remind was pretty easy to install to dreamhost
mkdir .packages
cd .packages
wget http://www.roaringpenguin.com/files/download/remind-03.01.00.tar.gz
tar xvfz remind-03.01.00.tar.gz
cd remind-03.01.00/
./configure --prefix=$HOME
make
make install
Only other thing to it really is Dreamhost is PST so I had to set the TZ variable. In .bashrc:
export TZ=/America/New_York
I want to run remind on here mostly to send email reminders, and maintain an online calendar, so I set that in my crontab while I was at it so the times are right.