Archives for June, 2008

30
Jun

I eat boxes for breakfast

I eat boxes for breakfast

After what seemed like the longest weekend of my entire life – packing, loading, moving, unloading, unpacking, sleeping – we have reached probably 80% completion on our move. Sure, there are still a few boxes glaring at us from each bedroom, our garage is still coated with boxes of Christmas past, but at least we can see the floor in our kitchen – and oh [...]

27
Jun

Houses are glorious <<-insert will farrell voice here

Houses are glorious

Today marks a day to go down in Chris & Jennie Fay history – we officially closed on our new house! It was a long and marginally painful process, but in the end we landed a great house in a great area, and I couldn’t be more excited to ditch apartment living. We were so excited that we decided to blow a heap of gas [...]

14
Jun

Fix odd characters in Wordpress posts

Fix odd characters in Wordpress posts

I noticed recently that my Wordpress data had some funky characters in almost every post:
Examples:
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After browsing through the posts it looks like those characters represent things like quotations, dashes and double periods. I read through various forums that said this is caused due to the encoding and collation, however after following the recommendations of sites like http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/0…to-version-22/ I was still unable to get rid of [...]