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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If you are running an x64 version of Windows then when you try and run an old 16-bit Windows 95 application you will see an error screen saying “This app can’t run on your PC”: To solve this:

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Website redesign! Work in progress – it looks pretty bad in IE (especially Win98 and 2000), but ace in Mozilla-based browsers, and not too bad in Konqueror, Safari and on WinXP.

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Theoretically, in the next year or two, Mozilla, Opera, Konqueror and so on might offer complete support for CSS3. But we won’t be able to take advantage of it if 85% of the audience is using a browser that still has some problems with CSS1. This is not a good thing. People have said that this means

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