Explanation
This page originally started off as a useful way of keep track of stuff I wanted. To be honest, it started off over at Yahoo Notepad and then, for a while, as an Amazon wishlist (until I realised I wanted stuff that Amazon doesn't sell). Once or twice a year, people start asking me what I want for my birthday/christmas. I never have any idea at all. However, I frequently bump into cool reviews of books/films/comics/whatever that I want to have. So I decided to keep track of it somewhere that other people could get access to, to save all that tedious questioning.
Rest assured that I don't actually expect people to buy me stuff, and this isn't here as a begging list for my birthday (21st August, if you're interested). It's actually here primarily so that when I have some money I remember what the really cool thing was that I wanted. If anyone wants to buy me a brain that remembers stuff, I can ditch this page and pretend to be a normal human being.
Big Stuff
Slim Remote MP3 Player (or two)
That seems to be it.
Littler stuff
Books
Dreaming Pool by Gary Greenwood
The King Never Dies by Gary Greenwood
The Wooden Sea by Jonathan Carroll
Peopleware : Productive Projects and Teams, 2nd Ed. by Tom Demarco, Timothy Lister
The Big Time by Fritz Leiber
Manifold: Time by Stephen Baxter
The Knights of the Limits by Barrington J. Bayley
Bimbos of the Death Sun by Sharyn McCrumb
Perdido Street Station by China Mieville
Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian
A short treatise on the great virtues by Andre Comte-Sponville
It Ain't Necessarily So by Richard Lewontin
The Evolution Man by Roy Lewis
Beside Still Waters: Searching for Meaning in an Age of Doubt
The Silver Pigs by Lindsey Davis
Broken Angels by Richard Morgan
Something More by Paul Cornell
DVD
Yes Minister season one and two.
Teachers Season Two
Comics
Note: not all available yet
Zenith
Akira 1-6
Snakes and Ladders - Alan Moore
Alias
Delicate Creatures
X-Force - new beginnings
THE BIRTHDAY RIOTS - Nabiel Kanan
Essential Howard the Duck
Quantum & Woody vol 1
The Complete Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers
Zero Girl
Dawn, return of the goddess
Other