Stand in the place where you live
Now face north
Think about direction
Wonder why you haven’t before
I’m now much more location aware since buying a GPS receiver, not that I ever used to feel particularly lost but it’s comforting to know my exact location to 14 decimal places 
I’ve always had a bit of a geeky thing for satnav but many of the commercial systems are way too expensive. I found a cheapo GPS receiver for less than £40 and with my ageing P900 and a couple of shareware apps I’m away!
I’ve found there’s a whole array of geo-aware services out there. Check out Flickr geotagging and geocaching.com for starters.
I’ve also updated my WordPress metadata plugin to recognise lat/long tags. So to see where I am from time to time check out the geotag links in my posts. I’ve signed up for a Google Map key so one of my Xmas scripting projects is to create some maps for this weblog.
