Until you'd mentioned it Jeanie, I hadn't noticed the odd things popping up in my entries.  I've noticed them in Afton and Holliday's blogs too.  I think AD is right, it has something to do with putting more than one space between characters.  I'm a 2-space between a period and the next sentence person, just like Mrs. Brown, my typing teacher taught me and that seems to be mostly where the odd characters are showing up.  Now though, AD said she gets question marks.  Is that what you're seeing in my entries?  Because I'm seeing little squares in mine and Afton's and Holliday's, nothing in Jeanie's or AD's (those are the only Bravenet blogs I regularly visit).  So...why in some peoples but not in others?  Did Jeanie and AD not have Mrs. Brown for typing and the rest of us did?  Or, could it be something more sinister.  They've both made Journal of the week recently.  Maybe JOTW people get preferential treatment from the PTB at Bravenet and the rest of us  peons just have to suck it up and suffer with odd looking little squares or risk Mrs. Brown retroactively changing our typing grades to an F on our permanent record.  Someone once referred to Bravenet as "the Pong of online blogs" and I might have to agree with them.  If they don't start getting some updated features like automatic save and easier picture insertion, I might move over to Blogger, despite the pain it would be to switch.

I've been thinking of moving to Blogger for some time now. I use it for other things and it really is nicer. I'm just so lazy ...

Anyway, DD, I'm seeing little squares with four tiny letters inside them. And I also see them in AD, Afton and Holliday's blogs, so that lets out the JOTW thing, I guess.

And I also learned to type on a manual typewriter and was taught to always put in two spaces after a period. But then when I started in my career, that was not how things were done on the computer, so I am out of the habit now.

I looked at your blog earlier and saw the symbols you mentioned. Now I am looking at it again with the same computer in the same house, and everything is fine. huh!?!

I believe the Bravenet people fixed whatever the problem was. All the symbols are gone now.