The executive director at AIG's Financial Products unit hid his blog behind a firewall last night, after we linked to it yesterday. Fortunately, we had already grabbed his latest entry.

Here it is:

For 15 years, I have helped tend to the portfolio of positions making up the whole of the business. As a member of the support team, I am still, for as long as I am here, responsible for all of the practical technical things - computers, data, lights, air conditioning - that keep the place running. The job is highly technical, spanning multiple disciplines (hardware, software, an understanding of the business, familiarity with multiple classes of market data, facilities management, disaster recovery and business continuity, the list goes on) and the business critical nature of the portfolio has meant that I have been, for the past 15 years, on call 24x7x365, for any operational problem which could affect the business.

And for many years, the …