Media Archive

Media Contacts
The media (print and on-line) can contact SysAdminDay and The League of Professional System Administrators (LOPSA) at media@lopsa.org.

Submit press sightings to mediasightings @ sysadminday.com

2007 Press Sightings and Mentions

• Government Computer News - July 27, 2007 - Have you hugged your system administrator?
• ZDNET.co.uk - July 27, 2007 - Celebrate your sysadmin today
• SLASHDOT.ORG - July 27, 2007 - Happy System Administrator Appreciation Day
• WashingtonPost "Faster Forward" Blog - July 27, 2007 - Happy SysAdminDay!
• Boing Boing - July 27, 2007 - Happy Sysadmin Day, Ken!
• GEARlog.com - July 27, 2007 - Raise Your Glass: It's System Administrator Appreciation Day!
• The Register - UK - 27 July 2007 - Sysadmin Day 2007: still time to get the beers in
• Cobweb Blog - 27 July 2007 - Friday - International SysAdmin Appreciation Day!
• Automatisering Gids - Juli 27 2007 " Systeembeheerders in het zonnetje
  (translates into "a little sun on the system administrator")
• Domestic Geek (blog) - July 11, 2007
• Chris Pirillo Lockergnome Blog - July 26, 2007
• NetworkWorld - CISCO SubNet  Brad Reese Blog - July 10, 2007

2006 Press Sightings and Mentions

• The Register - UK - 28 July 2006 - Happy SysAdmin Day!
• newsvine.com - July 26, 2006
• Thank you to the hundreds of mentions on blogs and other websites.

2005 Press Sightings and Mentions

• Forbes.com - Digital Download - July 29, 2005
  Break Out The Mountain Dew
• CNET News.com - July 29, 2005
  Happy System Administrator Appreciation Day
• OS News - July 29, 2005
  Today is System Administrator Appreciation Day
• Slashdot.org - July 29, 2005
  System Administrator Appreciation Day
• The Register UK - July 29, 2005
  Love, love your sysadmin, do
• Blogdex.net - index of blogs which mention SysAdminDay.com
• In The Trenches - The Podcast for Sys Admins
  Program #101 July 26, 2005 Interview (MP3 podcast)
• Technocrat.net - July 22, 2005 Sysadmin Appreciation Day next Friday
• Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine Online (mcpmag.com)
  July 21, 2005 "Thank You, SysAdmin Guy!"
• BigAdmin.com (Sun Microsystems) - July 2005 "MOTD"
• InformationWeek - By John Soat June 20, 2005
  IT Confidential: Identifying Foreigners, Human And Not (See last paragraph)
• Digg.com - SysAdmin Day
• PC World Online (pcworld.hu) 2005.07.15.
  K�t h�t m�lva �nnepelj�k a rendszergazd�kat!
• Robert's Blog July 16 2005 - "System Administrator Appreciation Day"
• Sunhelp.org 2005 System Administrator Appreciation Day
• Dead Trolls SysAdmin Day Song and Video
• The PC Weenies July 20, 2005 Cartoon

2004 Press Sightings and Mentions

• WebWereld 30 july 2004 Bedenker 'Sys Admin Day' zit zelf zonder werk
• User Friendly - Cartoon for SysAdmin Day 2004 - July 30 2004
• IT Administrator - Germany
  • 27 July 2004 - Am 30.7.04 ist System Administrator Appreciation Day
• NU.nl Net - The Netherlands
  • 27 July 2004 - Zet je systeembeheerder in het zonnetje
• Spencer Katt - eWEEK Magazine - USA
  • 19 July 2004 - (See the last few sentences of Spencer Katt's article)
• ThinComputing.NET - System Administrator Appreciation Day
• hundreds of blogs

2003 Press Sightings and Mentions

• The Register - UK - 25 July 2003 - Today is Sys Admin Day
• User Friendly - Cartoon for SysAdmin Day 2003 - July 25, 2003
• ComputerWorld Norway - Norway
  • 25 July 2003 - V�r snill med it-avdelingen i dag!
• WebWereld IDG - The Netherlands
  • 25 July 2003 - Vrijdag jaarlijkse systeembeheerdersdag
• Heise Verlag Online - Germany
  • 24 July 2003 - Lobpreist die Systemadministratoren!
• Tweakers.net - The Netherlands
  • 24 July 2003 - Vrijdag 25 juli jaarlijkse systeembeheerderdag
• The Otago Daily Times - New Zealand
  • 23 July 2003 - "Splash out on IT people"

2002 Press Sightings and Mentions

• Australian Reseller News - Sydney, Australia
  • 17 July, 2002   "System Admin Day (un)officially declared"
• BBC News - UK
  • Friday, 26 July, 2002 - "Celebrate the computer helpers"
• The Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney, Australia
  • July 26 2002 - "Blessed are the geeks"
• CNET News (www.News.com) - USA
  • July 22, 2002 - "Give a geek a hug"
• Computerworld Sydney, Australia
  • 8 July, 2002 - "Sys administrators get 'appreciation' Day"
• Computerworld Denmark
  • tirsdag 23 Jul 2002 - "Kys din systemadministrator p� fredag"
• Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine - USA
  • 7/26/2002 - "Systems Administrators: 'Thanks!'"
• Minnesota Public Radio - USA
  • Future Tense - July 26th, 2002 - Radio Interview with Ted
• MSNBC.COM - Link on MSN.com homepage - (CNET News)
  • July 23, 2002 - "Give a geek a hug"
• The Register - UK
  • Friday, 26 July 2002 - Today is SysAdmin Day
• SearchSolaris.com
  • 25 Jul 2002 - "Every geek has his/her day -- in this case it's Friday"
• Silicon.com - Tue 23 July 2002 -
  • "Celebrate the unsung server room heroes -
    Show them you love them this Sys Admin Day..."
• Slashdot.org - Wednesday July 24, 2002 - "Time to Say Thanks For the Uptime"
• User Friendly - July 24-27, 2002 - Cartoon
  • 07/24/2002
  • 07/25/2002
  • 07/26/2002
  • 07/28/2002
• vnunet.com - UK
  • 26-07-2002 - "It's Systems Admin Appreciation Day!"
• ZDNET (CNET News)
  • July 23, 2002 - "Give a geek a hug"
• ZDNET UK (CNET News)
  • Tuesday 23rd July 2002 - "Give a geek a hug"
• SunHelp News
  • July 26, 2002 - "SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR APPRECIATION DAY"
• Tru64.org
  • Friday July 26 2002 - "Today is System Administrator Appreciation Day"
• WinBeta.org
• BigAdmin.com (Sun Microsystems) - July 2002 "MOTD"
• CNN Headline News - July 26 2002 - Robin Meade - (need video clip)
• TECH TV (Cable TV)
  • "The Screen Savers" - Thu July 25 2002 - (need video clip)
• TECH TV (Cable TV)
  • "Call For Help" - Fri July 26 2002 - (need video clip)

2001 Press Sightings and Mentions

• Interactive Week - USA
  • July 23 2001 - John Kovalic - DorkTower Cartoon #31
• InfoWorld - USA
  • June 25 2001 - Robert X. Cringely - Notes From The Field
• BBC News - UK
  • July 27 2001 - "Let's hear it for system administrators"
• Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine - USA
  • July 27 2001 - System Administrator Appreciation Day
• The Register - UK
  • Friday, 27 July 2001 - Today is Sysadmin Day