Jason - interesting perspective and clearly an indication that your Friday nights aren't very exciting
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This has been an issue for me ever since I used a Sharp Zaurus ZR5800 as my primary device (I suspect many of your readers have no idea what I am talking about - but I know you do). The Zaurus was probably the best integration between applications that I have ever seen. If I recall correctly, when you entered a contacts birthdate in the contact application, you had the opyion of being reminded several days (user configurable) before the actual birthday.
The great thing with the way that this was implemented was that the reminders would appear when the device was started up and you could snooze or dismiss the item depending on whether or nor you had taken the appropriate action.
I can't tell you the number of times this saved me or made me look good. I have yet to find a device that provides as useful of reminders as the Zaurus did and I bought it around 1996! I still have it so I will have tofire it up soon to remind myself of the good old days
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