Foreword
My life would be vastly simpler if I were not awash in data.
My PDA is bursting at the seams with lists, spreadsheets, schedules, and documents that collectively enumerate, tabulate, quantify, and qualify my entire life (it's quite humbling to realize just how much of my life can fit in my shirt pocket). In turn, that PDA gets synchronized with my laptop, whose 16-gig drive is packed to capacity not just with applications but also with yet more lists, spreadsheets, schedules, and documents. My laptop is but one node in a local network of about a dozen machines that run my home and my office, and in each of them—no surprise—you'll find more lists, spreadsheets, schedules, and documents. Some of this data is unstructured—I'm not so driven ...
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