And from all that experience we have wound up with complex, rich skill sets derived from decades of hacking (the good kind) every piece of gear put in front of us, as well as from building every kind of systems and subsystems you can think of, along with coding, debugging, tracing, analyzing, documenting and wrangling the barely wrangleable.

In short, we are IT heroes. Hell, we're ... or rather we should be.

But the reality is that despite our unarguable chops and our glorious histories, the Silver Surfers are often looked at as "past it" (or maybe that should be "past IT").

The truth is that we are anything but.