So yeah, if you haven’t heard by now, wordpress 2.8 is out.  If you are using the comicpress manager plugin however, it will either cause a fatal error in your wp-admin or it will screw up your archives (depending on the version of CP manager you’re using).  Best advice, DON’T automatically update to 2.8 yet and wait until all the kinks are ironed out (the most obvious update to 2.8 seems to be that it color codes your php files just like most other html editors do already).  Anyways, if you have updated and it’s screwed up, you can downgrade or follow the going’s on in the comicpress thread here.

Update by John Coswell: Fix found for non-storyline mode: in your functions.php file, about line 34:

// load all of the comic & non-comic category information
get_all_comic_categories();
change to:
// load all of the comic & non-comic category information
add_action(’init’, ‘get_all_comic_categories’);

This is and was the last change.  I promise.  Whatever comes and goes, I’ll just call it quits if I have another change of heart because lets face it, the time it takes to build any audience is pretty tiresome and anyone who has still stuck with me for the past amount of time must be getting pretty sick of moi, so, with no more ideas in my hand lets take a spin.

Well, as you have all undoubtedly heard, Conan is taking over the Tonight Show, tonight. I’ve only watched Late Night with Conan O’Brien on and off (a couple times a week at best) because I’ve stuck to The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, who is in my mind, easily the best at hilarious comebacks and awkward banter.  Either way, just thought I’d pop in a few words (especially since I haven’t wrote anything for months).

First off, for the slot Conan left behind, Jimmy Fallon will likely be noted as the worst host of Late Night thus far.  His skits are marginal and his interviews are absolutely horrible at this point.  The incessant giggling is hard to get past.  Sure, people bring up the argument that Conan was always on his last legs for the first couple years of his career but Fallon is not new to television.  Conan came in with approximately zero experience on TV, on the other hand, Fallon came in with about 10 films and over 5 years of Saturday Night Live experience.  People should try and give Fallon 6 months to a year of hosting to really make such a definitive call, but at this rate, it’s quite hard.

Now, I think many people are in agreement that when they look back at Jay Leno’s run at the Tonight Show, it was a fairly dismal effort.  Leno was never that engaging to me and he was always a dubiously “safe” host that never really hit his stride with the monologues, skits, and especially the interviews.  Comparatively, people have noted that Letterman has also become safe in his own right, and that is true.  Still, Letterman can still bring his own snide brand of humor that was so popular in the 80s and early 90s back every now and again showing to all that he still has a spark in him.  What I think most people fear is that Conan will become toned down, and I think unless his college crew move with him to that 11:30 slot, he will have to, just like Letterman.  It’s going to and has been interesting watching all the late night transitions this year, the capper is probably tonight.