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Life on the Edge o f the Information Highway.
As our constant readers know by now, your
beloved editor, and the Upper Left Edge are on the
Net. That is our web address, up there,below the
masthead. It is about to change and get simpler. It
w ill soon become upper left edge.com. The reason
is that the folks that helped us build our web site are
now helping us build a 'virtual domain'. No, we are
not really sure what means either, though they have
tried to explain and speak very slowly. Some folks
look askance when we start to talk about things like
e-mail and web sites, and chat rooms, and all that
'net' stuff. "The Upper Left Edge is, after all, a
small paper that is pasted up by hand and is a 'hand
to mouth' effort staffed by mostly volunteers. So,
what is it doing out there w ith B ill Gates and
Amazon.com?" W ell, this paper began as a result
o f "G u lf War One". It tried to be an activist voice
for peace and possibilités in an information
enviroment that was closed to regular folk.
Remeber? It was a C N N war. Video Violence at it's
best/worste. So we printed the paper to get an
alternative message into the hands o f the most
people for the least money. Since then we have
managed to get a 'message' out to folks every month
for cornin' on seven years, it's fun. You can pick it
up in a lot o f places. New York, D C.,The City,
Seattle, Eugene, even Cannon Beach.
For the last year we have been on the 'net'. The
reason they call it "surfing" the net, we think, is
because it is dangerous and fun. The fun part is that
there is so much from so many. The dangerous part
is you are kind of'alone out there' So, we are now
offering all sorts o f s tu ff to advertisers, readers, and
contributors, that might help A fter all, it's just a
typewriter, a telephone and a television
recently read in a brochure produced by the
Better Business Bureau that 80% o f materials
tiled are never retrieved for reuse. Armed w ith
this fact, I began my annual file purging. Living
and working in small quarters forces me to perform
this task each winter once I have completed end o f
the year reports and taxes.
I decided this year to calculate the percentage
and weight o f unnecessary papers filed. I set
aside one morning to complete the task estimating
that as a professional in this field, 1 would only
have to remove approximately 20% o f my files
A fte r all, 1 do make my livng advising others on
how to be resource efficient
This year I decided to be a bit more ruthless than
in the past by including inform ation 1 saved to assist
me in w riting I have saved articles and publications
for years to use as references when detailing a
project. These were the first to be purged. What
good is inform ation over 18 months old...
W hile I was w ell below the average, I was
aghast to see that 40% o f all the materials (23 lbs)
1 had saved and filed were unnecessary. The main
source o f unused materials 1 have accumulated
came from professional organizations' newsletters,
announcements and publication lists. In analyzing
these, I found that they were very repetitive and the
volume o f those saved hampered reuse.
Hard copies o f correspondence that I also had on
disc ranked second. This year I am im plementing a
few ideas that may assist anyone in cleaning up and
reorganizing their filin g systems:
I Set aside professional publications for a month
and when you review them, check to see i f you are
receiving new and different inform ation in each o f
them I was able to determine that two publications
I received were redundant, and called to remove my
name from their m ailing lists. This did not take any
extra time; I just had to review them together as
opposed to when they arrived in the mail. Not only
was paper saved, but I also saved money for fees.
One organization whose meetings I find useful was
w illin g to give me a reduced membership fee by
elim inating me from their m ailing list.
DUEBER’S
2. Start a disc for saving correspondence only.
This enables you to retrieve and copy letters when
necessary without having to scroll through a long
directory to find that correspondence
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3 I f you need to save facts and inform ation for
research use, file it w ith a dale on the folder
Then when you purge your files, it w ill be easier
to do To help estimate whether you truly use this
material, place a check mark on the file each time
you use it over the next year This w ill help you
decide i f you are saving the right type o f
information.
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4 Begin routing materials to others Do three
people need to have the current copy o f every
publication or magazine in your office? A fter
everyone has seen it, file it in a central location
for future use
5 Why print e-mail? Save it i f necessary in an
archive message
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http://www. recycle, net/recyde/
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BASEBALL
Harry Caray
19210-1998
The phone message from John Buckley said simply
that it was a sad day for Cubbies, I larry Caray was
dead
We had read about his Valentines day collapse, and
feared the worst, he was after all, at least seventy
seven, had already sulTeied one stroke and was know
for his fondness for Budweiser Last year we
suggested that you might want to give the children in
your life a chance to see Harry sing "Take me out to
the ballgame." before it was too late, we hope you
suceeded I f you did they w ill share a memory o f
baseball and America that will never be again
Something akin to seeing the last Dodo Not too
flattering a comparison, but apt A lot o f folks
thought Harry should have become extinct long ago,
with his phlem clogged voice, his big black glasses,
and his endless birthday greetings for fans and visiting
car dealers and bartenders He was an echo o f a time
past But we loved him
One o f our prize posessions is a "Shoe" Sunday
cartoon strip showing The Professor and Skylar at a
Cubs game during the seventh inning stretch, and they
sing, "root, root, root for the Cubbies, i f they don't
win it's the same " In the corner is written, "Holy
Cow
and it's signed Harry Caray We sent it to
Wrigley field, he signed it and sent it back He did
that a lot for fans He did other s tu ff for them and
with them, because he was one o f them He truely
loved the game, and it broke his heart, and made him
cranky when players, management or the media
showed disrespect for the fans The fans give their
dollars and their dreams to the game, and Harry knew
it No doubt, the Cubs w ill dedicate this season to
their now silent voice', and his grandson Chip will sit
in the chair where Harry sat, and we well might hear
the echo o f'it might be, it could, be it is
Home Run'1' or a third generation version o f'H o ly
C ow 1' But, i f by the magic o f karma, this is the next
year’ that all fans, especially Cubs fans dream of, and
the "peremal also-rans" (as the Cubs were disetibed in
a New York Times crossword puzzle lately), get to
the last game o f the World Series, and don't fold, and
are ahead at the last out By God,Chip or Arnie or
someone better put on a tape o f Harry , in all his glory,
veiling, at the top o f his lungs."Cubs W in1” Cubs W in!'
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