GMinder - GMail based birthday reminders

I have a terrible time remembering birthdays. I also don't know anything about databases, but I do know that the GMail service has pretty good uptime, and that you can store contact information there. Enter GMinder.

Download

gminder.python (rename to gminder.py after download)

Usage Notes

GMinder is a python script and depends on libgmail.
You will need to edit the script so that it uses your GMail login and password
On the GMail side, for each contact you wish to keep track of, enter the following into the "notes" section:
- birthday: 06/23/1979
Note that for now, you will need to put leading zeroes.
You will probably want to run GMinder from a cron job. My crontab looks like this:
- 0 1 * * * /home/achiang/local/bin/gminder.py

issues

this is v1.0
is this worthy of sourceforge?
the regexp that looks for birthday strings could be updated to be less fragile (ie, not require leading zeroes)
should create a web front end
should probably remove hard coded values
only one reminder per year (rather than the present email count down)
this can probably be expanded to be a general purpose reminder (clever use of labels, etc)