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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: March 2007
Toddlers + paint – adults = mess + expense
I came across this picture again today, originally spotted on Digg.com a few months back, entitled “Why you shouldn’t leave a gallon of paint with unsupervised toddlers“. I don’t even want to think about where they started cleaning up; I … Continue reading
Troubleshooting broadband connection problems
This week I learned something important about technical support call centres: they can sometimes be more “call centre” than “technical support”. Tuesday On Tuesday I called BT Broadband Support (0845 600 7030) because I was experiencing connection problems (no, really, … Continue reading
Iron Maiden on Live From Abbey Road
I’ve just learned that Iron Maiden will appear on (UK) Channel 4′s Live From Abbey Road show tomorrow evening (Friday 30 March), to be repeated the following Monday on Channel 4. This is the last in the series and sees … Continue reading
Patient’s patience
The worst thing about being ill is the being ill bit of it. Two weeks ago my body was working fairly well. I won’t pretend that I had the physique of an Olympic athlete, or that I was a paradigm … Continue reading
Do not pass ‘Go’
It’s funny the things you think of when lying ill in bed. For example, this afternoon — in between angry calls to BT Broadband Support (again!) — I got to thinking about Monopoly and how I’ve never actually ever finished … Continue reading
Surprise news
Believe it or not, I didn’t do any blogging last week. Oh, I know that blog posts appeared on the site each day but I actually wrote those two Fridays ago, while watching Comic Relief, and scheduled them to appear … Continue reading
Clergy honorifics (not titles)
Photo by tome213 at stock.xchng. Do you know what makes pedantic priests like me happy? Yeah, apart from people loving the Lord Jesus with all their hearts. I’ll tell you: it’s people who get clergy titles right and include the … Continue reading