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As you can see, there’s an oddity with various of my WordPress posts. This is due to an apparent incompatibility or bug when upgrading from a MySQL 4 database to a MySQL 5 database.
All of this hooplah was precipitated when I attempted to upgrade to the latest version of WordPress. WordPress told me, as it did to many, many others, that my version of MySQL was outdated and that I had to update. When I contacted my host about this, they basically told me that my only hope was to update to a new hosting package that supported a later version of MySQL. Fortunately, I was able to do this without incurring any additional hosting costs (and actually the package I switched to is rather feature rich). In any event, I exported my MySQL 4 database into a newly-created MySQL 5 database, made some configuration changes, and was able to successfully update WordPress. However, upon viewing my newly-updated WordPress blog, I discovered the odd “junk” that you now see.
I’m sure a person more skilled in the ways of MySQL could fix this problem in their sleep, but unfortunately I am not that person. So, if you have any thoughts on how to fix this problem, feel free to let me know in a comment. 
That last post I did about Random Cool Stuff turned out pretty well, so I’m continuing an already successful tradition!
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Well, we fought valiantly… for the first few minutes at least. The Seahawks’ season came to a screeching, somewhat inglorious halt last night, after a 42-20 thwomping by the Green Bay Packers. The Packers played their hearts out, and you certainly have to give them credit for being–on that particular day–a better football team, but the snow clearly had an effect on the Seahawks.
