Back in March when I was working on my Wordpress-to-Zola exporter I'd written some PHP to generate a .zip file with my markdown site in it, but there was a problem. Although the file size was correct, opening it with Windows Explorer revealed that there were no files in it, but opening it with 7-zip showed that all the files were there as expected. Baffling!

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Right then, back to Apache for a bit until I can find time to discover what on earth is wrong with my fastcgi install! Hopefully everything works now!

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At the end of last week I upgraded my server from Ubuntu Intrepid to Jaunty (and have since gone all the way up to Lucid, a process that was not as simple as I would have liked). As far as I could tell, everything had gone smoothly, but my blog was unavailable (which I discovered very quickly thanks to the automated Pingdom emails). My blog runs on php-fastcgi b...

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The practical stuff first. In February 2009, inspired by Pete Prodoehl, I set up my own version of scuttle, an open source del.icio.us clone, and hacked it to auto-post my bookmarks to my del.icio.us account using

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