So I have this really “clever” contact system which I use to reel in my unwieldy database of close to 5,000 contacts.  Now, I have spent years  (since 1992) building a contact database using Act! for Windows then, because I can, I switch to Mac which is 99% better except that I can’t use Act! in the Mac environment.  After using a few contact databases, I settle on Daylite.  It has some great features and is powerful enough for my needs but the synch feature, well,  sucks.  I need my stuff on my crackberry so I have to have a web of Exchange and Enterprise servers to get eveything in line…still does not work well.  Even tried a subset of contacts…still not very good.

So why am I talking about this under the heading of holiday crunch time?  Well, my clever system does email merges which lets me set up and send close to 600 emails in a fraction of the time and personally addressed to each contact (shh, don’t tell anyone).  Trouble is, the system screwed up and they are now all named Javier…Oh well, another thing it can’t do right.  Act! for Mac anyone?  C’mon, it almost rhymes!