-My Wish List
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+[[!meta title="My Personal Wish List"]]
This is a list of things I would like to have, so if you want to make me a
present, feel free to use this list as an inspiration. However, I myself may
satisfy my wishes on this list from time to time ;-)
-I update this list quite often. Items I've already got are
-<strike>struck out</strike>.
-
-DVDs
+Movies
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(Please, no BluRays or HD-DVDs, their DRM systems are evil!)
+ * everything from [Monty Python’s Flying Circus](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063929/)
* [Tonari no Totoro](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096283/) (1988)
* [Mononoke-hime](http://imdb.com/title/tt0119698/) (1997)
* [The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0371724/) (2005)
* [Sin City](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0401792/) (2005)
* [Lost in Translation](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0335266/) (2003)
* [Hackers](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113243/) (1995)
- * <strike>[Lord of War](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0399295/) (2005)</strike>
-CDs
+Music
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* Kamelot – Epica
+ * Keane – Perfect Symmetry
+ * Röyksopp: Melody A.M.
Books
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-(ordered by preference)
+(ordered by preference, no e-books until the DRM issue is gone.)
+ * John Scalzi: The Ghost Brigades, ISBN-13: 978-0765354068
+ * Michael Seemann: Das neue Spiel: Strategien für die Welt nach dem digitalen Kontrollverlust, ISBN: 3936086796
+ * more “Discworld” novels by Terry Prattchet, in English or German
+ * already got “Mort”, “Guards! Guards!”, “The Color of Magic”, “The Light Fantastic”
+ * based on that, refer to the [Discworld Reading Order Guides](http://www.lspace.org/books/reading-order-guides/) for your optimal choice
* Bryan Lee O'Malley: Scott Pilgrim (for example, [this](http://www.amazon.de/Scott-Pilgrim-Boxed-Set-Poster/dp/1934964573/?tag=aflattrcom506-21) 6 Volume Set)
* Christopher Hadnagy: Social Engineering: The Art of Human Hacking. ISBN-13: 978-0470639535
* Jon Loeliger: Versionskontrolle mit Git, O'Reilly Verlag, Köln 2010. ISBN-13: 978-3897219458 (or in English: ISBN-13: 978-0596520120)
* Alexander Pawlak: Die Wissenschaft bei Douglas Adams, Wiley-VCH, Weinheim 2010. ISBN-13: 978-3527504565
* Jürgen Quade, Eva-Katharina Knust: Linux-Treiber entwickeln. ISBN-13: 978-3-89864-696-3
* Anything written by Donald E. Knuth (in English please). For the long term, “The Art of Computer Programming” would be nice to have.
+ * Already got “The Art of Computer Programming”, Volume 1.
+ * John Napier: Hands. Princeton University Press, 1993. ISBN-13: 978-0691025476
* Jeffrey Friedl: Mastering Regular Expressions. O'Reilly 1997, ISBN 1-56592-257-3
- * <strike>Stephen R. Covey: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. ISBN-13: 978-0743269513 (or in German: Die 7 Wege zur Effektivität, ISBN-13: 978-3897495739)</strike>
- * <strike>Dietmar Wätjen: Kryptographie. Grundlagen, Algorithmen, Protokolle. ISBN-13: 978-3827414311</strike> got it.
- * <strike>Günther M. Ziegler: Darf ich Zahlen? Piper Verlag, München 2010. ISBN-13: 978-3492053464</strike> got it.
Hardware
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-* Cool electronic gadgets (ideally, kits for soldering), for example:
- * a [r0ket](http://www.pollin.de/shop/dt/ODE4OTgxOTk-/Bausaetze_Module/Bausaetze/Microcontroller_Experimentierplatine_r0ket.html)
- * Mood Lamps, Blinkenthings, etc.
+ * Currently, nothing in particular.
Other Things I Could Make Use Of
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- * A [Go](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_%28game%29) set
- * financial support for conferences, like [these](http://lanyrd.com/profile/rohieb/future)
+ * A subscription to [LWN](https://lwn.net/subscribe/)
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