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Hi, I'm Gareth J M Saunders, 39 years old, 6' 4", married to Jane, father of 3 boys (twins and singleton), I'm a priest in the Scottish Episcopal Church and have a passion for Mahjong, 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.
This is my second, less formal blog.
Category Archives: Web
I the lonely girl
This is, without a doubt, one of the best emails that I’ve ever received. Even if it is spam. Hello!! I looked your structure, and you have very strongly interested me, I want to know you closer, and probably we … Continue reading
Moving to a new server
I’m in the process of moving Web servers on my main website and blog: www.garethjmsaunders.co.uk, from a really old hosting account at Webfusion to a new shiny one with Heart Internet. I’ll write more about why I’m moving at a later date, … Continue reading
Your account is among
@minifig tweeted this morning: “I guess the people who [are good] enough at English to write believable spam end up working for PR agencies, right?” Which brings me quite nicely to an example of the kind of phishing emails that … Continue reading
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My current favourite Firefox theme
This is currently my favourite Firefox theme: Elementary.
IE Death March
Can’t remember where I first saw this … or maybe someone sent me the URL. Anyway, IE Death March is a website with the following goal: It’s time to put a deadline on dropping IE6, and I say that time … Continue reading
12 Twitter tips
Again on SitePoint, article entitled “12 Ways to Get the Most Out of Twitter“. I quite liked TweetStats: measure your addiction!
JavaScript doesn’t suck!
Interesting interview with Douglas Crockford (Senior JavaScript Architect at Yahoo!) on the SitePoint website entitled JavaScript doesn’t suck. Having been reading up on Agile practices recently, I found this final piece of advice interesting: … If you had fifteen minutes … Continue reading
Microsoft and Nokia adopt jQuery
Exiting news on the jQuery blog yesterday: Both Microsoft and Nokia are taking the major step of adopting jQuery as part of their official application development platform. Not only will they be using it for their corporate development but they … Continue reading
Curmudgeons
Seriously?! There’s a group on Facebook called: “1,000,000 AGAINST THE NEW FACEBOOK LAYOUT!“ Come on folks … it’s called progress. Everything changes. Even you. Are you the same person you were five years ago? I think not. Right, I’m off … Continue reading
12seconds and Phreadz
Great to see Phreadz getting such a good write-up/name-check on the latest 12seconds newsletter: Phreadz, an amazing site out of London, UK has integrated 12seconds into their video conversation service. Need a conversation starter? Import a 12second video directly into … Continue reading
