My Logitech Wave keyboard broke a few months ago and since I have been through two other keyboards.  I was told that the keyboard I like and have always used is no longer available in South Africa and in fact is not being manufactured anymore.  Fortunately, that has not proved to be totally accurate – it is available on Amazon.com and I have ordered myself two.  One of the problems for people like me is that although I can type fairly quickly, at about 30 words a minute, I do it with two fingers.  So, the keyboard that I have at the moment, which has won all sorts of awards, and which is called the Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic Desktop does not suit me.  It has a nice gap between the letters TGB on the left hand side and YHN on the right-hand side of the keyboard and because I use two fingers, and this is designed for a professional typist, who can type all the letters without looking at the keyboard, I continually hit the wrong letters!  It is also a perfect example of the sexist way that we were taught when we were young and that is that young ladies at school got taught how to type, and I was not.  I know that I could teach myself now, but basics like that, including the managing programmes like Excel and Word, are best developed when you are at school, and I am somewhat surprised that more schools don’t offer typing as a compulsory subject.  There has always been the approach that the academically gifted students do not need to do typing, whereas in fact you could argue that they are going to be writing more books, designing programmes and having to do more typing than almost anybody else and they probably need it more than the kids who are not getting straight A’s.  Either way, my marks at school were pretty shocking, so the very least I could have done would have been to learn how to type at 60 words per minute and not just the 30 I manage now!