Max this shoulda gone in yesterday, but this D***ed machine wouldn't play, and worse wouldnt e-mail the message to my home machine so I could post it there!! so
" h3>Max, Happy Birthday, 30!!!!!!!
Shhhheessh! thats NO age...you are just a young'un. and to have completed you most important work already!!
It was a great pleasure to meet and hang out with you, mate, you have what very very few achieve, friends and supporters all over the world, who appreciate and value your work (they will not admit this, and take the piss unmercifully) but when the chips are down, they are right there for you and for each other, and there are very few who can say that about their work, that they have raised the level of compassion, sharing, knowledge and enjoyment in the world."