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Hi, I'm Gareth J M Saunders, 38 years old, 6' 4", married to Jane, father of twins (with another on the way), I'm a priest in the Scottish Episcopal Church and have a passion for Mah Jong, Psion PDAs and web design.
I am employed as the Assistant Information Architect / Web Manager at the University of St Andrews.
My main interests are HTML, CSS (inc. frameworks), jQuery, Information Architecture and Agile development.
Twitter @garethjms- My @AmazonKindle is perfect for reading the latest edition of the free PDF Productive! magazine from @MichaelNozbe
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Monthly Archives: December 2004
If Carlsberg made Christmas…
In many pubs and cinemas around town you can pick up free promo postcards for all sorts of things: films, alcohol, the armed services, clothing, etc. Months and months ago I picked up a handfull of postcards at Bar 38 … Continue reading
Calendar Reform
Professor Dick Henry at John Hopkins University in the US has proposed a new, revised calendar that would mean that every date falls on the same day of the week each year. So, for example, my birthday (11 November) would … Continue reading
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Comments, part 3
Comments are back on now. I’ve added a new anti-spam trap. This requires users to preview their comments before they are posted. Seemingly this trips-up a number of automated spam scripts. I can only try. I know that the preview … Continue reading
Open-source mug
(aka Look what I made!)
For my birthday last month my brother- and sister-in-law, Paul and Pauline, gave me a Paint Your Own Mug kit. After I finished writing my sermon yesterday evening I decided to give it a go. Hmm… what to put on … Continue reading
DIY
Today, I rearranged my desk. That’s just how exciting today was! Actually, I put up my old TV wall bracket. Twice. We found the bracket in the garage in our house in Inverness, and since nobody had claimed it within … Continue reading
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Prague
Jane’s radio-alarm woke me up around 3:45am this morning. Radio 1′s early-morning film-review show was on. Within a few seconds Jane reached over and blearily hit the snooze button. “I was listening to that!” I protested. Jane laughed and ignored … Continue reading
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Little Empire, part 5
I’m going to stop promising which will be the last scene I post today. This one was mine: LEIA: (softly) Dantooine. [Leia lowers her head.] LEIA: They’re on Dantooine. TARKIN: There. You see Lord Vader, she can be reasonable. (addressing … Continue reading