Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Vertical Limit - A Movie about Father

Vertical Limit
The film "Vertical Limit" started with a family of three, the Garrett family climbing. However, accident came without any sign. The father, who was near the top of the cliff, was dragged by the other travelers to a lower altitude than his son, Pete, and daughter, Annie. The two who caused the accident fell down and died. The conflict came as it was too heavy to have three lifting by one rock cleat on a rope. The rock cleat seems to be loosing with the weight. The father asked Peter, who was in the middle, to cut the rope. Peter did it with struggle, but the young saved lives with father's death.

I remembered that I did not watch the whole movie when I first have a look at it. However, I was touched by the end of the movie. Wick looked at Peter, and Peter seems to know what Wick would do. Wick took out a knife to cut the rope, Peter said no, but it was in vain, as Wick had decided. When they started the rescue, climbing, Wick told Peter that what Peter had done was right. If he were his father, he would also cut off the rope by himself if he had a knife.

It is what a father would do. It is what a professional with the heart to consider others would do.

Father is the keyword throughout the movie. Peter's father died in the beginning. Peter didn't climb since his father's death. Annie participated in competition and won award for women climbing. Annie's aim to climb K2 in Pakistan, the world's second highest peak, is to go near to her father. When Annie was trapped in a cavern after the snow storm, Annie said they should not have buried father in ground, but to bring the bone ash to K2.

On the Father's Day, I chatted with my father online and sent blessing messages to my uncles.

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Shortcut to speed up your computer

Here I would like to share with you the shortcuts I often use. It is to reduce the use of mouse and save time with the quick use of keyboard. You may find it somewhat difficult to follow the shortcuts. However, you will find it useful after a few minutes.

I often need to open a folder, and I save it to my favorite by the following steps.
When you face the folder you shall often look into, use Alt + A – A, i.e. to press the keyboard Alt + A at the same time, and then press A (for adding to favorite). You will then face the Add to Favorite dialog box. Click OK to save your favorite folder. The initial character of the folder name will be the related shortcut for you. If the initial word of the folder is not in English, you can add a character that is defined by you for the folder. Since then, you can use Alt + A – P (if you set it as P) when you face the explorer. If you have not opened an explorer yet, here is the short cut for you to open the resource manager. Press Windows + E at the same time. The Windows key is usually beside the Space key. Then use Alt + A – P to open my favorite folder.
Windows + R is to open the Run dialog box. It is the substitute of clicking Start -> Run with the mouse.
Ctrl + N is to open a new file. It is useful on many programs, e.g. Microsoft Word, Excel, IE 6, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Adobe Photoshop. When you face the above programs, just press Ctrl and N at the same time, you will face a blank file. However it is to open a new window with the same URL on IE 6. It is the substitute of clicking File -> New with mouse.
Ctrl + S is to save file. Remember to save the changes while you are editing. It will save you a lot of time and prevent misoperation.
Ctrl + C is to copy the selected content.
Ctrl + V is to paste the copied content just now. This method will include original format.
Alt + E + S + ↑/↓ is to selective pasting. Generally, I will use ↑/↓ to choose Text or Unformatted Text. When copying table to excel, if there is image on the table which you do not want to get, you can click on the menu Edit ->Selective Paste -> Text (Unformatted Tex) or use the shortcut I mention. It will save time if you are copying from web. You will find the content on different unit as you see from the source. This shortcut is also applicable on Word.
Generally speaking, you can use Ctrl + T to open a new Tab on IE 7, FireFox, Safari and enter different URL. However it is different on Maxthon, as it is Ctrl + N.
Alt + Tab(The key beside Q) is to shift among the open windows. When the window is not the one when you press Alt + Tab, you can press Tab again and again to find the right window if you have not released the Alt key yet. If you have already released the Alt key, you can try again using Alt + Tab – Tab if it is on the 3rd rank. It is better for the shift between two windows or among 3 windows.
Ctrl + Tab is to shift among the similar windows or tabs. If the current window is Excel worksheet, it means to shift to another opening Excel window. If you use it on FireFox or Dreamweaver, it will bring you to the next tab. Microsoft Word does not support this shortcut.
Ctrl + I is to make the text italic. Just select the content you want to show italic and use this shortcut.
Ctrl + B is to make the text bold.
Ctrl + F is to find the needed text.
Ctrl + H is the shortcut to replace text.