Happy Birthday, Bitches!

August is the time that a lot of my special people celebrate their birthdays, and this entry from Techcruch helped me remember that.  August is an interesting set of birthdays, because literally 96% of my closest people fall in this group, plus a whole lot of other rad people.  So, for Breeann, Alan, Jeremy, Kelli, Kevin, Ashley, Annie, Lexie, and others that I have lost touch with (Cale, Frankie), as well as my other great Augustians, Happy Birthmonth!  Take advantage of it, because before you know it, I am going to be needing your undivided attention.  Remember that due to the holiday and that fact that my birthday falls on a Sunday, my official birthweek this year will run from the preceding Friday (10.15) to the following Monday (10.25).  Ok, enough about me for now...

If only I spoke Spanish fluently enough to set it as my FB language, I would have had this gem a few days ago:

Facebook Celebrates People’s Birthdays In A Special Way: “F*ck You B*tches”

by Robin Wauters, Techcrunch.com on Jul 29, 2010

TechCrunch reader Saul Lustgarten checks in to tell us he logged on to Facebook this morning and noticed that the list of his friends who are having their birthday today was preceded by a crude message, reading “fuck you bitches”.
Yeah right, we thought. I checked it out on my Facebook profile and didn’t notice anything off.
Then, I followed Saul’s suggestion of switching my main language to Spanish instead of English, and lo and behold (click for full-size image):

We’ve contacted Facebook to see if they really mean it or if their army of volunteer translators – there are two sides to that shiny crowdsourcing medal after all – or one of their coders simply decided to have some fun.
Update: sorry to disappoint, but it seems to be fixed now. But it was definitely there.