Your Rut

"Get into a rut early: Do the same processes the same way. Accumulate idioms. Standardize. The only difference (!) between Shakespeare and you was the size of his idiom list - not the size of his vocabulary." Alan J. Perlis

http://www-pu.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/users/klaeren/epigrams.html

Things to Program

"We will never run out of things to program as long as there is a single program around. " - Alan J. Perlis

http://www-pu.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/users/klaeren/epigrams.html

Programs That Learn

"When we write programs that "learn", it turns out we do and they don't. " - Alan J Perlis

http://www-pu.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/users/klaeren/epigrams.html

Data Structures & Functions

"It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than 10 functions on 10 data structures. " - Alan J. Perlis

http://www-pu.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/users/klaeren/epigrams.html

Norvigs Law

Norvig's Law: Any technology that surpasses 50% penetration will never double again (in any number of months).

http://norvig.com/norvigs-law.html

Windows & Outlook - Hotkeys & Shortcuts

Increase your Windows & Outlook Productivity with HotKeys and Shortcuts

WINDOWS Alt+tab Switch from one window to another - press Alt+tab to show a list of open windows - hold Alt+press tab repeatedly to select a window, - release Alt to switch to the window you selected
Ctrl+a Selects or highlights all of the document
Ctrl+b Bold - applies bold to highlighted characters
Ctrl+c Copy - copies highlighted text to the Clipboard
Ctrl+d Font change - opens font dialog box
Ctrl+e Edit mode (Lotus Notes)
Ctrl+end Jump to end of open document
Ctrl+f Find - displays Find dialog box
Ctrl+h Replace - open Replace dialog box
Ctrl+home Jump to beginning of document
Ctrl+i Italics - applies italics to highlighted characters
Ctrl+k Clear all character styles (bold, italics, etc.)
Ctrl+l Link - displays Link properties dialog box
Ctrl+m Mail - opens Mail window
Ctrl+p Print
Ctrl+r Reload current document into Edit window
Ctrl+right or left arrow key jump one word to the right or left
Ctrl+s Save current document
Ctrl+t Apply fixed width character format to selected text
Ctrl+u Underline - applies underline to highlighted text
Ctrl+up or down arrow key jump one paragraph up or down
Ctrl+v Paste text from Clipboard at the insertion point
Ctrl+w Close current document
Ctrl+x Cut out highlighted text & place a copy on the clipboard
Ctrl+z Undo last action
Esc Close a dialog box without performing any action
Shift+arrow key Highlight text
Shift+space Non-breaking space, to insert

OUTLOOK Alt+s - saves and closes
Ctrl+shift+k - opens new task
Ctrl+shift+n - opens new note
Ctrl+shift+m - opens new email message
Ctrl+shift+a - opens new appointment
Ctrl+f - forwards as an email message any current email/contact/calendar entry/task/note
Ctrl+shift+e - creates a new email folder
Ctrl+shift+v - moves emails between folders
Ctrl+shift+c - opens new contact
Ctrl+shift+i - moves to the email inbox
Ctrl+shift+q - opens new meeting request
Ctrl+shift+f - opens window for advanced find
Alt+g - brings up category menu when creating tasks. Type the first letter of the category, hit the space bar and then enter (to select the category without using the mouse)

Web Reference: www.davidco.com/tips_tools/tip45.html

Photos: US-Fish Public Domain Library