"Birthday Reminder" success, with elbow grease

[Dan Kegel]

"Birthday Reminder" (one of many, anyway) is a free VB app at
http://www.zhornsoftware.co.uk/bday/
It's just a 275KB download.
If you have MFC42 installed, it installs very nicely, and seems to work.
(If you don't, the install crashes, tsk.  Wine should put up an error dialog
or something.)
It has some visual problems having to do with fonts -
text is often cut off at the right end one word short.