Personal safety has never worried me particularly but of late I have been impressed at the range of personal alarms on the market. These range from pepper sprays, high decibel screechers and hand held sirens.

I would favour a micro Uzi for use upon any would be attacker but if I were to try to arm my girlfriend for her protection thusly I would be endangered far before any potential attacker may decide to approach her with any evil intent - hence I prefer the deterrent method.

UZI or personal alarm, the choice is yours.

I quite like the look of the unobtrusive wristwatch styles personal alarm, shown right as in a sticky situation you could be sure have access to it, like in the event of attack or even stuck in a nasty avalanche.

The range of personal alarms is impressive and I certain that one of these could help you out as a victim of crime.

Always looking to justify that next purchase I have been looking into getting a good bit of Sat Nav installed in me Fiesta - probably doubling the value of the car.

Looking at the beautifully designed TomTom website I see that they are producing a lovely XL version with a high quality widescreen touchscreen.

These little beauties will help you find your way in almost any country in on the planet.

Now, as I have considered here previoulsy a portable global positioning system can’t really be said to be necessary for my sedentary lifestyle.

It is either that or for my TomTom Sat Nav GPS needs I shall have to look into hooking up my Sony Ericsson M600i to a bluetooth gps transmitter.

But consider that they can house a 20Gig mp³ collection, they’ll do me in car handsfree, they will talk to me when I am alone in the car… I need one, I want to flick its switch and turn the baby on……

kind of checking whether or not the Sony Ericsson will update my blog.

Proof is in the pud.

what is the best way to learn to type?

I have been using qwerty keyboards for most of my life. True I took a few years away from such things, but I was fiddling with touchsensitive keypads on a Sinclair ZX-81 well over a quarter of a century ago and have used keyboards all day every day for the best part of the last 10 years……

So can I touch type? well here goes
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It appears not..

Recently I have been experimenting with a split, ergonomic Microsoft keyboard, this design kind of forces one to keep hands on either side of the keyboard and has helped me make some progress.

However quite the nicest idea to date has to be the no key keyboard (oxymoronic typing?). This little beauty has no numbers on it at all, so pretty soon you will have to be touch typing as there is nothing to look at.

Is is sad really that we dont see too much variety in such things, sad that I can’t type after all these years………