Standing On Boxes

I’ve been saving my fics on the server (http://words.neocows.net/fics ) using my favorite Mac (free) text editor ( TextWrangler) as I move them over from the old site. They are UTF-8 w/Unix linefeed.

But… I have a meta tag setting the character set to text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1

Firefox seems to have a problem with that. Safari deals with it okay.
(I know it’s the character set because the problem goes away in Firefox if I set the character set to UTF-8)

Something to fix. Before I get too much further into this adventure.

Fixed.

Maybe it’s just when I do things from the WordPress admin interface but…

I’m using the default Yahoo WordPress database config — meaning I told the Yahoo site manager interface to install WordPress for me. Not sure what it does but occasionally it comes to a staggering halt when doing some database operation. It eventually recovers but it really shouldn’t do that.

So don’t panic! I’m looking into it. (And it only affects the blog, not anything else I have on the site.)

Can Stephen Colbert Save the U.S. Speedskating Team? – TIME

Not sure what to think about this… I wonder if it’ll catch on.