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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.
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Monthly Archives: September 2007
Scotland v Italy: post-match round-up
I’m exhausted having watched the Scotland v Italy game this evening. Exhausted and relieved that Scotland won by the narrowest of margins (18 – 16), and only thanks to Bortolussi failing to slot a 77th minute penalty. It wasn’t an … Continue reading
Commonwealth of rugby
It’s been nice to see the colonies playing so well today at the Rugby World Cup. New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Fiji, Wales and Scotland — six out of the eight sides playing today — are all members of the Commonwealth … Continue reading
Operation Check Every CD Case™
Yesterday evening I decided that I should like to listen to the soothing tones of Halford: Just to clarify, I do not mean Halfords (with an ‘s’), high street purveyor of car accessories, components and bicycles (at the Bike Hut). … Continue reading
Ricky Gervais at Edinburgh Castle
Something I’ve been meaning to blog about since last month (26 August 2007): Jane bought me two tickets to see Ricky Gervais performing at Edinburgh Castle during the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. She bought me two tickets and said that I … Continue reading
Two visits to hospital
The last couple of days have had a strong hospital theme to them. One was a planned visit, the other wasn’t. Monday On Monday Jane and I went over to Dundee for a meeting and more tests to try to … Continue reading
Borders Scrap Store website launched
Late last week the Borders Scrap Store website was finally launched. I had fun designing and building it. Here are a few features that I’m proud about: Dynamic site on a static host The site is built using XHTML 1.0 … Continue reading
FontLab SigMaker 3
I love typography, fonts and all that jazz. In my time I’ve created a couple of rather pathetic-looking handwriting fonts, and compiled a couple of fonts for use with mahjong documents, but I’d love to create a good, professional-looking font. … Continue reading