On 01/02/07, Larry Medina <[log in to unmask]> wrote:


> after I copy "stuff" (a technical term I learned from an M$ engineer)


Actually "stuff" became an accepted RM technical term when an article on
this topic was published in the RMAA's Informa Quarterly a few years back.
The article is available from

http://members.ozemail.com.au/~sanders/articles.html

scroll down to "Towards a unified theory of stuff". It discusses the need
for a generic term encapsulating all the things we put in our databases, and
hypothesises the ability to predict the content of stuff not yet created.

And of course the author is suitably modest, if not tongue in cheek.

Glenn

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and they'd agreed, I would have signed it "Harry Peck and Co and
Glenn". Or whatever. But I haven't, so I didn't.

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