Six-monthly email alerts
Oct. 30th, 2006 03:51 pmI've put back my bedside timepiece, my DVD recorder and my horlogette[1]. My computers all managed it seemlessly (though an alert might have been a nice touch). (Other clocks, such as the bird clock that sonic driftizens always manage to dissassemble, are not kept up to date.) Also, all are accurate within a minute according to timeanddate.com[2], though I should probably check that again in a month.
However, it occurs to me, at home, we generally were reminded by the radio times :) How could I be sure to be reminded in six months time? As it happens, it doesn't really matter: I'm always reminded by something, and even if not, worst case, I miss monday morning meeting.
But if it did matter, how should I go about it?
1. Put a note in my diary. Unfortunately, neither my home diary nor Outlook at work, am I absolutely confident the same system will be being used in a year's time.
2. Rely on my computer's clock. There's no reason this shouldn't work, every computer I've touched for years has done it seemlessly. However, I just don't trust it :)
3. Have an email alert. This is pretty solid, I always have important things in my inbox, and forsee I always will, and have chosen an email address I'm confident will be around for a long time.
3a. However, from where? I'm not confident I'll still be at gmail. Or that any crontab file I have access to will still be in use.
3b. Maybe a web service that does email alerts, that has lasted a while? What would you do? :)
[1] My cuff-clip timepiece. It has one button, so is a slight pain to change the time of, though the interface is pretty good. You press and hold to make the time flash, and then press to advance, or press and hold to advance first fast, then very fast (so it only takes a few secs to cycle round). However, me being me, I'd probably prefer sex combinations eg. "press" and "presspress" and "press pause presspress" that do forward once, forward fast, forward veryfast, back fast, etc.
[2] Truth in advertising. (I'm bored of people saying "what it says on the tin")
However, it occurs to me, at home, we generally were reminded by the radio times :) How could I be sure to be reminded in six months time? As it happens, it doesn't really matter: I'm always reminded by something, and even if not, worst case, I miss monday morning meeting.
But if it did matter, how should I go about it?
1. Put a note in my diary. Unfortunately, neither my home diary nor Outlook at work, am I absolutely confident the same system will be being used in a year's time.
2. Rely on my computer's clock. There's no reason this shouldn't work, every computer I've touched for years has done it seemlessly. However, I just don't trust it :)
3. Have an email alert. This is pretty solid, I always have important things in my inbox, and forsee I always will, and have chosen an email address I'm confident will be around for a long time.
3a. However, from where? I'm not confident I'll still be at gmail. Or that any crontab file I have access to will still be in use.
3b. Maybe a web service that does email alerts, that has lasted a while? What would you do? :)
[1] My cuff-clip timepiece. It has one button, so is a slight pain to change the time of, though the interface is pretty good. You press and hold to make the time flash, and then press to advance, or press and hold to advance first fast, then very fast (so it only takes a few secs to cycle round). However, me being me, I'd probably prefer sex combinations eg. "press" and "presspress" and "press pause presspress" that do forward once, forward fast, forward veryfast, back fast, etc.
[2] Truth in advertising. (I'm bored of people saying "what it says on the tin")