Garbled Fred
Yesterday, I registered with LinkedIn and sent out a few invitations to people I know who also have an account.
Sadly enough, LinkedIn didn’t like my name, Frédéric, quite as much as I do, so the invitation emails ended up being signed like this:
I’d like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn.
-Frédéric
I reported the bug and hope they fix it soon. For now, I replaced my “é”s by regular “e”s but of course they are only half as nice 
Sorry for the inconvenience to everyone who though “who the heck is that?” when receiving my email.
(Thanks to Brandon and morgamic who told me about the problem.)
October 15th, 2007 at 12:42 am
Hehe, yeah, I switched it to http after a few problems with my SSL CA. I only wanted the admin pages to be encrypted anyway, but the Wordpress SSL plugin didn’t quite spare the public pages. :-/
Btw. I “fixed” the entities for you so they show up the way you intended.
October 15th, 2007 at 12:39 am
Sigh. Let’s try putting the characters on separate lines:
&
#
1
9
5
;
&
#
1
7
4
;