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Over on the Aprigo blog, we've got a thread going on where we're sharing our favorite personal IT blunder stories. See, due to human error our blog went down this week and we lost all of our comments. While we were putting the blog back together, we started comparing our own IT war stories.



Immediately it turned into a game of one-upmanship, so we thought… Continue

We just did an interview with Rick Gillette, a sysadmin in the greater Phoenix, AZ area who is looking for his next sysadmin gig. Rick is doing some interesting things with social media in order to attract his next employer, and we came up with a list of resources sysadmins can take advantage of when looking for the next opportunity.



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This week, I announced our company's Sysadmin Appreciation Day giveaway on this site, but today I had another idea. It's one thing to come up with some prizes, but I wanted to really prove how much we care about the sysadmin community. So, I decide to shoot a trailer for a horror movie called "A World Without A Sysadmin". The movie would be a horror/thriller about what would happen to the world if sysadmins simply disappeared.



Hope you like… Continue

We just launched a giveaway to coincide with International Sysadmin Appreciation day on 7/31, so I thought this may be of interest to some of the folks on the sysadmin network. Here's the post, copied from our blog:



Just two days ago we learned of a holiday that is in dire need of more recognition: Sysadmin Appreciation Day, and we want to celebrate. From the Sysadmin Day web site:

Friday, July 31, 2009, is…

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