Wordpress can’t figure out what character set it’s in and is spewing junk text left and right.  Will fix tomorrow, giving up for the evening.  I hate character sets.

Edit: Fixed!  It turned out that the plugin I installed to produce pdf files for things like my resume was converting all utf-8 characters on all the generated html pages, too, not just the generated pdfs.  *sigh*  Well, I won’t be using that one.

Hooray, I have a blog now!  I’ve never customized wordpress before, so I’m still trying to work out some kinks (e.g. comment errors should be displayed by the relevant form field, not on a separate page, the blog name at the top right should be a link, etc.) and the rest of the site needs to be integrated somehow.  But I thought I’d put something online now or it would never get online.  So bear with me, not-yet-existing-readership!

I’ll be using this space to discuss usability, accessibility, sociability, and perhaps other things that end in “ity”.  I’ve got a few ideas for things to write about, but I’ve never really blogged before, so we’ll see if I ever get around to writing them.  For now, I’ll leave you with my favorite error message of all time: