That's an awfully clean collocation bay. The ones I frequent have cement block walls, drafty HVAC, chain link cages, coffee cups and candy bar wrapper strewn about, and some jackass outside server sitter admin, curled up in the fetal position in a cage across the way, more sub wrappers or pizza boxes.

That's a Getty stock image, from a series called "Red." Hope you paid for it.

It kinda pierces the hope that there really is a hot sysadmin-type babe like that out there. There's gotta be a few though, right? Keep hopin'!

Gotta love that understated modest elegance of a real, competent tech gal!

why are we kidding ourselves? she was photoshopped in.

Here's to the models for stock images, standing in for the unwashed and scowling trolls that keep the machines running.

During the winters which I've spent in Maine, I was always in awe of their ability to keep the power going. We were literally the last house before the seasonal closing, a mile from any other place and there seemed to always be three foot of snow on the ground, but the electricity kept flowing.

It's been years since I've wintered in Maine and the holiday weather is a little warmer here, but I agree that hats off to the power companies and to those who keep it going, especially in the non-forgiving locales.

They're even lined up in order of importance. Pretty girl first, old fat man blurred out at the back...

and no credit for ripping off an apple ad either?