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Diary of a Network Geek

Sysadmin Day

Today is System Administrators Appreciation Day.
Today is a day set aside to give thanks that either: a) someone else manages your servers, or b) you have servers to manage. It's not an official holiday, yet, but, much like "Administrative Professionals" Day (aka Secretaries Day), it's a day to think about the "little people" that make your job possible. This is the sixth annual System Administrators Appreciation Day and, to date, no one has done a damn thing for me. I'm so unloved.

Stupid Spammers

The only thing I hate worse than spammers are stupid spammers.
Does anyone test their code besides me anymore? I've lost count of how many times I've gotten what are obvious spam e-mails filled with variables that were never correctly processed. It's ridiculous!
On another note, I would like to take a moment to send the blog comment spammers the following message: