hey jlongino thanks for the comments.

You're right. IRT (In Real Time) the routine prolly wouldnt pose much of a performance threat, however it looks messy and i'm sure there are ways to optimise it. The back end is actually a Postgresql database, so that's where i'm thinking there will be some performance hit.

crazyinsomniac posted some cool CGI.pm stuff i really didnt have a good handle on before.

The project is fun, (as well as practical). I'm basically writing a personal web portal, with addrbk, datebk, ToDo, and notes interfacing with my palm pilot.

I'm also thinking of writing a 'file-manager' type interface (using the pilot-xfer tools), as well as some kind of avantgo syncing (with a malsync backend).

I've pretty much done all the session management, and addressbook thus far and am about 20% into the datebk.

As you can see I suffer from feature creep. I should concentrate on the datebk before things get out of hand.. :-)