As someone with a background in programming, it bothers me when your profession gets left out too :-)

Sometimes i think Sys. Admin profession needs a messiah like NNT(for finance) with perhaps the outspokenness/attitude of Zed Shah. That way, there would be a whole lot of increased awareness for the challenges involved in Systems administration.

judging by some of the other comments I think people believe sysadmins can and have been replaced by heroku, aws and such.