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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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Category Archives: General
What’s a kitchen?!
Who you gonna call? Not me…! A few years ago, around about the end of May 2006, I signed up for the Telephone Preference Service (TPS). I know that because I have a letter from them confirming that I had … Continue reading
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Tagged bedroom, kitchen, phone, spam, Telephone Preference Service, TPS
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Wisdom tooth extraction
On Monday morning I walked down to our local dentists’ surgery here in Anstruther, looking out over the harbour, and to the noise of what sounded like my jaw being cracked open I had my lower-left wisdom tooth removed. It had … Continue reading
Reorganising and rearranging
It all started this morning when I said to Jane if she minded me hoovering and mopping the floors downstairs. Of course she didn’t mind! A couple of months ago we had a cleaner — a wonderfully practical joint Christmas … Continue reading
Getting my head around our finances
One of the reasons that I’ve not been blogging as much as I would have liked to these last few weeks is that I’ve been trying to get my head around our finances. It’s not been a particularly easy task, … Continue reading
Non-specific Election 2010
Someone at church yesterday morning asked for my opinion on the General Election. “I’m not referring to it as a General Election,” I said. “I’m calling it a Non-specific Election!” I remember the enormous excitement of Labour coming to power … Continue reading
Planning Study 2.0
This evening I’ve been using Floorplanner.com to see whether it’s feasible or not to move my study from what used to be the garage to what is currently the fourth bedroom (affectionately known as ‘the bunk room’). Jane and I … Continue reading
Dealing with spam
There’s a really interesting article in this month’s PC Plus magazine about the war against spam which gave me the impetus to try to do something about those annoying spam messages that appear in my inbox with my email address … Continue reading