I'm proud of him
I don't say much about my brother and his family for a couple of reasons. One, they value their privacy and rightly so. I stepped over that line on this site a few years ago and was sorry about that, so I"m a little gun shy when putting up anything with his name in it. Second, we live in totally different worlds. We just have different perspectives on things and that's just fine. Well, it's fine so long as he understands that I'm always right.
However, I'm going to post something about him today because he is still my older brother and I'm proud of him. It may seem like nothing, but he was interviewed for an article in Information Week. I knew about it before, but this morning a co-worker comes over to me and says "do you someone named Chris Ginn?" I said yes, but why are you asking? He said because he was reading Information Week and found an article in it where they talked to Chris and since our last name is somewhat rare, wondered if I knew him. I said, "yeah, I know him pretty well. I grew up with him." So, it was a pretty cool little exchange.
This is no secret since it's in a nationally published article so I don't feel any qualms about posting it. Chris works for H&R Block. He was lead engineer on a document management project and they interviewed him about it. I know what you're thinking. Computer geek, working for a tax company. Sounds like a barrel of laughs, right? It's actually worse. It was an open-source project. Yeah, uber-geek kind of stuff. But, he made it into the article and I'm proud of him. It's not every day someone from our little town, much less someone from my own family, gets interviewed for a national magazine. Click on the image below for the scanned article.
He's also got his name on a patent recently too. I've got a link to that somewhere, but can't find it right now.
Chris, a special message for you. Don't get a big head about your new media career. If you will recall, Grandpa Chuck was in an advertisement for Great Plains drills quite a few years back. A quote and an actual picture. So until you get your picture published, Grandpa Chuck is still the family media star.