Birthday displays a list of events which are coming up in the near future,
based on a config file (~/.birthdays) in the user's home directory.  
Used in a user's .profile or crontab it can save the day for many
a terminally disorganised soul...

Originally by Andy Mortimer <andy.mortimer@zetnet.co.uk>
Ported by Niek Bergboer <niek@bergboer.net>