Just a quick note to let you all know I did a guest comic for Antoine Gagnon while he was away on vacation. You can check it out over at The Drunken Fools…which is a GREAT comic btw, produced by a fellow WCPC member, so you should visit it and bookmark it and read every update!

Okay, we here at the Grove usually don’t like to involve politics with the comedy, but this time, politics is getting involved with comedy in a big way.

Petition to Fire David Letterman over a joke he’s apologized repeatedly for

Give me a break! This is just Sarah Palin postering to get more media coverage, extending her 15 minutes of fame in the spotlight. If she had never been plucked from obscurity to run as the GOP VP candidate, this all would have never happened…at all…no joke, no protest, no blowing anything out of proportion. But now it seems to have all gone to her head and she is on a crusade to show how much power she thinks she should have. I mean, really…it was a joke (true a joke in poor taste, but David Letterman has apologized repeatedly…how many times should one repeat an apology before the Palin camp…one who touts being Christian and such…accepts it and lets this die?) and that is it. How many politicians families have been the brunt of late night talk show jokes over the many, many years these shows have been on the air? Too many to count!

And as I have mentioned, if Sarah Palin is the true Christian she claims to be, isn’t one of the tenets of Christianity to forgive and not hold a grudge? Which is another thing we here at the Grove do not like to mix into the humor, talking about religion. But I cannot hold my tongue on this one because of the hypocrisy I see repeated over and over in this country by the Christian Taliban here. There was a rumor that this country was founded on freedom of religion…sure, you are free to practice their religion. You are free to follow like blind, mindless lemmings the path they choose for you…what to watch, what to read, what to surf the internet for, all while they are not practicing what they preach.

To the Honorable Sarah Palin, please, I ask you so very politely, please accept David Letterman’s apology once and for all, call off the protesters and go back to governing your state. Your 15 minutes of fame as the advocate of Joe Six-Pack the Plumber are over. You have 3 years to plot your next move into the spotlight.

*steps off his soapbox*

Well, I tried to upgrade my WordPress from 2.7.1 to 2.8 today. Did a backup of my current site, or at least I thought I did. Went out to dinner and left the FTP proggy running. Came back and the FTP program was not running so I thought it had finished and closed the program. I then started the autoupgrade (which I found is a mistake to begin with) and had to use my FTP program for another client. When I started it up, it surprised me with continuing downloading the site!….GASP!

Trying to access my dashboard, I got a blank white screen instead. HORROR! Trying a few times to reload the page from the backup didn’t seem to do the trick…in fact, the whole WG page went down to a blank white page!….ACK! Okay, deep breath…now what?

Firing up twitter, I got a reply from Einar Lunden over at Cock & Bull Webcomic that he was having the same problem and that Comicpress-Manager was the culprit. I found a site that said if this happens to rename all the plug-in folders to another name and then try to reach your dashboard…I did that and was able to log in. One by one, I renamed the plug-in folders back to their original names except for comicpress-manager and was still able to log in. I renamed comicpress-manager back to its original name and boom! can’t log in. After renaming it again, I logged back in and upgraded the CPM to 1.4.5 and bing! CPM is back and so is my site and the ability to log into the dashboard. So thanks again to all the help and to the authors of this page which gave me clues to how to proceed. True, it deals with this blank page after upgrading to WP 2.7, but it still applied in this case.

If you are planning to upgrade to WP 2.8 and are using CPM 1.4.4 or earlier, please…please….please save yourself a headache and upgrade CPM before you upgrade WP.