I seem to be making an awful lot of news posts lately. Recently my host changed servers so that baldninja.com was located somewhere else.  Since it thusly had a new IP address and such thing take time to propogate, you may not have been able to get on the site.  I see by my traffic this morning, that much more of you were able to find me today.

That's a good sign, except that the server move also wiped out all the cron jobs, which means that the automatic update script did not run, which means today's comic did not get moved into the public folders, which means that you got served a nice big broken image for today's comic until I fixed it this morning.  The RSS feed sufferred similar problems.

Interestingly, it seems my hosting is paid for through June 9, 2007, which has a month (and year) far removed from what I was expecting. Apparently all these server screwups keep pushing my plan's end date back further and further.  With any luck, these screwups will keep occurring at the minimum rate for me to never have to pay for hosting again; at least not until the comic grows large enough that I need more than 50GB bandwidth/month. If you are feeling altruistic, tell all your friends, forums, and livejournals about me so that that can happen.

One last bit of new, so to speak... I'm debating buying a new domain for the comic. Something with "fodi" in it. Is there any opposition to this? I would buy fodi.com, except the people who control it apparently think that it is worth about $5000.  If anyone has $5000 to donate for the domain name cost, feel free to donate it. No takers?  Right, I didn't think so. On the otherhand fodi.net is a much more reasonable $900. Yeah right. What about fodi.org, you say? Well unless I want to join the Foundation of Operative Dentistry of India, I think that one is right out.

Don't forget you can donate $1 or more to get a free wallpaper that you probably don't need. That's a whole 0.02% of the way towards fodi.com! (In all seriousness, donations always go towards the comic... which pretty much means it pays for domain name registration and art supplies now, since I'll never have to pay for hosting again, it seems.)

Note that the "buy this site" form includes a text box for the amount you're willing to pay for the site.  Just because they FEEL it's worth ~$5000 doesn't mean that they've gotten any offers near that amount, or any offers at all for that matter.  It can't hurt to send an offer for what you'd actually be willing to pay.  After all, it's costing them money every month to keep that domain registered.  If their best offer in the last 3 years is $100, they might well take it.  

Also note that Fodi.com has a disclaimer at the bottom stating that they are NOT in the business of registering and then re-selling copyrighted names, and that you should tell them if you own the copyright on any of their web pages.  That being as it is, if you've registered or copyrighted Fodi as your own, and you did so BEFORE they bought it, they may be willing to hand it over at a reduced price, though I would attempt buying it outright before mentioning that you own the copyright or a webcomic named Fodi, as an unscrupulous company may use that information to hold the site ransom.

I did actually offer them $50 at one point, but I believe that seems to have fallen into the "So low we will not respond to you" category.

However, as I have not registered Fodi as a copyright with any legal body, I'm not sure how any claims of owning the copyright will hold out.

We shall see. I'm patient enough.

This is The Agent speaking...

Well, it would make more since to move to a fodi.something since that is the name of the comic, but.....baldninja.com jsut sounds so cool.