Dedicated to all Sysadmins of the world:

"Choose no life. Choose no career. Choose no family. Choose a fucking big computer, choose arrays the size of washing machines, modem racks, CD ROM writers and electrical coffee makers. Choose no sleep, high caffeine and mental insurance. Choose no friends. Choose black jeans and matching combat boots. Choose chairs for your office in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose SMTP and wondering why the fuck you're logged on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting in that swivel chair looking at mind-numbing, spirit-crushing web sites, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing your last on some miserable newsgroup, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up lusers Gates spawned to replace the computer-literate. Choose your future. Choose sysadmining." - Adminspotting

Tomorrow, July 30, 2004 is System Administrator Appreciation Day. Be nice to those people who keep your computers, networks, servers, databases, etc. etc. humming smoothly. Give 'em some loving in the form of interesting toys, a night out with Siti Nurhaliza, etc. to make 'em happy on that day. You don't want them to turn into a Bastard Operator From Hell, do ya? After all, they gotta put up with the usual stuff from you for the other 364 days.