Anyone remember the old ECE bulb add where every one tells Nasrani(?) to buy a bulb???
As for me, I got Gkrellm to pester me for appointments and TODO using the following plugins. No need for ugly full screen GTK apps or full fledged desktop environments for doing this!
http://web.wt.net/~billw/gkrellm/Plugins.html
http://voidtrance.home.comcast.net/software/
Yay!