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I’ve had on going issues with mySQL not defaulting to UTF8 and instead using Latin1 constantly. After searching around a bit on the mySQL forums, I seem to have found a series of settings that put a halt to the problem once and for all. Just add these settings to your my.cnf file:

[mysqld]
default-character-set=utf8
default-collation=utf8_bin
collation_server=utf8_bin
[mysql]
default-character-set=utf8

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I’ve found a new pass time.
http://www.fmylife.com/
“Today, my friend drove me me to catch the 8 pm train. Running late, we screeched into the parking lot at 7:57, stopped the car in a ‘no stop’ zone. I said goodbye to my friend, sprinted to my train and barely made it. Then, with the train in motion, [...]

2000 election: Winner=George Bush
2004 election: Winner=George Bush
2008 election
’nuff said.

Over the past few days I’ve run across of few random blog entries with the words “om nom nom nom”. So today I was like “ok, WTF am I missing out on here.” So I do a google so search and low and behold, yet another internet meme gets yet another victim.

http://omnomnomnom.com/
Cute, [...]

1 crappy company + 1 crappy company = 1 crappy bloated company. I would complain this is a monopoly if I had any faith in the industry. Their stocks haven’t budged, I wonder why.
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