What is your preferred medium for phone numbers and addresses management?

Palm/computer.

I have an address book I use, but I usually put phone numbers right into my cell phone at the time I get them. Eventually I put them in my address book too.

Palm Desktop and my Palm Pilot

We have a little paper card rolodex-like thing by the phone

I use a Rolodex at the office and at home. They work well for me, but I am starting to feel the internal stirrings for a Palm Pilot.

I have a traditional telephone/address book that I keep by the telephone. I also use the telephone/address book on my computer. Most of the telephone numbers I call are in my cell phone.

The address book on my mobile phone - I just wish I could promote some people instead of them being in alphabetical order - its an old phone I'm afraid and I can't delete names so if I want to find 'William' I have to scroll through the list.
If its someone I phone all the time then I would like to have them displayed first.

I have our frequently-called numbers stored in my word processor file on my computer.

I remember the addresses, and keep all phone numbers on my mobile phone.

If I've gotten rid of all the phone number notes out of my wallet it would be pretty much empty.

Cell phone.

Damn Dino, that must suck. You ought to save up and get you a new one. All my frequently called numbers are voice activated, and I think just about all the new phones have that now.

paper is the most convient for me. Though I also rely a bit on other, including my graphing calculator.

I recently loaded all my contacts from my computer address book onto my iPod.

I like to have this information at my fingertips no matter where I am, so I use my computer, my iPod, and a good old paper address book in case all else fails. I also store phone numbers in my wristwatch.

sony clie'

"My name is Bond... Sue Bond..."

That's a good one! I wonder if you need a magnifing glass to read them? I've never looked at one of those in person.

Did it get there on time????

Wow! You're good! I can't remember a phone (or street) number the second after it's spoken!
Are you good at mental calculation?

Graphing calculator with phone numbers?

What's that?

At your service!

it's a type of PDA or alternative to the Palm.

Yes, I received it on Christmas Eve. Thank you! It's very pretty. I'll put it on next years tree!

well, you can like store generic information in them. They're like, you could store the enitre encylopedia if you wanted to. They virtually all have a programing mode where you can type in programs. All you really gotta do is manually type in numbers and letters, and open up the "program" (even though it wont work) and just look though the text you typed.

I see... Never heard of it. Expensive?

Christmas Eve? How perfect!

I think I bought one for my son when he started his electronics class. Very expensive calculator - it really should be called something else! Calculator makes it sound rather banal...

Is it T85 or T86, or something else?

TI89 - That's not a better name! Sounds like a car to me... (I remember the price better than the model number!!)

Memory for some numbers, pieces of paper for others.

no, the one i have is their least expensive model........ but they have models that range the gamat! http://www.sonystyle.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity... this is the one i have!!!

I remember the location of the address but often don't know the street number. I can't tell you the names of the streets I use every day but I know the way. I can remember phone numbers pretty well but I guess I'm average at mental calculation. We used calculators at school so we were never taught any methods to calculate in our heads quickly.

well the prices vary. And if you're lucky enough, you could get it cheap.

"The product shown is not available" - I guess I waited too long to reply to you!!

My husband is great at mental calculation; when we were just starting out and broke, he would add everything I put in the shopping cart and be accurate to the dime! There are tricks you can learn; so he and our son often test each other then compare notes as to how they came up with the answer. They laugh at my inability to do as well! I've found that artistic people generally are terrible at mental calculation. That's my excuse anyway!

I bought it at Staples and they are not the cheapest! I guess I wasn't lucky. That my son has not lost it - now THAT's lucky!!

Is he really that irreponsible. I know that for some reason, people used to think I would lose everything, but I proved them wrong

my excuse is my over-relyance on calculators. Though I could probably say the same thing about my (over)-relyance on spell checkers as well.

Not really but he's is rather trusting and his carelessness (leaving money lying around to be stolen by an ex-girlfriend - not watching his leather coat in the cafeteria with an expensive mini-disk player in his pocket, he lost the disk player but, thankfully, not the coat and etc...) costs him (and us) money!!

Southernyankee and spell checkers!!! Now that's a laugh!!

No, actually its my over-relyance on spell checkers that makes my spelling so bad when I dont have that cruch.

