Thanks Mark,

Have no doubt at all that you are exactly who you say you are but I guess I find myself still being a little confused as to why someone who has not felt sufficient interest to actually post here before a week ago and who says

>>My IBM UK pension will still be my single biggest source of income when I retire, and I'm looking at how I can best use/manage/move that, which was the reason I came here a few weeks ago was to see what had changed.<<

... is prepared to fund and run with all the open-ended commitments that might mean a web site that even people who have really benefited from aren't prepared to volunteer for and help with.

See it from my point of view ... it seems puzzling to say the least. No disprespect intended.

GG

cathcam Wrote:
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> As I said in an earlier post, or private message
> to Admin1. While I can't imagine many of the turns
> my career at IBM would take, and the impact it
> would have on my personal life, I couldn't have
> imagined back in 1974 I'd have got so far and
> achieved so much. Almost all of that was due to
> IBM colleagues, most from IBM UK, many now
> retired, but still many at IBM.
>
> When I left IBM I wrote 3-blog posts on my
> penultimate day, about some of the fantastic
> people I'd worked with, who help me both mature,
> grow as a person and who helped me so much. At
> least until a couple of years ago, those could
> still be found inside IBM. While I couldn't have
> seen how things worked out, what I have learned
> over time is that little things matter, being able
> to help where it's not a big deal, can be a big
> deal.
>
> You can pretty much find anything you want about
> me online, as I've posted I've been involved in
> numerous web efforts, including right back in the
> mid-90's doing an early IBM UK, EMEA websites,
> working with the early IBM pioneers of Java(yes,
> IBM..) etc. I've learned a huge amount and for me,
> if there is something I can do simply, at little
> risk to me, then I'd like to help out. Much of my
> early IBM contributions can be found in the
> Internet Archive aka waybackmachine.
>
> http://about.me/markcathcart