Hope I Haven't Missed Your Birthday

My trusted Palm Vx – from which sprang the Listen To Musak blog (why just write stuff for my own reading when I can bore everybody else?) – contains many useful freeware/shareware and fully paid-up pieces of software that didn’t come pre-installed. The most useful is DateMate. DateMate is a simple little program that stores birthdays, anniversaries, and events, and can populate the Palm Date Book with updated information so that I can always recall how old somebody is and how many years they have been married. If you own a Palm, I would wholeheartedly recommend you look at it.

Sadly, however, I have done two silly things in the past months:

  • First, I changed my synchronisation settings in Outlook so all birth dates and anniversaries were removed from my Date Book. This is OK, as DateMate will retain the backup, and all I had to do was re-enter them, but…
  • Secondly, I updated DateMate and forgot to read the update instructions, so I have updated to a later version that won’t accept my registration number. As a result, I can’t export a list of all the entries to make re-entry easier. So now I have to upgrade, and I am not sure it’s 100% necessary.

Ah well, maybe it would be easier to maintain a paper diary but it wouldn’t be as much fun, would it?

On this day…