Sound recording and external keyboard

I tried to record some audio from the television last night. I used NoteEverything and made a 'sound note'. It worked but I didn't have the tablet close enough to the tv. Recording my voice speaking directly at the side of the tablet worked well. This may be useful for recording quick verbal notes to myself.

I've been using Swype with a stylus and I seem to be doing reasonably well. I am at about the same speed swyping as I am using the android keyboard with my finger. The stylus is a necessity for me using Swype. I have a couple of spare stylus from my Palm, which are the same length as the included stylus, but they are slightly larger in diameter and weigh more. I stick my Palm stylus in the loop on the tablet case and it stays put around the house.

I hooked up an external USB keyboard to the USB adapter cable today. The USB adapter cable is the short cable (I wondered what that was for!). The USB keyboard worked immediately. There are no settings or messages which need to be acknowledged. The number and symbols work fine. The arrow keys work to move the cursor. The following keys did not work on my external USB keyboard: ` ~ Caps Lock, Control, ALT. The numeric keypad did not work. Because the Control key doesn't work, I was not able move the cursor word by word, using CTR arrow. One strange thing is that when I press the End key, my tablet went into sleep mode!
Now that I know the external USB keyboard works, I may look into one of the roll up keyboards that I have seen on the net. It is definitely useful for entering large amounts of text.