cardus.com » Web http://www.cardus.com Sean Cardus's Website Wed, 06 Apr 2011 13:43:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 New year, New Theme http://www.cardus.com/2009/02/06/new-year-new-theme/ http://www.cardus.com/2009/02/06/new-year-new-theme/#comments Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:57:06 +0000 Sean http://www.cardus.com/2009/02/06/new-year-new-theme I’ve finally found a new WordPress theme that I like – So out with the old fixed-width(ish) browns & greens, and in are the new dynamic-width whites & blacks of the Atahualpa Theme.

I’ve also replaced the default banner images of fruit & trees with some banners snipped from my photo collection.  They’ve turned out much better than I thought they would – Not bad for 5 mins work with Paint.NET :)

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Google EPIC Fail

Update: Looks like someone at Google noticed.  Everything's back to normal for me now...

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So this post is just to test all that lot is working correctly :)

]]> http://www.cardus.com/2008/12/23/testing-stuff/feed/ 0 Google Reader is really starting to bug me http://www.cardus.com/2008/05/06/google-reader-is-really-starting-to-bug-me/ http://www.cardus.com/2008/05/06/google-reader-is-really-starting-to-bug-me/#comments Tue, 06 May 2008 19:56:48 +0000 Sean http://www.cardus.com/2008/05/06/google-reader-is-really-starting-to-bug-me There's an annoying bug in Google Reader that causes the unread article count to increment before you're actually able to view the article.

Eg:

Google-Reader-Annoyance

The problem first reared its ugly head a few months back, with it happening more frequently over the past week or so.

Is it just me, or is it annoying the hell out of anyone else too? :)

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My transparent bridging post had been altered to include a bit of HTML code to call an external URL in an IFRAME. I've no idea what was on that page, but no doubt it was malicious content targeting unpatched web browsers.

This Stopbadware blog post has more info...

All clear now!...

]]> http://www.cardus.com/2008/02/23/oops-looks-like-i-was-hosting-dodgy-content-after-all/feed/ 0 Apparently I’m hosting dodgy content http://www.cardus.com/2008/02/18/apparently-im-hosting-dodgy-content/ http://www.cardus.com/2008/02/18/apparently-im-hosting-dodgy-content/#comments Mon, 18 Feb 2008 11:46:25 +0000 Sean http://www.cardus.com/2008/02/18/apparently-im-hosting-dodgy-content/ I just performed a quick search on Google for a couple of keywords I knew appeared on my website and discovered the following:

Google Error

Apparently, the information about building a traffic shaper may harm your computer if you view it!  Err, I think not!  I've submitted a review request to Google and StopBadware.org to figure out WTFs happening here.

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As I'm writing this, I'm looking at a WYSIWYG view of pretty much what my post will look like on the site - Complete with CSS styles etc applied.

Windows_Live_Writer_Beta

Seems pretty funky and so far is much nicer to use than the WordPress built-in editor.

]]> http://www.cardus.com/2007/05/31/testing-windows-live-writer/feed/ 0 Want to sound like you work at CTU? http://www.cardus.com/2007/01/25/want-to-sound-like-you-work-at-ctu/ http://www.cardus.com/2007/01/25/want-to-sound-like-you-work-at-ctu/#comments Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:52:30 +0000 Sean http://www.cardus.com/2007/01/25/want-to-sound-like-you-work-at-ctu/ Gordon's just sent me the URL of quite probably the best ringtone site I've visited (probably because I dont recall ever visiting a ringtone site)

Are you sad enough to want to reproduce that distinctive CTU ringtone from the TV series '24' on your mobile phone?

Well, I am. So I worked out the RTTTL code needed to get it on my little Nokia 8210.

But that was just the start of the story. Ever since I posted the code here back in 2003, along with the reference samples I used in order to work it out, a lot of equally sad people have sent me versions of the ringtone in different formats.

So here they are, for all your hey-look-at-me-I'm-Jack-Bauer needs

http://www.ccir.ed.ac.uk/~jad/ringtone.html

I should probably get out more...

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]]> http://www.cardus.com/2007/01/24/xkcdcom-the-problem-with-wikipedia/feed/ 0 Internet Explorer v7 on its way… http://www.cardus.com/2006/10/20/internet-explorer-v7-on-its-way/ http://www.cardus.com/2006/10/20/internet-explorer-v7-on-its-way/#comments Fri, 20 Oct 2006 09:15:01 +0000 Sean http://www.cardus.com/2006/10/20/internet-explorer-v7-on-its-way/ Microsoft have finally released IE7...  In order for people to prepare for the update madness thats about to happen, the IE team have published details of the roll-out plan.

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I dont update this page very often, but whenever I've felt like adding something blogger.com has been really sluggish. So, this evening I've decided to give WordPress a shot.  Being able to manage posts directly on my own server is so much nicer and quicker than using a really slow 3rd party server which then uploads the changes via a really slow FTP connection...

I've been a Fotopic member since April 2003 and they've been great the whole time I've used them. However, I've now got oodles of spare disk space in my server so it makes sense to use some of it :) I'm now using Gallery2 to host my photos and so far I'm very pleased with the results.

I suppose the default templates for WordPress & Gallery look ok, but at some point I'm going to have to break play around with them...

]]> http://www.cardus.com/2006/10/14/website-updates/feed/ 0 The Cardus Family… http://www.cardus.com/2004/10/31/the-cardus-family/ http://www.cardus.com/2004/10/31/the-cardus-family/#comments Sun, 31 Oct 2004 10:22:37 +0000 Sean http://www.cardus.com/wordpress/2004/10/31/the-cardus-family/ Wow - Its been a while since I looked at this blog... *blows the dust off*Inspired by a recent email from Friends Reunited, I've signed up for an account at Genes Reunited.I hope to be able to put as much info I can find into my new family tree page but I know I'm going to need lots of help. If there's any other Cardus' out there with family tree info - Drop me a line, we could be related! :) ]]> http://www.cardus.com/2004/10/31/the-cardus-family/feed/ 0 Social Networks… http://www.cardus.com/2004/08/19/social-networks/ http://www.cardus.com/2004/08/19/social-networks/#comments Thu, 19 Aug 2004 08:37:34 +0000 Sean http://www.cardus.com/wordpress/2004/08/19/social-networks/ I've had an Orkut account for a while, and spent a few hours updating it, adding my friends and exploring the groups... And havent really logged back in again since...Now I've been invited and joined another "Social Network"... This time its Multiply - Is this going to be another "log in, update, never go back again" fad?...Time will tell ;) ]]> http://www.cardus.com/2004/08/19/social-networks/feed/ 0