Sometimes I wish these near-strangers a happy birthday — why not? — but it feels entirely different from the birthday wishes that I'd deliver after those long nights transferring birthdays from an old calendar to a new one.
Numerous Church Fathers offered sarcastic comments about the pagan custom of celebrating birthdays when, in fact, saints and martyrs should be honoured on the days of their martyrdom their true "birthdays," from the church's perspective.
One year, when I must have been tired or distracted, I copied the birthdays from the previous year's calendar into the new one on the same day of the week but on the wrong date, so I was off on every birthday that year until I figured out my mistake.
With this update, the Outlook calendar can now also automatically pull in your friends' birthdays from Skype, LinkedIn and Facebook.
Treat users can also import their friends' birthdays from their Facebook account, and can pull in photos from their Facebook albums.
NutshellMail lets you monitor what people are saying about you on Twitter and see your new friend requests, messages, and birthdays from Facebook, among other things.
