On Saturday I got myself a new sword. I’d been looking for a decent looking weapon to use for sabre sparring (i.e. not the Hanwei Practical Sabre) for quite some time now, and so far had only been able to find nice but expensive antiques.

This time I got myself the following:

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Just a quick one. I’ve just been struggling with getting IE (both versions 6 and 7) to download a simple pdf. It was working fine in Opera and Firefox but IE would just block the download.

The issue was caused by php headers not being defined properly.

So remember that if you have your file type being defined as

header("Content-type: application/force-download");

it will not work in IE. Instead use the header

header("Content-type: application/octet-stream");

Hopefully this helps somebody.
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I was talking to Hugh, a friend of mine, earlier about ways and means to achieve success in the great web battle for Google ranking and it occurred to me that this site currently doesn’t really have much of a purpose it only to accommodate my irregular trails of thoughts that only means something to myself …
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Sometimes you correlate thoughts and actions which are usually not connected at all but when you think about it a little, it can be quite interesting.

Today I’ve had my second guitar lesson and it opened up new things in ways I should have realised long before…
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