Thats what I was refering to. Actually, my parents thought that I am very gullible and they dont give me enough credit and dont think I can watch my stuff well enough.

I think you're too trusting rather than gullible...

What makes you say that? ??!?

Yes there are speed math methods but for some reason they don't teach them in schools.

Because I just don't consider you gullible and I don't see why you would be labeled as such...

Yes as well as grammar. I went to French elementary school then to English high school. My French is excellent because you learn the grammar in your first years. I wanted to do the same for our children but found that their French was too poor to send them to an English school. Most Quebecers can't even spell properly even if it's their only language! I don't know why they changed the way they teach grammar, I couldn't even help my kids with their homework because the terms were new. My son still struggles with French in College, he has an analytical mind and is great in Math but since French is all about rules (some very stupid rules) and memorizing with no logic; he hates it!
One of his teachers told us that French is the way it is, with all the stupid rules and exceptions because the language purposely evolved to be difficult. In Victorian times, the language of the cultured was French. It required much learning to master it, so if you were Russian and spoke French fluently, you were educated. What a load of crap!
English is a direct language and French is a precise language (there are often 5 words meaning basically the same thing). It's often just too complicated for nothing. No wonder English has become the language of business, no one has time to mess around and time is money!

Oh, I thought you said that I WAS /-).

actually Enlish has some arcane needless excpetions of its own. Still better than French or Spanish. What you said about English and other languages is pretty much correct. Its also the reason why so many people around the world speak it. Actually I heard that some Europeanized version of German is even more efficient than Enlish. It's very similar to English though. Its more like Engman or Gerlish. Yeah, Gerlish, that sounds about right.

Gerlish... That's funny! Here in Quebec, when you're as bilingual as I am you're; "Franglais" or Frenglish!

Yeah. If you look at an appliance instruction manual, English always takes up the least amount of space because it seems to not need so many linking words. "NO EXIT" in English might be "this is not a way out" in another language.

I learnt French for 2 years in high school. What a crap language - no offence. Masculine and feminine nouns? The only way to know them is to learn them, there's no rule. I think French needs to be overhauled, but Francophones are so scared of English influence that it will never happen. I can't remember any French except a few numbers and how to say "my name is..." The only practice we would get is if we went on vacation to Tahiti or New Caledonia which is an hour's flight away. They now get Australian satellite TV so they will probably want to practice their English on me.

Masculine and feminine - silly isn't it? They speak French in Tahiti?

Yes. It's part of French Polynesia. The rest of Polynesia speak English and their local languages. The French aren't very popular in the Sth Pacific, what with testing nukes on Mururoa Atoll and sinking that Greenpeace ship in Auckland (New Zealand) Harbour. In fact our Prime Minister has said he would like to be rid of the French in this region.

Yeah... I knew about that. Tahiti is just a remainder of the "conquering" period I guess, I just never thought of it that way. The English were better at that game. I'm reading about Cochrane and how he whooped the French during the Napoleonic war, freed the Spanish, destroyed blockades and etc... They called him "Le Loup de Mer" (Sea Wolf) and it's no wonder! They scrambled when they saw him coming.

Did you know that a part of France is real close to my home?
St-Pierre et Miquelon;
"The inhabitants have traditionally earned their livelihood by fishing and by servicing fishing fleets operating off the coast of Newfoundland. The economy has been declining, however, because of disputes with Canada over fishing quotas and a steady decline in the number of ships stopping at Saint Pierre. "

I still don't understand what the heck they're doing there... The should pack up and leave! There's no more fish!! Their government has to subsidized those island to keep their people there. They're trying to promote tourism! If Newfoundland has trouble attracting tourists because the place is considered a big old rock, what the heck do a couple of pebbles have to offer?

Yeah, I've seen that on my Atlas. It's weird how Canada lets them have it. Why is it still part of France? Very weird that they retained those small islands.

What do French Canadians think of how English speakers say "Pardon my French" when they curse?

They say "Excusez mon anglais!" when they burp!!

How insulting!

I lose paper. Its hard to lose my computer, I guess

Some SO, some memory, some scraps of paper, some on the computer.. it's not very organized.