An Online Birthday Party!

Today is my birthday. And although I stayed home with a headache and other small complaints, and although I don’t really celebrate it any longer (except for the real round figures, like 50-60), the day started out pretty bright just around midnight with all kinds of virtual birthday wishes.

It started with an e-card (left) from Ramona Bates, plastic surgeon and quilter from the USA (hence her blog Suture for a Living), followed by many other birthday wishes.

Robin of Survive the Journey was so kind to send a song via blip.fm and then to organize a “twitter-party” by using the twitter-tool QuoteURL I had just reviewed on my blog (see here).

The start of the Twitter party  is shown below. Here is the link: http://www.quoteurl.com/r1e27

Suture for a Living

1. 
   rlbates @laikas Happy Birthday! 14 Jun 2009 from web in reply to laikas
2. 
   drval Happy Birthday to @laikas, our favorite Dutch medical librarian. 14 Jun 2009 from web
3. 
   AllergyNotes @laikas Happy Birthday! 14 Jun 2009 from web in reply to laikas
4. 
   Bonnycastle RT @AllergyNotes: @laikas Happy Birthday! 14 Jun 2009 from TweetDeck
5. 
   scanman @laikas Happy Birthday Jacqueline 14 Jun 2009 from Mobile Tweete
6. 
   laikas @scanman: @laikas Happy Birthday Jacqueline Thanks vijay. Wish we could have a Twitter birthday party with cake or so. 14 Jun 2009 from TweetDeck
7. 
   MarilynMann @laikas Happy birthday! 14 Jun 2009 from mobile web
8. 
   laikas @MarilynMann thanks Marilyn. It is very nice to begin your birthday with all those kind birthday-twishes. 14 Jun 2009 from TweetDeck in reply to MarilynMann
9. 
   staticnrg @Laikas Oh, happy birthday!! Hope it is a wonderful one!! ♫ http://blip.fm/~88du0 14 Jun 2009 from Blip.fm
10. 
    laikas @staticnrg: “@Laikas Oh, happy birthday!! Hope it is a wonderful one!!” – Well the start is all right – thnx! ♫ http://blip.fm/~88e8a 14 Jun 2009 from Blip.fm

– this quote was brought to you by quoteurl (pity that WordPress transforms the style)

Later I received more birthday and get-well wishes from Twitter, Hyves, Facebook, and Fabulously 40 (and beyond). I even received a e-card with “happy birthday” in Chinese!

Although my friends are virtual (?) and the cards and wishes are virtual, it feels like I’m having a real birthday party with real friends. The only thing that was missing was real coffee, cake or wine.