It doesn’t take much activity in the realm of Twitter to find that these acronyms (ECM, CMS & WCM see the Glossary at bottom of page) produce some strong opinions at 140 characters per post. There are arguments to exclude programs or include SaaS solutions under the CMS umbrella. There are polemics about some mainstream systems like Sharepoint.
Maurice “Hank” Greenberg is heading a new corporation, C.V. Starr & Co, Inc. This is important because Hank is the man who led A.I.G. to the heights of our recent and still impacting recession on the wheels of massive CDO securitization and CDS contracts. If you’ve forgotten, the Bush administration agreed to bail out A.I.G. in September 2008 to the tune of $85 billion which was then re-negotiated by that administration in November to a $40 billion disbursement from the TARP with another $60 line of credit from the Federal Reserve. By March of 2009 the Obama administration had increased the bailout to A.I.G. up to $150 billion and A.I.G. wrote down some $60 billion in a first quarter loss.
In a Reuter’s article, a lawyer is quoted as saying,
I don’t understand why it is in the taxpayers’ best interests for us to be punitive in regard to TARP recipients.
I believe in financial responsibility in several ways, one of which is giving funds to endeavors that benefit others. One area I evaluate my giving as being poorer than I want it to be is international giving. Someone mentioned World Vision as an international agency and, after checking it on Charity Navigator (Philanthropy.com’s article about CN’s evaluation methods), I can understand the concern some folks have about the salary of World Vision’s president. There are valid evaluations and arguments for either viewpoint (he should/should not earn that salary working for a non-profit/NGO) but regardless of those comments I’m still considering whether to utilize that agency as a method to give internationally.
As most of my friends know, I’m a storage junkie. I’m addicted to storing every digital scrap I get. Currently my main home computer has about 2.5Tb; yeah, that’s terabytes with another 650Gb of storage shared on the network in a Network Attached Storage (NAS) unit. My wife’s computer has less but still I think it has about 250Gb storage.
My current NAS is 95% full and the lack of free space is slowing down access (I’m sure there are some badly fragmented files but I can’t defrag it until I free up more space).
I’m considering the following storage options: