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By: DrV

DrV — Sun, 24 May 2009 19:58:22 +0000

I can’t tell the difference but I guess that was intended.

By: dragonfly

dragonfly — Sun, 24 May 2009 07:11:03 +0000

Glad you got back relatively uneventfully.

By: Gary L

Gary L — Sun, 24 May 2009 00:14:59 +0000

My motto is ‘if it ain’t broken, don’t mess with it’… Anyway, congratulations….Why the change?

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sat, 23 May 2009 21:34:35 +0000

I was wrong about the Word conversion thing; there are a bunch of posts with “â€™” where quotation marks should be. The root cause is that the UTF-8 output from Blogger was re-encoded as UTF-8 before being written into the WordPress database. This is easy to fix in an automated way by running a script against the database dump.

By: Happy Hospitalist

Happy Hospitalist — Sat, 23 May 2009 20:30:33 +0000

Welcome back wise one.

By: admin

admin — Sat, 23 May 2009 18:32:35 +0000

Thanks for the suggestions. Any ideas on how to remove the UTF-8 junk from the conversions en masse, without doing it manually?

The Lijit search box returns fine on my computer, I’ll check it on others.

I removed the spam pingbacks – thanks for that.

By: Rob

Rob — Sat, 23 May 2009 17:22:35 +0000

Congrats on the move. I am sure it was anxiety-provoking. Looks nice. I think you need a picture of a kid fighting a goat, though.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sat, 23 May 2009 16:55:43 +0000

Welcome back! You were missed.
Minor issues:
the Terms of Use Agreement has UTF-8 junk (e.g. “Authorâ€™s”) throughout, likely from Word to HTML conversion.
The Lijit search box returns a screen that cuts off the left side; I would just get rid of the frame embedding.
The “Recent Comments” list includes trackbacks (see “HEALTHY LIFE GUIDE” trackback to a spam-blog.)

Optimization suggestions:
Set the webserver up to do gz compression.
Add height and width tags to the images (especially the header) so that the browsers can lay out the page faster

By: Dr. Val

Dr. Val — Sat, 23 May 2009 16:24:46 +0000

Glad to have you back… and recharged!