Migration Pains

Posting has been a little light due to spending time completing the migration of this blog from the old server to the new one.  The biggest problems have been with unrecognizable characters being inserted into posts from the restored sql backups.  I think the errors came from compression issues with the WordPress backup utility.

I tried editing the SQL file directly, using WordPress plugins, but it was no real help.  I eventually had to touch almost every post on the blog to delete the old characters that looked like:  ?

I used the opportunity to put a google ad banner on each post, so do me a favor and click one of those banners.