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Amazon have just made a Universal Wishlist bookmarklet available.

I love having a wishlist.  It makes birthdays easy because it guarantees that I’ll like whatever I get, and it actually keeps me from spending some money.  If I know it’s impossible for me to forget that I found a movie I like (because it’s on my wishlist), I don’t have to buy it right now.  That might seem a bit strange but it’s the way my mind works.

For years Amazon has been my main wishlist repository – initially only for books, then movies, music and as they expanded their inventory, more and more.  3rd party sellers filled in the gaps, but there were still things that you couldn’t buy on Amazon, so you couldn’t put on the wishlist.  For example merchandise for web comics – they’re small, and they’ll only ever sell through their own website so there’s no chance of putting them on your Amazon wishlist.

Now with the Universal Wishlist bookmarket you can put any product from any website on your Amazon wishlist – problem solved.

In case any of you generous souls out there are interested, here’s my wishlist

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Those of you who don’t use AdBlock may have noticed that my blog is now showing public service ads instead of the usual contextual AdSense ads.

There’s a message on my AdSense account saying:

Your pages are displaying Public Service Advertisements (PSAs) because you have not verified your contact information.

I think what it’s talking about is the new phone verification system where they give you a code, you give them a phone number, they phone you up and you put the code in.  Or the other way around, I’m not really clear on it.

Here’s the Catch-22 though: I don’t have the option to perform the phone verification until I’ve earned $10, but I can’t earn any more money because it’s showing PSA’s because I haven’t performed the phone verification…

I sent a message to Google asking for help, but so far there has been no reply.