Taking Rest of The Day Off

Om Malik, Thursday, September 29, 2005 at 2:28 PM PT Comments (39)

I am taking rest of the day today and tomorrow off… writing for the magazine and also plan to have a lot of drinks this evening… starting my 365 day countdown to 40…

Update: Thank you all for kind and warm wishes. Russell sent me a Zero-Cal Cake, while Julia got me a 1000-Cal Cake. Appreciate it. And Technorati, sent me a birthday gift - for a day I was in the Technorati 100 Blogs list. #99 actually! Laziness got me kicked out! Oh my head hurts… my wish … if only I could get the same amount of bandwidth as the # of years I have spent on the planet… i would be happy!

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Happy Birthday!?

Russ said:

Happy Birthday Om!!!!

-Russ

Jacob Varghese said:

wow, so old! aren’t all people your age out of touch with technology??? I kid, Om. Happy Birthday.

Om Malik said:

jacob… i feel like that sometimes. i am learning how to use a pewter and something called de innernet. thanks

Chuka said:

happy bday. take it easy on the drinks.

Jon said:

Happy birthday Om. It has been great getting to know you more over the past year. Onward for another year of broadband.

john said:

I like it, good luck

Samir said:

Damn you are old!!. :-) Just kidding… Enjoy. And drink like there is no tommorow. :-)
Have a Great Birthday.

Eran G said:

Happy birfday, Om! Many happy scoops ;)

Mike Rundle said:

Happy b-day man!

Even though you’ll be taking the day off, we’ll still be hard at work ;)

Happy birthday Om!

Ash said:

Happy birthday, Om. Lets plan on meeting next week then.

Happy birthday Om!

ceo

Gopi said:

Happy B’day Om

subba said:

happy birthday om!

Lloyd said:

Many happy returns of the day. Cheers to you!

Romain said:

Happy birthday Om! After writing nite&day you deserve a few drinks and some vacation I think. Seriously, it looks like you live on a plane flying with the sun so you just get days and no nights ;-)

emad said:

Happy birthday!

September 29th, 2005
10:16 PM PT
Christian said:

My humble salutation, one more year and everything will change… see you soon…

September 29th, 2005
10:39 PM PT
moo said:

Save some booze for your 40th. You’ll really need it then. ;-)

September 29th, 2005
11:07 PM PT
Vijay said:

Happy birthday Om. :-)

Vijay

September 29th, 2005
11:07 PM PT
kay said:

Holy cow, you’re gigaold! Have a good one.

September 30th, 2005
12:26 AM PT
Alessandro said:

Happy birthday (my is october 2)!!

Oyvind said:

Happy birthday! 39 first, as it is called around here (next year is 39 second…)

Oyvind

Jeff Clavier said:

Happy Birthday Om!

J.

Enjoy your 30s, Om…happy birthday!

michael

Hi

new to this forum, and seems like a good day to sign up,
Happy bday, 40 isn’t that bad…I hope :-)

Iqbal

hi old dude

but thats wiser too :)

hv a great day

Sridhar Pai

Happy Birthday, Om. I have been reading your stuff for some time, and it has been a pleasure.

Hopefully, you enjoyed many drinks last night to celebrate another year.

Brian Sugar said:

damn that’s old!

Victor Blake said:

Happy Birthday Om.

Rick said:

Happy Birthday! Om is the man!

September 30th, 2005
10:04 AM PT
Mark Sigal said:

Happy birthday, Om. Just don’t break any federal laws or get any “I XOXO Broadband” tattoos tonight.

September 30th, 2005
11:29 AM PT
shekhar lodha said:

happy birthday, om

life begins at 40!!!

have lodsa funnnnn

September 30th, 2005
11:31 AM PT
Matt said:

Happy birthday. Here’s to many more. :)

James Harris said:

Happy Birthday. If I see you at Web 2.0 I will buy you a birthday drink.

James

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October 8th, 2005
7:15 AM PT
Jim Parsons said:

The best 5 years of my life where when I was 39 :-)
Happy Birthday Om!… and many happy returns!

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