In some cases, the default codec used by PyYAML is not UTF-8, so loading
the song quotes database fails. Using the `codecs.open` helper function
ensures that the contents of the file are always read with the correct
character set.
Since I took down my S3 bucket and CloudFront distribution, the images
on dustin.hatch.name do not display. They are small enough and the site
has so little traffic that serving them from the main server is fine.
