08/15/2002 Archived Entry: "Birthday List"
Okay, my birthday is coming up, so I thought I'd add a wish list to my blog. Saves time and energy telling everyone what I want... The following list is in no particular order. You can visit my Amazon wishlist for more info about the books and stuff.
Reading Material
- Usability: The Site Speaks for Itself by Kelly Braun, et al.
- The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering by Frederick P. Brooks
- Homepage Usability: 50 Websites Deconstructed by Jakob Nielsen, Marie Tahir
- Designing Web Usability : The Practice of Simplicity by Jakob Nielsen;
- any good cookbooks that you'd recommend
- Jane magazine subscription
- National Geographic subscription
- Toronto Life subscription
Software and Computer Stuff
- The Sims Hot Date computer game (for Macintosh)
- Norton Antivirus(for Macintosh)
- Adobe Photoshop 7.0 (for Mac OSX) a longshot I know...
- computer speakers
Music
The Beatles - White AlbumPaul Simon - GracelandThe Best of Leonard CohenTricky - any albumMiscellaneous
- a man's wallet for carrying around the profusion of customer loyalty cards I seem to have accumulated
- gift certificates for book stores (any kind - online or offline), Home Depot, IKEA, Home Hardware, etc.
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Okay, so I've thought of a couple more things...
- A yoga mat (or the yoga kit that you can get at Indigo)
- A pencil sharpener - not electric, and one that catches the pencil shavings in an attached container of some sort
- A geeky t-shirt (size large) from ThinkGeek
That's it for now - I'll update as I think of stuff.
