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>Steven writes:
<<
Do any of you out there use any computer program to organize your
thought on
this subject, sort of the way that Pirsig does on index cards? If
any of you
have such a program, I'd certainly like to hear about it.
>>
>Sorry Steven, no computer program. But on the issue of organizing
thoughts,
I have composed a grid to help me make sense of the morality
discussion. It
is simply a chart made of 16 boxes. On the vertical axis, I have
labeled each
row with the four static levels (intellect at top!). On the
horizontal
collumns I have also labelled them with the four levels. The
vertical axis is
the "dominant value", the horizontal is "dominated value".
Microsoft Access. You can set up forms for text entry, you can hold all of
your pieces in a table according to PROGRAM, and query your entries, whether
they are text, formula, image, sound, Quicktimes, movs, html etc. Its
extremely customizable. When you buy it, it comes with sample databases,
forms for data entry (In your case probably text and diagrams) Tables
(spread sheet like "containers" for your data, reports for printing out
results of your queries. An example: Say you want to archive your music
collection. (this would be very time consuming, but doing it with maybe
five CDs is a good way to learn the features.) you can set up tables to
organize your music by music type, artist, album title, song titles, song
lyrics, scan in the album artwork, make small sound clips of songs etc. The
power of Access is in the Query function, its sort of like using search
engine, but you can query by much more sophisticated criteria. Say you want
to sort through your PROGRAM entries by these criteria: Entries located in
CRIT and TRASH that include the words or phrases social, moral, "Mechanics
of Quanta" morality, quality, BUT exclude entries that contain the words or
phrases Marxism, "The Tao of Poo" and poppycock, BUT include intries that
contain BOTH the words Marxism and poppycock. The combinations are pretty
much endless.
Access can also be used with the web, so all entries to the Lila squad could
be organized and "accessible" in this fashion, although the Query function
would be limited by the creativity of the person who designed the query
form.
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