Doug Zongker

http://www.birthdayalarm.com/ - Kevin Gough

You'll have some competition: http://www.jackcards.com - Mike Doeff

What if you could use your phone to take a photo of a handwritten note, and the site would clean it up, put it on a card, and send it? - Jim Norris

I would love this... I would want it to send a bunch of flowers or some such as well... - Bindu Reddy

jackcards is great! i'm using it now. thx mike doeff - peter

Will receiving a birthday card mean anything if it no longer means you remembered? - Amit Patel

Every X% of the time (X is based on a personality survey taken at signup) it will send the card late with an apology. - Larry Greenfield

Probably not because I never remember to do this early enough. Now, if you could promise same day delivery for an extra $1, I'm game. P.S. you should offer to include gift cards (I bet you could get some kind of commission from places like Best Buy, REI, Target, etc). - Michael Leggett

love the same day feature for those like Michael...and me! - peter

It should mail the card to *me*, along with a stamped, addressed envelope for the recipient. I take it out of my mailbox, sign it, write "Happy Birthday!", and stick it right back in the mailbox. I'm imagining some sort of netflix-esque mailer... - Doug Zongker

doug - check out jackcards.com - like it? - peter

doh! - Doug Zongker

do you think your friends know your handwriting? your family might recognize it. wondering if the handwriting could come from someone who isn't you. - peter

Knowing me I would enter a date that was too late. - j1m

sounds like a great app for a social network that already knows your friends birthdays - Kevin Marks

nah, i probably wouldn't use this. i like giving people real things. - Michael Sippey

i dont think this would work on a social network. it's more about your most important relationships. like your mom. - peter

i tried jackcards.com. cool concept but implementation needs some work. took me too long to schedule a card. - peter

How about calendar events that trigger *actual* events? Whether it's online bill payments or sending birthday cards, triggering arbitrary services / APIs based on a time/date you put on your Google Calendar could be interesting. - Jonathan Terleski

Try Zyrtec. I've had allergies since I can remember and nothing ever helped. This year I decided to try Zyrtec and it really works well. - Benjamin Golub

I second Zyrtec.... Every year since college, my allergies have resulted in the same Februrary to March coughing, wheezing and bronchitis/laryngitis. So I take that Zyrtec this year and I've not once been bogged down by allergy symptoms.... Coincidence? I think not. I also highly recommend setting up the E-mail alerts from pollen.com. If it goes above med-high, take the Zyrtec. .... Now that I sound like some pharmaceutical commercial, I should now read a disclaimer about how Zyrtec will destroy every living cell in your body and you should not taunt it... - Chris Reed

Zyrtec helps keep me from sneezing / having my eyes and nose itch, but does absolutely nothing to help my intense nasal stuffiness :-(. Has anyone found a drug (over-the-counter or prescription) that works for congestion? Sudafed helps a bit, but makes me feel like I've had too many coffees in a short period of time and then kept my mouth open in a wind tunnel for a bit. Not pleasant and generally not a worthwhile tradeoff. - Adam Lasnik

getting old is a bitch - eviltom

I did when I moved to California. Always figured it was some kind of plant that grows here but not anywhere else I've lived. - Doug Zongker

I'm convinced that it's b/c all the plants flowered (or whatever) during the month while I was in Pennsylvania. That, if I'd been here all along, I would have gotten used to it slowly, but instead, it all hit me at once when I got back. This is probably totally inconsistent w/ the way allergies work, but all I know is, it started as soon as I got back to California! - Ana

I've seen it happen when people move from one part of the planet to another. But I suspect you didn't just move to a different part of the planet. - Robert Konigsberg

29 is "late in life"? - Alex

Maybe he's making a prediction. Anyway, allergy-level changes are common when moving, but I think in general common throughout adulthood. - j1m

For congestion -- I take singulair (prescription), but I get congestion, because on top of allergies, I also have asthma. - Joyce H. Sohn