,000. One question that I have gotten over the years, especially when talking to customers and partners in-person is, what is the story behind the name of my blog, virtuallyGhetto? I sometimes even get funny looks as customers are introducing me to their colleagues and management team when they mention the name of my blog 🙂

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1,000th post - The story behind virtuallyGhetto