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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 about 2 hours ago from TweetDeck
- Amazon Kindle 3G – initial impressions: On Tuesday my Amazon Kindle 3G + Wi-Fi arrived. And there was much rejoici... http://bit.ly/c0r2Wn about 13 hours ago from twitterfeed
- Looks like the @AmazonKindle 3 is buggy (http://bit.ly/a8GxX7) ... mine has crashed 3 times so far since yesterday. Hmm.. #kindle 09:00:49 AM September 01, 2010 from TweetDeck
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Monthly Archives: July 2008
Charting my hair loss
Charting my hair loss on 12seconds.tv Someone was teasing me today about my hair loss. But you know, there is absolutely nothing that I can do about it — it’s not that I didn’t study hard at school! — so … Continue reading
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Attention required
What a tremendous error message I received the other day while trying to synchronize Outlook with my O2 Xda Orbit (running Windows Mobile 6). In the status column opposite the Notes icon I got the message: Attention required. Above it, … Continue reading
Posted in Computer
Tagged ActiveSync, Computer, Error'd, PC, Windows, Windows Mobile, Xda Orbit
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University website on the 3G Apple iPhone
I’m filing photos just now and came across this one, taken on our little FujiFilm A920 camera, of how the University of St Andrews website renders on the new 3G Apple iPhone.
12 seconds
My first 12second update on 12seconds.tv Hoorah! Yesterday 12seconds send me an invitation to join their closed alpha of their new video status update website. As the name suggests you have 12 seconds to record your video update. This is … Continue reading
We got slideshow of the day!
Since I posted our presentation on Mind Mapping for effective content management on Slideshare yesterday I woke to discover that “IWMW 2008, Aberdeen, Scotland” was the first “Spotlight” on our presentation sharing service of choice, and more remarkably that Our … Continue reading
Posted in Web
Tagged IA, information architecture, IWMW2008, mind map, St Andrews, Web
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Mind Mapping for effective content management
A8: Mind Mapping for Effective Content Management view presentation (tags: iwmw iwmw2008 mind mapping) I’m currently in Aberdeen at the Institutional Web Management Workshop 2008 conference, blogging this during a presentation by someone at JISC. Because you can do that … Continue reading
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Tagged CMS, IA, information architecture, IWMW2008, mind map, St Andrews, Twitter, Web
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My local station
I got a promotional email from The Trainline today. Just how small do they think Scotland is? Notice the highlighted text in the top-right (rounded) corner: your local station is Scotland Great! Well I’m glad that puts an end to … Continue reading