Birthdays

Got a heads up on this from cheshyre:

Good news: With so many people adding years to their birthdays to bump up LJ's statistics, LJ has now added an option to display only month and day of your birthday without the year (even if you have entered the year).

Bad news: In so doing, they changed everyone's preferences to not display the birthday at all, even if you previously chose to display it.

Go to http://www.livejournal.com/manage/profile/ to set the option the way you want it.

Edited to add: (Someone commented on cheshyre's journal: Thanks for the heads-up. Moreover, I noticed that they introduced a bug: If you enter only the month and day, and tell it to only display the month and day, it will only display the day (with a hyphen before it). If you enter the year, it will display correctly.)

Little bird

On the way home from work, I was startled to discover that a bird had landed on the hood of my car and apparently was in no hurry to leave. It was snuggled right next to the windshield on the passenger side, staring at me through the glass. It rode along with me for about fifteen minutes, and was still there when I got out of the car.

I'm worried about it. It must be a fledgling, and now it is miles away from its nest.

I took a picture, but I couldn't get my camera to download. I don't know the breed.

Later: I drove the girls to karate. The bird was still there. However, there was a torrential rainstorm, the sort where water splashes up from the gutters over the hood of the car. The bird was eventually washed away. I hope it landed on grass and will survive.