OK, so another boring post, but it needs doing.

Whilst I was in Britain, my loathsome Compaq iPaq PDA met with an unfortunate accident, that resulted in it being unreadable. The data was still there, but the machine itself was not in a state where I could use it.

Santa (yes, he really does exist, so don't tell me otherwise!) very kindly furnished me with a lovely new Palm PDA.

It's so nice dealing with the PalmOS over that God-awful abomination of technology known as Windows CE. When I was a Windows software developer, CE was bearable, because it interfaced with the systems I worked with, (well, it tried to at least).

I'll ramble on about "my favourite PDA operating system another time (Epoc - in case you care).

Now, I need facts!

I got most of the data off the iPaq, and onto the Palm, except that most crucial of information, my contacts. Somehow, the iPaq, with it's usual lack-of-reliablity not seen since British Leyland cars of the 1970's, managed to loose my contacts and diary data.

So, dear reader, if you know, or even suspect that I previously had your email and/or postal address, your phone number, your hat size or favourite colour on record, please could you email me with the information again.

I've managed to find a conduit to synch the Palm up to Entourage (my email client), and have an extensive list of names and email addresses, but it's the "real world" information I'm largely lacking. This won't happen again, because now that I have a Mac-compatible PDA, all contact details will be stored and synchronised between two Macintoshes and my PDA, thus making it pretty difficult, even for me, to lose the data.

So, if you could all oblige, I'd be really grateful. Thanks.

:)