I recently mentioned that I was working on restoring some old posts that had been mangled or partially lost. Well, I’ve just finished the process. In all, it looks like maybe two posts were lost, and those were posts I’d made private at some point, so I suppose I’m not too sad about having lost them. It’s sobering seeing some of the things I wrote back when I started this blog in my later 20s, but, well, onward and upward. I am at least trying to post more thoughtful things now, and briefer things, too. My posting was really, really …
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The (Great?) Restoration, and Looking Forward
So, one of the things I’ve been doing behind the scenes, a few posts at a time, is restoring posts and comments that ended up with garbled text. Something was set up incorrectly with this blog’s database, and I had a bunch of UTF-8 text stored in the database, except the database was set to latin-1 encoding. This worked, until it didn’t. So anyway, I hired someone to fix it, and he was able to repair most of the database, but there were a couple of hundred comments and posts that had garbled text even despite the fix. (Presumably they …
고드의 한국어 블로그
I’ve updated and fixed a cache of old Korean posts on this site, dating back to 2002-2004, which used to be hosted on their own sub-blog. If that doesn’t interest you, skip this post!