Is it that time of the year? It only seems like yesterday that I wrote my XLV post — I’m celebrating another birthday today. Today I’m XLVI As happened last year, I’ve received best wishes from my friends via email, tweets, re-tweets, facebook and these started the day before, due to my down under crew. Thank you to all who left me a note – I will get back to each and everyone of you! Now some information about my age :  It is a Wedderburn-Etherington number , an enneagonal number and a centered triangular number . It is the sum of the totient function for the first twelve integers. 46 is the largest even integer that can’t be expressed as a sum of two abundant numbers . It  is the 13th semiprime .  It is the atomic number of palladium , the number of human chromosomes and the (decimal) value of the ASCII code for the period ( full stop ), as well as the code for international direct dial phone calls to Sweden. This year, I am away from home, but I do get to celebrate my birthday at PDC09 , with thousands of fellow geeks. There’s even a geekfest in the evening (which I’m thinking is surprise birthday party for me – how cool could that be!!!!!). As I look ahead, I’m see a what others did at age 46: Ben Franklin conducted kite experiments, and discovered lightning is an electrical discharge. Scottish surgeon, James Baird , discovered hypnosis. Jack Nicklaus became oldest man ever to win golf’s Masters. Alfred Eisenstaedt took his photo of a sailor sweeping up a girl in a kiss during the V-J day celebration in Times Square. Theodore Roosevelt was elected to a full term as President in 1904. John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963. and can wonder what lies ahead for me… Technorati Tags: Frank Arrigo, PDC09, XLVI Comments Anonymous November 17, 2009 Happy b-day Frank! from the other side of the world I send u the best of wishes man… hope ur geeky bday gets celebrated as only an Aussi like u could do. Feliz cumpeaños viejo! Additional resources Last updated on 2009-11-18