Bloody hell, I knew this whole house hunting thing was getting far too easy

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Well this is it folks, we have an accepted offer, we have passed the first stage of buying our first flat.

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Well folks, quite a few new things to talk about lately. First of all, we’re going to be heading off to California for a quick trip at the end of the month and then, house hunting is starting to become rather interesting.

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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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