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My blog database was corrupted. The weird thing, I lost only this year posts and comments. My ISP said they had a server problem – not sure what was that… Fortunately, I did a backup on 22 Oct 2009. All in between that date and 02 November 2009 get lost, sorry for that.

There were some comments, especially one about BLUG*OS*CON – announcing that the organizers changed the copy of the event website – which now looks professionally. Thank you.

Back to technical side, I would like to share some findings; perhaps some of you would need in the future if you use WordPress. The older WP version used latin1 encoding. The new version (after 2.2) is using utf-8. This is why when I restored the db, somehow the encoding matched wrong and I had many weird characters in the copy. I tried first this plug-in – “UTF-8 Database Converter” but didn’t work well. Finally, this one did the work well: UTF-8 DB Converter.

I started this blog almost 4 years ago (I cannot believe it how time passed…) when I started eLiberatica and ROSI. After that, I didn’t touch it much, just publishing time to time. I think is time for an improvement, so in the next period I plan to do an update, a modern looking one, like the one I developed for my actual company. More announcements about eLiberatica will come in December or January.