So  in the final part of all this LCD screen madness.

I came up with the concept of displaying -

* Flashes - things that popup on the LCD screen immediately and must be shown now,  I.e caller ID popups.

* Tiles - just background news,  things that just display on the LCD when the screen is idle.

* Intermissions - like real-time weather, local travel updates and a live summary of blog hits etc.  This is information that is important to display between tiles.

With this concept in mind, today I built two things.

1) A poster routine that lets me post via MSMQ messages of the above types to the LCD queue will subsequently be displayed.

2) A program to go grab RSS articles and post tiles, which will run as a scheduled task running periodically to keep things moving.

What I have now have is a continual moving news on the Crystal Fontz display, interrupted periodically with weather and travel information.  Finally if the phone rings the whole display instantly changes to give a view who's calling.

Again happy to share source.