Second-generationl Identity Card - the National ID card.

I finally took pictures at the Security Office, to get my second generation ID card. I having used the plastic ID card for 10 years, since 1995, now I am forced to use the second-generation. I don't like change, so I didn't volunteer to get one, until recently. When we go to update my Kukou booklet, they printed out the booklet, but asked me to upgrade my ID card, otherwise, they will hold the Hukou book. Today, after paying 20 RMB for taking pictures, and I got my Hukou book.

My new ID will be ready after 60 days. As an IT industry professional, I don't understand why it takes so long to get a card. However, it is one of the key advantage to upgrade to the second generation card that the processing and manufacturing time has been reduced from 90 days to 60 days.

The new card will have contact-less IC card embedded in it, so it can be ready by computer system. Waiting to see what will happen after 60 days.

今天差不多一整天在外面，晚上回来居然收到了btsb同学的礼物，强烈地表示感谢啊。

袋子上居然还是宫本武藏和佐佐木小次郎决斗的故事，里面包装还用了清明上河图。

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看到FT的这篇文章，发现了这一点。其实老早前，某人就已经向我演示过这种很厉害的操作了。虽然我日常敲字都可以用Vim完成，但对Office的快捷还是限于C-c和C-v。

从文中看来，我之所以不会这个，是因为还不够忙、活不够多以及期限不够近。其实最近几个月很是处理了一些Excel，要整理其中的格式，并对数据进行很多操作，但很可能Excel并不适合我要求的那些操作，而我又不会写Excel的宏，所以最后经常要拷贝到Vim进行列操作或是正则表达式操作，甚至连Perl都用上了，反正对我来说，学会10行以内的C语法的Perl比再去学Office里的宏要简单得多了。

以前经常有关于GUI和CLI争论，到底是键盘好还是鼠标好？这是个大问题。不过现在答案很明确了，如果你不急，尽可把手挪开去抓鼠标，如果急得不行，资本家都能学会只用键盘。估计Office里应该埋藏着许多不为常人所知的快捷键，除菜单显示的以外还有什么，哪位知道的可以贴点来看看吧？像Vim/emacs本来是为程序员用的编辑器，就因为编代码的需要而不必让手离开主键区，连方向键都不必用（其实早期这个键盘映射也会有问题）。

还见人玩一些游戏，CS，WoW，还有星际啥的，都需要许多键盘操作，其复杂性绝不下于Emacs，许多计算机不是很灵的人士也一样学得快，用得好。看来万事都容易，只要有需求啊。咳，有点想弄个强悍的工作挑战一下自己了。