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If you can read this, thank your sysadmin

Today is System Administrator Appreciation Day. From (the wikipedia entry on sysadmin Dasy) :

System Administrator Appreciation Day, also known as Sysadmin Day, SysAdminDay or SAAD, was created by Ted Kekatos, a system administrator in Chicago. Kekatos was inspired to create the special day by a Hewlett-Packard magazine advertisement in which a system administrator is presented with flowers and fruit-baskets by grateful co-workers as thanks for installing new printers.[1] The holiday exists to show appreciation for the work of sysadmins and other IT workers. It is celebrated on the last Friday in July. The first System Administrator Appreciation Day was celebrated on July 28, 2000.

As a side note I may suggest you take a while to read this beautiful and involving novel by Cory Doctorow “When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth”.

Happy Sysadmin Day!