---
title: "Happy birthday Uncle Elvis and me"
date: 2003-08-25
author: "Richard MacManus"
categories:
  - name: "ReadWriteWeb"
    url: "/category/readwriteweb.md"
tags:
  - name: "2003"
    url: "/tag/2003.md"
---

# Happy birthday Uncle Elvis and me

 Today, August 25, is [Elvis Costello’s birthday](https://web.archive.org/web/20040205162200/http://www.elviscostello.info/biography.html). It’s also **my** birthday 🙂

Co-incidentally, we also share the same surname. Elvis Costello’s real name is Declan MacManus. How cool is that! That’s why I affectionately refer to him as Uncle Elvis.

Hey, maybe I’m the Elvis Costello of Weblogging… only less cruel 🙂 No, better to be my own person. There’s only one of me (and Elvis too) and that’s more than enough!

*Originally published on ReadWriteWeb ([archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040018/http://www.readwriteweb.com/2003/08/25.html#a102))*