I have a thing for houses built from shipping containers.  Here’s a particularly nice one.  Love the garage doors.

You take the biggest pool party at one of the hottest hotels in Vegas, and what do you get?

A TV show, of course.

It’s been a long time since Amazon launched a Canadian site (over 6 years ago).  In fact, I remember it because it was during my first internship with the company.  But for the longest time, it only sold media products (books, CDs, DVDs, etc) whereas the rest of Amazon’s global sites gradually expanded to many other categories.

Now, finally, Amazon.ca has launched an electronics store.  It’s about time Canada joined the future.

We used to go to quite a bit of TBirds games (Seattle’s WHL hockey team), and at the end of every game, as we streamed out of the arena, there would inevitably be someone playing the tuba just above the steps in Seattle Center.  It was a familiar sound that was a constant at every game.

But that constant is no longer.  The Tuba Man (as Ed McMichael came to be known), recently died after an assault in lower Queen Anne.

I’ll miss the tunes of A&W playing in the crisp fall air.

I’ve always wanted a universal wish list where I can add any product from any website to it.  There are actually quite a few websites that do this (like kaboodle, thisnext, wishlistr), but I don’t want to signup for yet another account on yet another web2.0 site that will inevitably fail in 12 months.

Today, I found my answer, even though it was launched 3 months ago — Amazon Universal Wish List.  It’s a bookmarklet that you add to your quick links (or Bookmarks) bar, and it will add anything from anywhere to your Amazon.com wishlist.

But that wasn’t quite enough, mainly because I hate the bookmarks bar (I think it clutters up the precious real estate on my screen.  So I took a little time, and created a greasemonkey script that adds a button to every page that you can click on.  Of course, you can set up your own inclusion and exclusion lists so that it doesn’t show up on every page.

To use this, you’ll need firefox (2 or 3), greasemonkey, and this script.

And of course, here’s my wishlist.