Archive for June, 2008
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 [...]
Tagged as Home + Categorized as Babbling
Houses are glorious <<-insert will farrell voice here
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 [...]
Categorized as Babbling
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 [...]
Tagged as PHP, Programming, Wordpress + Categorized as Programming/PHP, Programming