Erase all personal data from not working phone?

Long story short: my attempt at replacing my iPhone 2g dock connector did not end well.
My phone now consists of several parts.
It's probably not going to be worth buying replacement parts and putting it back together (about 75 dollars in parts for a phone I paid 125 dollars for), and I'd like to cut my losses.
I obviously can not connect this to iTunes and hit 'reset' a few times.
Is there any way I can completely erase all my personal data - phonebook, recorded memos and stuff recorded in apps (aNote specifically, because it contains my diary and I think I temporarily disabled the passcode a few days ago) ?
The Long story:
I knew it had a broken dock connector and I couldn't figure out how to get to, I also broke the ribbon that comes out of the digitizer, and the battery kinda exploded when I tried to pry it loose and poked a hole into it with a screwdriver (sparks and all - turns out it was superglued to the aluminum) - so in order not to short out other parts I instantly cut all wires that connected the battery to everything else.
In my defense I did successfully open up and replace the battery on an iPod nano so I like to think I'm not a complete idiot... (the digitizer ribbon got snagged behind a sharp edge when I very carefully pulled the screen off, and my YouTube instruction video said to leverage something underneath the battery..it's not supposed to be glued in like that?).

Thank you.
Although not really the answer I was hoping for
The only expensive replacement part I needed was the screen/digitizer combo which is 50 dollars.. antenna wire, new battery and replacement dock were about 15 dollars.
So I'm going to try and fix it. Will be good for my ego too if I succeed, little less so for the bank account. Wish me luck (if it fails I'll break the perfectly fine motherboard and sell the rest of the parts..)

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