Jacob Christensen

Actually, I have no right to complain about people who do not celebrate their birthdays.

As it is, the last time I threw a big birthday party is … a long time ago. I spent my 30th birthday visiting my parents who were recuperating after major and minor surgery, respectively, so that birthday dinner was courtesy of Herlev Amtssygehus and my 40th was a fairly quiet affair as most of the relatives, friends and colleagues, I might have invited, weren’t exactly just around the corner. But Jessika, David and Nick still made, if not the day, then the event memorable. Your efforts have not been forgotten – and in any event I prefer small gatherings to big parties.

So let me just note that in these months I have listed a 50th, a 60th and a 70th birthday among friends and relatives, neither of which will be celebrated.

And obviously, it would be wrong to reveal any names here.

Hm – that was a suspicious – to say the least – link appearing in the referrers (The Feedjit-widget). The strange thing is that I haven’t seen it as a trackback (there are pages out there which generate random links to get a higher Google-rating), but then Akismet does a fine job of zapping not just spam comments but also spam trackbacks.

1. The Liberals held their annual party conference this week-end. Not exactly the best opportunity to present new policies and the like – the party’s homepage doesn’t even have a copy of Anders Fogh Rasmussen’s speech – but then you can always celebrate.
2. Also: Pia Kjærsgaard plays the “I’m offended by…” game.

Saturday was a very bad day for the Scandinavian teams: Spain 3 – 0 Sweden, Northern Ireland 2 – 1 Denmark. And, lest we forget, Norway 1 – 2 Turkey. Sweden still has a decent chance of making it to the Euro ’08 finals, though.

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