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re: The trick -- which I'm managing less well as it grows -- is not so much
to store it all, as to flag it for appropriate retrieval.
Possibly this is a "not seeing the forest for the trees" problem. Here I
suggest that there is little requirement for a complicated database system.
Rather, think about the WWW--it's the biggest, baddest, best database there
is, and you can do that too. That is, why not make yourself an html page
that's really just an index in an order that works for you ... but contains
hypertext links to the material indexed? Hypertext links are one of the 2-3
greatest inventions of the 20th century. The surface of their usefulness is
only a little bit scratched to date.
IPCC 01, the IEEE International Professional Communication Conference,
October 24-27, 2001 at historic La Fonda in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.
CALL FOR PAPERS OPEN UNTIL MARCH 15. http://ieeepcs.org/2001/
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