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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: April 2005
OpenOffice.org 2.0 Beta
There is a new version of OpenOffice.org in beta at the moment. The improvements made to the Writer application are noticable already. I favour Writer to MS Word (which I have a pathological hatred towards). And there is a new … Continue reading
Blog spam
I’m getting sick of blog comment spam for online casinos and poker. This evening I spent at least three minutes deleted pages and pages of it. I have a couple of anti-spam traps installed, but they are not good enough. … Continue reading
Blagovest — Russian Choir Concert
Tomorrow evening St Salvador’s church is playing host to a choir from St Petersburg, Russia called Blagovest. This will be their third visit to us, although only their second concert at St Salvador’s. The concert is at St Salvador’s Episcopal … Continue reading
How-dro Electric!
Jane and I have spent an hour puzzling over our Scottish Hydro Electric electricity bill. Last month (24 March) I received a letter from Scottish Hydro Electric informing us that our monthly direct debit amount must be increased, from £29.00 … Continue reading
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Firefox 1.0.3 released
The latest edtion of my browser of choice, Mozilla Firefox 1.0.3 has just been released. While it is still much, much more secure than Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, this latest edition includes a number of security updates and a fix … Continue reading
Adobe buys Macromedia
Surprising news in this morning’s PCPro newsletter: Adobe buys up Macromedia. Adobe is to buy Macromedia, in a deal that will create a single, dominant player in graphics and Web software. Adobe will pay $3.4bn in stock, for which it … Continue reading
(Website) update
I’ve been cracking on with rewriting the website for the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain this last week, which is why there has been a dearth of posts on my blog. (I did also take some time out to … Continue reading