After I upgraded my last wordpress installation on my blog and on Green Is Sexy, strange characters were appearing in our content throughout the site. There seemed to have been encoding problems with apostrophes (’), quotation marks (”) and hyphens (-). They’d be displayed as question marks or ’.
Turns out that the fix [...]

Background
In the past I’ve always been a big fan of hosting my own email server and accesing it by IMAP. However, as the years have gone on, my free time to administer the box has dwindled making email hosting very difficult. Luckily the revamped “web 2.0″ email services have gotten so good in the [...]