title: Sort upcoming birthdays based on current date
body: <p>I have the following table of people and their birthdays:</p>
  
  <pre><code>name        birthday
  ----------------------
  yannis      1979-06-29
  natalia     1980-08-19
  kostas      1983-10-27    
  christos    1979-07-22
  kosmas      1978-04-28
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and I have no idea how to sort the names on how closer the birthday is to today. So for NOW() = 2011-09-08 the sorted result should be:</p>
  
  <pre><code>kostas      1983-10-27
  kosmas      1978-04-28
  yannis      1979-06-29
  christos    1979-07-22
  natalia     1980-08-19
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I'm looking for a quick hack, don't really care for performance (pet project - table will hold less than 1000 records), but of course every suggestion will be extremely appreciated. </p>