THE WELCH COMPANY
440 Davis Court #1602
San Francisco, CA 94111-2496
415 781 5700


Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 22:48:53 -0800

03 00050 61 02031301



Mr. Garold L. Johnson
dynalt@dynalt.com
Dynamic Alternatives
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Subject:   SDS and Purple numbers

Dear Gary,

Thanks for your letter with links to a location with files showing how you have added links directly to anchors in order to facilitate capturing the link address, applying Eugene Kim's description of "Purple Numbers."
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Now that I see what you are doing, my sense is that this doesn't look great, but the additional links add usefulness. This makes Knowledge Space, as set out in POIMS slightly easier for people to apply quickly. Facile application is important.
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Is the file at....

http://www.dynalt.com/SDS/fix_sds_01.pl

...the code that adds purple numbers, per Eugene's development work shown at....
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http://www.dynalt.com/SDS/purple.html

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The thing I am most impressed with is your initiative and determination to use various ingredients, and some how, some way add value, rather than just sit back and wait for lightening to strike.
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The next thing that impresses me is that you have recognized a powerful idea about building a DKR. You are not waiting around to rely on somebody else. Each of us are responsible for managing whatever material we rely on to take action. SDS provides a fairly simple way to do this, but it does not intend that Rod's records on the Internet are to be relied on by anyone else, rather other folks, like Rod, need a way to grab up and cast in stone what Rod or anybody else sends out and preserve it to the extent it influences action. Why not just rely on Rod's stuff? Because it may go away tomorrow or next year. But the need to understand causation continues.
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So, you have taken Rod's stuff and processed it just like Rod does to everything else, then you can cite it as you wish to support the action you take and urge others to take. I am pretty sure that is the way human memory works, and you have demonstrated on dynalt how to augment that process to avoid meaning drift.
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It is a very big step.

Anyway I am grateful you are fussing around with SDS, struggling to refine and advance a core set of capabilities.

Look forward to your letter after this weekend on correlating scope services for Com Metrics with your Boeing experience, per your other letter this evening.
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Rod

Sincerely,

THE WELCH COMPANY



Rod Welch
rowelch@attglobal.net



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Post Script

Sending a copy to Eugene to let him know of discussions about his stuff.
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Copy to:

  1. Kim, Eugene, eekim@eekim.com



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