A Gurgling Fountain at Via Argentina

Every neighborhood should have a park.  Parks are wonderful open spaces where you can go out and stretch your legs, read your favorite book, smell the flowers, listen to the birds chirping, take your pets out for a walk and so many other pleasant activities.  Regretfully, urban planners often forget about the importance of parks and erase them from their urban development designs.  Cities are becoming more and more like huge concrete jungles.

An example of a charming park in the middle of a congested street in Panama City, Panama is the Andrés Bello Park. Besides having nice green lawns, tennis courts, benches, flowers, children’s playgrounds, it has a beautiful gurgling  fountain.

During a recent visit to this park on a quiet Sunday morning, I could hear the gurgling sound of the fountain many feet away.  It was music to my ears.

This is the seductive  fountain at Parque Andrés Bello.  Here we go.

Photograph of the seductive fountain at Parque Andrés Bello surrounded by tropical plants. You can see a young man reading a newspaper towards your right. (Credit: Omar Upegui R.)

Another view of the fountain showing the lush vegetation of the park. (Credit: Omar Upegu R.)

A closer look at the fountain with its refreshing gush of water at the top. (Credit: Omar Upegu R.)

Picture of the fountain with the mesmerizing motion of water around it. (Credit: Omar Upegui R.)

Picture of the jet of crystaline water at the top of the fountain. (Credit: Omar Upegui R.)

Photograph depicting the whirlpool of water. The fountain seemed to have a life of its own moving endlessly. (Credit: Omar Upegui R.)

Photograph of the water cascading down the fountain. (Credit: Omar Upegui R.)

Photograph showing the base of the fountain and its clear blue pool at the bottom. (Credit: Omar Upegui R.)

I can’t explain how exciting it was to photograph this fountain at the Andrés Bello Park. If you listen closely, you can hear the fountain sing.  Good Day.

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Enhancing Your Productivity Using the Mouse

One of the most common activities while using a computer is copy and pasting.  Hundreds and hundreds of seconds are consumed in this mundane computer task, specially using the computer mouse.

Recently I read a comment on LifeHacker.com written byShakespeareGeek which tackles very well this issue of wasting  valuable time while copying and pasting text.

“People don’t often realize how much time they waste during the day with their cutting and pasting. I’ve had people tell me that their job consists of selecting something from here, and copying it over here, 100 times a day, and that they’ve gotten pretty fast at it. Then I show them whatever the local macro language is and they get to see what fast really means. Excel’s particularly great at demonstrating this.

Ages ago when I got married I watched the clerk at the registry type my first name into a form, then grab the mouse, click the pointer into the last name field, type my last name, and so on. I told her that if she hit tab it would do that for her automatically and she’d never take hands from keyboard. She stared in awe at this new knowledge and said Wait til I show everyone in the office this!”

This article includes several tips to highlight text with your mouse which I consider very useful if you’re an intense computer user.

One of the tips I particularly liked, is highlighting words instead of characters.  This is how it works:

“Instead of simply clicking and dragging your mouse, double-click the first or last word you want to highlight and hold down the mouse button on the second click; then just drag the mouse as usual when selecting text and voilà—you’re selecting whole words rather than individual characters.

I’ve tested this method with Firefox, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Word, Wordpad, and Notepad—but it’s probably an OS default, since it works in virtually any program I can think of. You can get Word to do the same thing by default—without double-clicking—via the Edit tab in the Options dialog, but it’s an all or nothing affair. The option is checked by default; turning it off gives you greater flexibility for text selection once you know this trick.”

There are several other tricks which you might find useful.  I’m sure some of you will find these tips very convenient for your computing activities.  Who knows, you might get a pay raise for increasing your productivity at the office.  Just let your boss knows about it.     Good Day.

Source:  How to Master Text Highlighting With Your Mouse - LifeHacker.com

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Photograph of the Day: Don’t Fence Me In

Photograph of the fence around Parque Andrés Bello at Via Argentina to protect the park against intruders at night. (Credit: Omar Upegui R.)

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