How the World Works

By Andrew Leonard
Friday, July 27, 2007 08:00 PDT

Hug your systems administrator

Today is the last Friday in July. This means, as Cory Doctorow reminds us at Boing Boing, that today is System Administrator Appreciation Day.

If we understand contemporary globalization as a process that is in part driven by the emergence of a global network of computers, then it is no understatement to say that sysadmins make the world go 'round. Bow down before their might and swear fealty. They deserve it.

― Andrew Leonard

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