yesthattom | A dedication for my book

TPoSaNA doesn't have a dedication page. We wanted to have a page where we each put our dedication. Christine and I couldn't think of what to say. I think it was mostly because we had left it to the end and we were scurrying to meet our deadlines. Nobody can think during those times. (Heck, the somewhat emotional last chapter was written months earlier.)

However, today I was emailing with a previous boss about the book and he said

"Every time I look up from my desk and see the spine of TPSNA on my bookcase I get a rush of pride in your accomplishment and I bet most of the folks [in the sysadmin team at Bell Labs] feel the same way."

That's when I realized that how much I am indebted to my co-workers at Bell Labs. We all "grew up" a lot during those years and the book (or the 50% that I wrote) is very much a recording of what we learned together. They are all thanked in the Acknowledgements section (and all got a free copy, of course). If we get a chance to make such a change, I will add a dedicate page to the book and my dedication will be "To my co-workers from the system administration team at Bell Labs, who are as much a part of this book as it is a part of me."