// we're going to use DOM instead so we can enter <tr>s...
        // document.getElementById('reminders_box').innerHTML = response[7] ;
        rem_TR = document.createElement('tr');

        // go to remno first
        z = i +3 ;

        // give this a unique id so we can delete it
        rem_id='reminder_id_'+cols[z];
        rem_TR.setAttribute('id',rem_id);

        // create the tds
        rem_text_TD = document.createElement('td');
        rem_text_TD.setAttribute('align','left');
        rem_text_TD.setAttribute('width','20%');

        // reminder time attributes
        rem_time_TD = document.createElement('td');
        rem_time_TD.setAttribute('align','left');
        rem_time_TD.setAttribute('width','60%');

        // reminder sms attributes
        rem_sms_TD = document.createElement('td');
        rem_sms_TD.setAttribute('align','left');
        rem_sms_TD.setAttribute('width','10%');

        // delete is handled seperately
        rem_del_TD = document.createElement('td');
        rem_del_TD.setAttribute('width','10%');

        // insert the text elements
        rem_text_TD.appendChild(document.createTextNode(cols[i++]));
        rem_time_TD.appendChild(document.createTextNode(cols[i++]));
        rem_sms_TD.appendChild(document.createTextNode(cols[i++]));

        // create link and add properties
        rem_del_A = document.createElement('a');
        rem_del_A.setAttribute('href','#');
        rem_del_A.setAttribute('onclick','kill_reminder('+cols[i]+')');
        rem_del_A.appendChild(document.createTextNode('Delete'));
        rem_del_TD.appendChild(rem_del_A);

        // append the tds
        rem_TR.appendChild(rem_text_TD);
        rem_TR.appendChild(rem_time_TD);
        rem_TR.appendChild(rem_sms_TD);
        rem_TR.appendChild(rem_del_TD);

        // append the tr element ...
        // clear the node first
        document.getElementById('reminders_box').replaceChild(rem_TR,document.getElementById('reminders_box').firstChild);