I think I broke my blog… this is a test. I’m trying to get rid of all the crazy characters that showed up in old posts when I upgraded a while back…

This: ’ shows up randomly where there should be apostrophes.

Some sites suggest editing the wp-config file by removing “utf8?, so it becomes: define(’DB_CHARSET’, ”);

This got rid of the ’ … but replaced each post that contained it with only one character [an a]. That’s no good.
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I think the problem is that my database thinks it’s speaking latin1_swedish_ci and my Blog thinks it’s speaking utf-8… and all of you think I’m speaking a bunch of gibberish.

Hello tech-savvy friends.  If you rely on a feed reader to keep up to speed with Gentlewhisper.com you probably missed all the posts I’ve written since May 19th.  Sorry about that!  I think a recent upgrade messed things up a bit.  Hopefully you’ll find this in your reader and come back soon!  I think you missed about 7 posts.  Some had photos… one was pretty funny.

Hello friends, if you choose to leave me a message in the Meebo Me chat box on the right, please leave your email address and name. I’m often getting messages that I can’t respond to. Here’s the last one:

“Amy, have you heard from Joel yet? I read the news this morning. call me if you like…”

I’m not really sure who to call or even what day this was sent, because I’ve not logged into Meebo for a couple days. So um…

Thanks! Yes, I’ve heard from Joel. He’s doing well. I miss him. A Lot.

Well, Julie and Nicole… I found the folder with all my high school writing in it.  I think I’ll spare my readers the cheesy poetry… at least for now.

But I did find a letter I wrote to a national newspaper columnist back in April of 95.

And you can read it here:

Do You Believe In God?

If I’m tempted to scan and post anything else … I’ll add those links here.

Ooops, while I was fixing the categories, I messed up the comments. Everything should be working OK now. Hopefully…

Yes! It’s the first ever, slightly corny, random item giveaway.

To celebrate the first of the month, I’m going to give away 5 brand new, beautifully translucent purple Tupperware orange peelers! You know you want one!

To win an orange peeler, just leave a comment telling everyone what your favorite gentlewhisper.com post is. I want to add links to my best posts on my sidebar…but I don’t actually know what the best posts are. And so I bribe you, my beloved readers, with purple plastic!

Ok… comment even if you don’t want the peeler. But if you long to peel oranges in ease… well then include this corny phrase in your comment: “Orange you glad I commented?”

Gee… That’s nice. JamiLeigh just nominated this site as “Best Blog About Stuff.”

I think that must be the category for people who can’t seem to stay on one topic.