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For years I’ve been trying to point out to my organization that my efforts at archiving have met a stone wall. That is, I tell the business that we need to archive this stuff and they all nod their collective heads and agree that this is a fearsome problem that someone should do something about.

Then they implement new projects and devote money to building new distribution centers and more resources are turned to other, higher priorities. I understand that restraining database growth is not a high priority. That’s fine. The business sets these priorities and they can’t all be critical all the time.

Unfortunately, one of my numerous bosses recently had to go to the president to ask for nearly half a million dollars form more disk space. The president pointed out that the entire need for the request is IT’s fault because someone hasn’t been archiving like they should have.

And its true. Its exactly what I’ve been saying for years, but this time it came from the guy who signs the checks. I’m not in any trouble for not doing enough, but it will clearly come down to me to put together a plan to address the growth of our database. In addition to trying to finalize my efforts to get Sales and Distribution archiving in to production I’m going to have to do a comprehensive review of where all our data is and how to remove it, store it and access it.

I didn’t really NEED another responsibility but there’s nobody else here who can do it. Its also an opportunity to increase the visibility of my accomplishments.

This is the most positive way I can look at it.

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They’ve got a “class” that can be hard to come by in other news outlets:

From Nightline’s 4-27 daily email (tonight’s show is on the Cheney Supreme Court case):

Now I want to tell you about this Friday’s broadcast. We’re going to do something different, something that we think is important. Friday night, we will show you the pictures, and Ted will read the names, of the men and women from the armed forces who have been killed in combat in Iraq. That’s it. That will be the whole broadcast. Nightline has been reporting on the casualties under the heading of “Line of Duty.”

But we realized that we seemed to just be giving numbers. So many killed in this incident, so many more in that attack. Whether you agree with the war or not, these men and women are serving, are putting their lives on the line, in our names. We think it is important to remember that those who have paid the ultimate price all have faces, and names, and loved ones. We thought about doing this on Memorial Day, but that’s a time when most media outlets do stories about the military, and they are generally lost in the holiday crush of picnics and all. We didn’t want this broadcast to get lost. Honestly, I don’t know if people will watch this for thirty seconds, or ten minutes, or at all. That’s not the point. We think this is important. These men and women have earned nothing less.

One point, we are not going to include those killed in non-hostile incidents. There’s no disrespect meant here, we just don’t have enough time in this one broadcast. But they are no less deserving of our thoughts. I hope that you will join us for at least part of “The Fallen” on Friday.

Leroy Sievers and the Nightline Staff

Nightline Offices

ABCNEWS Washington D.C.

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