It’s no-man’s land for tech events today. So as you ponder how you will fill the hours normally blocked out for networking and personal growth, OpenDNS asks you to take a moment and reflect. July is SysAdmin Appreciation Month and here is your chance to nominate your IT guru of choice for the 2008 OpenDNS SysAdmin Awards. Glory and schwag will be awarded to the men and women who fought the hardest to keep the Internet running quickly, cheaply, and dependably. The deadline for submissions is midnight July 22, and if you're worried your co-workers won't remember you, nominate yourself. Tomorrow morning you can keep your thinking hat on and consider The Philosophy of Product at the Silicon Valley American Marketing Associations’ Product Management forum from 8:30 – 9:30 a.m. at Il Fornaio in San Jose.

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