The online editor at Crain's Detroit Business sends this along:

http://www.sysadminday.com/

From the site:

System Administrator Appreciation Day - A special day, once a year, to
acknowledge the worthiness and appreciation of the person occupying the
role, especially as it is often this person who really keeps the wheels of
your company turning.

This appreciation day includes many system administrators:

 Computer Administrators

 Network Administrators

 Internet Administrators (webmaster)

 Telephone (PBX) Administrators

 Voice-Mail Administrators

 Database Administrators (DBA)

 Email System Administrators

 Mainframe Systems Programmers ("sysprogs")

And these gift suggestions:

Gift Ideas
So how do you determine what is the right gift? Let's go over some ideas and
as we do you might come up with some gift ideas of your own!  (send
additional gift suggestions)

 Handheld GPS Unit - such as Garmin E-Map w/CDROM | Garmin Street Pilot III

 White LED Flashlight - such as EternaLight

 Gift Certificate from  ThinkGeek.com

 Case of Iced Mocha Cappuccino | Frappuccino R

 Case of Leonetti Cabernet Sauvignon Wine

 Green Laser Pointer (Green - not Red)

 XM Radio PCR

 Cake and Ice Cream party (balloons optional)

 Punch and Pie | Cookies and Brownies. Preferably homebaked

 Portable MP3 Music Player (model with biggest disk) IPod or ARCHOS

 Plasma TV (42" or larger)

 "Geek Disc CDROM" - collection of comedy songs by Wes Borg

 iMac w/LCD screen w/Superdrive

 Fantazein Clock persistence of vision desk clock

 Nerf R Weapons

 BlackBerry Wireless Handheld

 Swingline "The Red Stapler" available from Swingline or Thinkgeek

 Digital Camera, 4 Mega-Pixel or greater - such as Olympus or Nikon

 Tickets (qty 4) to Baseball | Hockey | Basketball

 Gift Certificate from AMAZON.com |  BUY.com | BestBuy.com

 DVD Video Player (SONY, JVC)

 Home Theater System | Receiver | All-in-one (SONY)

 Big comfy Lazy-Boy R chair (for home of course)

 Radio-Controlled Car | Truck | Boat (electric preferred - don't forget
battery charger)

 Specialty Food Basket | Gourmet Chocolates | Fruit Basket

 Gift Certificates, Gift Certificates, Gift Certificates.

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