Re: Erick Kain
Subject: Re: Erick Kain
From: Clark Robinson <robinsonchicago@gmail.com>
Date: 7/5/10, 08:28
To: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>

I have been reading most everything he wrote on T/S since February, and I really like the guy.  After getting this e-mail I took a look at the site where he currently blogs, http://www.ordinary-gentlemen.com/ , and they look like a group that might be open to having Project PM widgets on certain members' blogs. 

Here is another instance of good work by Kain that was on that site: http://www.ordinary-gentlemen.com/2009/11/the-evolution-of-blogging-an-interview-with-charles-johnson/

Kain is really prolific; on T/S he was always right up there with Caitlin Kelly and Charles Johnson in frequency of posting, but his posts were generally longer than Charles'.  (And he never had that desperate to write about anything, anything, quality that Ms. Kellys' work sometimes has.)

So yeah, go for him and hope he's still interested (if I recall his e-mail, he sounded kind of perplexed by the Africa Project).

The piece below about Grayson's proposal referenced http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/the-pentagons-broken-bookkeeping-01945/ which made me think of something I should share with you.  This Defense Industry Daily article reports that the Pentagon has 4,150 different systems. At Social Security we were in much better shape, I think in the low hundreds of electronic systems, and my colleagues were working hard to build interfaces. We had at least one system which involved distributed software and it had a major problem, which was what I wanted to share with you: every system requires periodic updating of the software, and the newer the systems the more frequent and urgent the new releases. Software updates to the distributed system required that every copy of the program be updated. So, we need to make sure that the widget programming automatically finds updates and installs them, or at least signals the reader to do so which is definitely a less desirable solution. Again, I have no idea if this is possible without a server.

In my experience, Adobe Flash has this problem, too.





On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 12:42 AM, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:
Based on his latest piece, I'm thinking we should bring him on.

http://article.nationalreview.com/437200/lets-cut-defense-spending/e-d-kain?page=1

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