11/16/2002 Archived Entry: "Christmas List"
Okay, so this is pretty similar to my birthday list, but has some more Christmassy things. It's really for my family - so if you're just a casual visitor, don't think that I expect you to buy me a Christmas present ;-)
The following list is in no particular order. You can visit my Amazon wishlist for more info about the books and stuff.
Clothing
- Black cotton tights from M&S
- A simple grey or blue or some other non-patterned fleece hat (no wool - I'm allergic)
- A geeky t-shirt (size large) from ThinkGeek
- Gift certificates
Reading Material
You can never go wrong buying me a book. I read 2-3 books a week. So, to keep me stocked for the rest of the year, I'd have to get over 104 books for Christmas! I'll read just about anything, so if you think you see something I'd like, or there's a book you enjoyed and would recommend, go for it! Or a least let me know which book you liked.
- A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
- The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
- Unless by Carol Sheilds
- Q is for Quarry by Sue Grafton
- The Nanny Diaries: A Novel by Emma McLaughlin, Nicola Kraus
- Mystery books by Kathy Reichs (except Fatal Voyage, Deja Dead and Death du Jour), Carol O'Connell (except Judas Child) and Laurie R. King (except A Grave Talent and The Moor).
- Eric Meyer on CSS by Eric Myer
- Building Accessible Websites (With CD-ROM) by Joe Clark
- Information Architecture for the World Wide Web by Louis Rosenfeld, Peter Morville
- Web Redesign: Workflow That Works by Kelly Goto, Emily Cotler
- Constructing Accessible Web Sites by Bob Regan
- 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
- Web Metrics: Proven Methods for Measuring Web Site Success by Jim Sterne
- The Naked Chef by Jamie Oliver
- any other good cookbooks that you'd recommend
- Jane magazine subscription
- National Geographic subscription
- Toronto Life subscription
Software and Computer Stuff
- Norton Antivirus(for Macintosh)
- Adobe Photoshop 7.0 (for Mac OSX) a longshot I know...
- computer speakers
Music
- The Beatles - White Album
- Paul Simon - Graceland
- Tricky - any album
Miscellaneous
- 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.
- 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
- Body Shop bathing bubbles - unscented
