Now with more utf-8!

やった!

Besides moving my site from DreamHost to Rackspace, I also upgraded to WordPress 3.0. However, the thing I am happiest about is having the database collation fixed.

I haven’t been able to type Japanese because my database couldn’t handle it. The way to fix it is complicated, and requires hacking on the database directly, something that I wasn’t inclined to do (again; I have tried it a few times over the years).

Then it came to me, export then import the site! WordPress has wicked good import/export tools, and I have used them to merge other folks’ sites before. It really worked well, since I had three difficult things to do, and was able to do them with just a little DNS hackery.

今から、日本語をべんきょうしましょう!

すごい!

Kinda amazing what changes in ten years! Let’s not forget, it takes a lot of effort to communicate, we can’t stop, we’ve got to pay it forward.