Depending on what social networks (Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter or FriendFeed you and I are connected on, you may see that today, January 1st is my birthday.

That is a big, fat bold-faced lie…and I am the one telling it. Thank you for your kindnesses anyway, I appreciate the spirit in which you sent the greetings.

You see on the internet, you can give away too much information in you’re not careful. A birthday is a lovely piece of important data that unscrupulous types on the net love to find cause they can cause some damage with it.

So I don’t list my real birthday and nobody on the net needs to know it anyway. January 1st is my cyber-birthday.

And if you want a sage piece of advice to start off the year, I’d tell you to start celebrating one too.

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