http://blog.garethjmsaunders.co.uk The Revd Gareth J M Saunders' weblog Mon, 12 May 2008 07:11:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Saturday Team Weir with Jane outside the Potting Shed On Saturday my good friend Andrew Weir came to visit with his lovely wife Jenny and 9 weeks old daughter Beth. I first met Andrew back in wheneveritwas (1999?) when I was invited to play bass guitar for the Powerpoint Edinburgh band. The ... http://blog.garethjmsaunders.co.uk/archives/2008/05/12/a-weekend-of-friends-and-family/ So there I was, playing with my food at lunch and I appear to have accidentally created the next Turner Prize. For those who might not know about the Turner Prize: The Turner Prize is a contemporary art award that was set up in 1984 to celebrate new developments in contemporary art. The ... http://blog.garethjmsaunders.co.uk/archives/2008/05/11/gloucestershire-zeitgeist/ This week I've been sorting out a pile of CDs that have been been slowly working its way up skywards, like a compact tower of Babel. They've been mostly music CDs from the covers of Metal Hammer, Rock Sound and Terrorizer magazines, but there were also a couple of guitar tuition ... http://blog.garethjmsaunders.co.uk/archives/2008/05/11/disaster-recovery-kit/ Today I got the following email message from a viewer: Question Can you please confirm something for me. I have recently finished reading 'Join me' by the legend that is Mr. Wallace, after reading it I mentioned to a work colleague that I myself was going to start doing random acts of ... http://blog.garethjmsaunders.co.uk/archives/2008/05/07/hemispheres/ Photograph by Tuvi from stockxpert Every week I get an email newsletter from The Alban Institute. Each issue contains a leading article, usually about some area of church leadership, followed by a few book reviews and adverts about upcoming US-based seminars and workshops. It's really interesting if you're into that sort ... http://blog.garethjmsaunders.co.uk/archives/2008/05/05/eucharist-as-a-way-of-life/ On Wednesday evening I sat down at my PC and tried to scan a document on my Epson Perfection 1670 Photo scanner. Troubleshooting I placed the document on the scanner's glass, closed the lid and fired up the scanning software (Epson Scan). Scanning ... Nothing. I tried again. Again nothing. Every time I tried ... http://blog.garethjmsaunders.co.uk/archives/2008/05/03/epson-perfection-v200/ Screenshot of the new code, with debugging background colours (greys) showing. I've spent much of today working on an XHTML/CSS code rewrite for the University of St Andrews website. Based on feedback from staff and students, having used the site for the best part of the last year and the desire to ... http://blog.garethjmsaunders.co.uk/archives/2008/04/22/the-pastoral-issues-of-wrestling-with-ie5win/ It's been a crazy week since I got back from Birmingham that I'm only now getting around to writing about it. But what a superb weekend, packed with great friends, good food and much laughter. Jane and I drove down on Friday, arriving in the city of a thousand trades in ... http://blog.garethjmsaunders.co.uk/archives/2008/04/17/nycgb-25th-anniversary-weekend/ I'm off now for a few days to Birmingham to take part in the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain's 25th anniversary gala concert as part of the exNYCgb choir. I'll not be blogging, but you can follow my goings on at Twitter: www.twitter.com/garethjms. http://blog.garethjmsaunders.co.uk/archives/2008/04/11/off-to-birmingham-to-sing/ I've got to a point working on my current Website design project where I'm needing to test the code in a variety of browsers keep track of which browsers still have issues with the code Toolbar So I took my own advice and created a new toolbar which I now have as part of ... http://blog.garethjmsaunders.co.uk/archives/2008/04/09/testing-browsers/