Monday, August 14, 2006: It's Alarming How Charming I Feel.

I can finally just leave my seat post with the bike when I secure it at the office.





Ok, mini-review: It works as advertised. It is vibration sensitive, so just lightly knocking the down-tube on which it's installed will set it off.

Not, however, if you knock elsewhere on the bike -- it's pretty much location specific -- the rest of the frame absorbes the shock.

The alarm runs at 110db, which echoing up and down 22 storeys of stairs, makes a hell of a racket.

You can set auto-armament, which arms the alarm after a preset elapsed time of no vibration - from 15 seconds up to about 2 and half minutes - handy if you're forgetful, not so handy if u're at a traffic light and forgot to disarm the feature and have your ipod on.

It has an anti-false alarm feature, which sounds up to 7 warning beeps if it is accidentally moved before blasting the siren.

Now if only I can just get it to talk.