Go to Jott, set up a free account (only takes a minute), add their toll free number to the speed dial of your mobile phone. 

Next time you need to remember to do something, you hit the Jott speed dial number and leave yourself a message.  The Jott service converts your speech to text and sends you an email or SMS message with the text (as well as a recording of your original message).  In addition, the Jott website keeps all of your Jott’s listed and you can organize them. 

But wait, there’s more.  You can import your contacts, so that you can Jott other people too.  And the icing is that this is a local Seattle company started by a couple of ex-Microsoft folks and the current plan is to keep the service free (using Ad funding or premium service model). 

I hope these guys shoot the moon with this product. 

Did you see this article about the guy who’s hard drive crashed? He took his PC back to Best Buy and they told him he needed to replace his hard drive which they did for free. He asked for the old one back (lots of personal info on the drive) and they said no because that is against their warranty policy.

The poor guy just got a call from a guy in Chicago who bought his old hard drive (which Best Buy assured him would be destroyed) at a flea market and it still contained his personal data.

Now I remember why I always build and maintain my own PCs. Unbelievable!