Gun Caundle wrote:

Send him a Ubuntu CD and recommend he uses Evolution to avoid stuff-ups like this in future.

I understood that he was running Mandrake (unless he has changed his distro recently).

You did mean, "Send him a Slackware CD and recommend he uses Kontact to avoid stuff-ups like this in future" Didn't you??? <g>

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Michael Honeyfield wrote:

I am not sure how that will help him respond to emails and be more orginised.

Back OT:

Is it likely he will reschedule?

Y e a h . . . . I'm inclined to think that it's more likely a cultural issue (a lot like Fijian time) than what organiser he uses.

For less than $ 10.00 (including hardware), I find a Collins dairy very useful for keeping appointments. As Bruce knows, I'd rather spend money on something that is going to make money like another DL-380, or towards a decent laptop than one of those PDAs, fancy cellphones (that has only 10% of it's functionality as a phone), or whatever (that may synchronise with whatever diary on your desktop).

I guess, without generating yet another enternal thread, what I am saying is that if you're not a fundamentally organised person, these programs, toys, or whatever isn't going to change anything..

Bnonn wrote:

Holy hell! What kind of return on investment do you see on these? I hear the dairy business is pretty lucrative. If you can point me in the right direction, I have about $50 free. What sort of overheads am I looking at though?

You can get one of those from the Warehouse, Warehouse Stationary, Whitcoulls, etc, etc. Overheads ? Using your brains might be a strain, turn pages might be a shock to the system, but hey, this is all good. (Welcome back mental arithmetic :) )

Seriously, keeping a dairy on whatever (computer, PDA, traditional diary) is all well and good, and they all work, and they all work well, but it is up to the user to maintain the discipline of keeping the appointments.

Personally I see very little use of PDAs, cellphones other than ones that are nothing other than plain old cellphones, I'd rather put that sort of money into a laptop, have a decent digital camera and a plain old cellphone. A diary is something handy that you can take with you.

Anyway, I'm looking forward to Nandor coming on the 13th of June..

A. Pagaltzis wrote:

Man, Lindsay, you walked right into it.

dairy n : a farm where dairy products are produced [syn: dairy farm]

diary n 1: a daily written record of (usually personal) experiences and observations [syn: journal] 2: a personal journal (as a physical object)

Source: WordNet(r) 2.0

I mean, it was sort of a lame joke, but I was certainly tempted to jump on it myself.

Regards,

Oh man ! (LOL) Dyslexia to the max... And I can't blame Mozilla's spell checker...

Oh well, at least I wasn't registering a domain name at this particular time...

Greig McGill wrote:

To end speculation, and also to show some respect for a busy man, who is giving his time gratis to present to us, I'd better write an update.

Nandor has rescheduled for June the 13th.

Please be respectful, as if I were presenting to a group, and was internet savvy, I might (for example) read the mailing list archives to see what people had to say about me...

Awesome! I look forward to him appearing.

Mike