Gracie and I have moved up to Leesburg. Contact me if you need the new address.

I have the same 703.942 phone number as before, but if you want another simple way to call me, try that “Call Me” widget on the left. Click on it and enter your name and phone number. Google Voice will call you and me and connect us. FWIW, Google Voice is a good service. If you want an invite, let me know. I have a few invites left.

Finally, speaking of “things on the left,” please notice the “Support” section. There’s a Google link there. If you use this one (it’s tied to my Google Associates account) to make a purchase, I’ll get a small cut of the sale. Using this link would be much appreciated.

Thanks.

Holy crap, these are good donuts! Seriously good donuts. They are served hot, much like Crispy Creme, but — to me at least — the cake is much better. Plus, the offer a wide variety of toppings and all kinds of pre-set combinations. Of course, if you want to try a different combination not offered, you’re welcome to do that too.

I can’t stress enough how tasty these donuts are. If there’s one not too far away and you like donuts, you really owe it to yourself to try them.

I’m a long-time WordPress user. I’ve been using it since, I believe, pre-1.0 days. Over time, the database schema and database have grown and changed. The cruft has grown. In version 2.2 of WordPress, it became possible to set the character set encoding that WordPress uses. The default is UTF-8. Unfortunately, the default for the database was Latin-1. This could lead to some problems and the Flicker Photo Album for WordPress almost requires that this get fixed up.

Luckily for me — since I know next-to-nothing about character set encoding — Joe also included a link to this page, talking about the database character set. That page, in turn, led to this page, explaining ways to convert. All gung-ho to convert, I follow the SQL and after obtaining the OK of my fellow WordPress users on this system, I planned a little outage for the conversion.

Sadly, the conversion on that page didn’t work. Luckily, I did have a backup and I did find this page. I copied that backup file, fired up vim, did a little “:%s/latin1/utf8/g”, saved, and dropped/created the new database, and inserted the edited backup. After editing the wp-config.php files to include “define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8′);”, things are back up and they look happy.

Now, to try out that Flicker Photo Album for WordPress plugin. Good thing I’m on vacation these next couple weeks.

Oh, by the way, the Subversion upgrade option for WordPress rocks.

The Giant Pool of Money

Another Frightening Show About the Economy

I love This American Life.

The two reporters who did these episodes are doing a new podcast called Planet Money. Give it a listen.

Now, to find one in the area that’s not too freaking expensive.