Friday. July 9th, 2010.

A lot of you have been wondering what happened to Ninjabi. It's still here, sorry for the lack of updates. That's what happens when you have a job sometimes. It sucks the life out of you. But I have been working on things for Ninjabi. I'm going to get prototype dolls with custom embroidery on them for you guys! How neat would that be? It could say a greeting like, "Ramadan Mubarak," or have a name on it, like "Noor," or ANYTHING. It could even be in arabic! So look forward to that.

Enjoy the new comic! It's just something I've always thought of since we tend to shorthand a lot of arabic online, "PBUH," "AH," "SLMZ," "WS," what would that be like in real life?

Sunday. January 10th, 2010.

Hopefully you've never experienced a harddrive fail on you. But, if you have, you'll understand the great lengths we go thru to fix it. I mean, that harddrive has our pictures, our music, our work, our programs and games. To lose one is a traumatic experience. You spend a week trying to revive it, maybe put it in the freezer and hope that it runs long enough for you to backup your data. Or maybe you leave it alone, hoping that it decides to wake up, almost saying, "Hey, I missed you too." Perhaps you get all your geek-nerd friends to help diagnose the cause, because, i mean you took SUCH great care of it by not kicking it when it crashed on you before and losing your important document, maybe dusting it once in awhile. And you pray to your respective God(s) [or the computer gods, whomever they may be] hoping it fixes itself.

Whatever the scenerio, anyone that has worked with a computer has had it do something irratic, and left you devastated. If petting a goat brought it back to normal, you know you would do it. And you would do it EVERYTIME from there-on.

Anyway, to discuss and share YOUR "technical difficulty" stories, go to the Forum.

Other things : the store wasn't working correctly after I updated it, and I had to reinstall it. It should be fine now. I then went and picked up a theme for the blog as well. I changed the forum back to PhpBB3 and its pretty cool. I know you don't care, but these things take a lot of time, unfortunately.

So I think for a little while I want to work on making more comics and try not to worry about the extra things.

Sunday. October 18th, 2009.

New comic! I know, I know, I'm horrible. Anyway, enjoy the comic. If it doesn't make sense be sure to check out the forum for more details and discussions on the comic.

It was my birthday last week, and my friends and I went to the wax museum. It was fun. Since then I've been just doing work. Either job related or freelance. It's taken up a great portion of my time, but I felt like doing something creative and comicy, so here it is.

I really want this new Wacom tablet. It's awesome! I'm trying to save up for it. I also want a better workstation, where I fit. I got the LG Lotus phone, it's purple and has pretty swirls on it! It's beautiful. I just wish the interface was more customizable.

Upcoming changes : I want to change the forum back from vBulletin to PhpBB. It was just better in my opinion. I also want to change the comment systems on the comics. Maybe instead of me just doing it, I just hire someone to take care of that for me. I'm also thinking of a site design change. I most likely won't, this design suits the content very much, and I do love it. But a few changes? I'm just talking out loud here. Yay!

Sunday. September 6th, 2009.

It took some time, but the Ninjabi Store is FINALLY done! Check it out and buy things! It's only set up with paypal as a payment option currently, but I'm working on that.

The Ninjabi site got moved to a new server, so there's going to be issues with everything running correctly, so if you have trouble viewing the comics, thats why. I haven't been able to figure out how to fix it yet, since it was dynamic pages, and for some reason the code doesn't work like it used to. Big frowny face.

The forum is going to be changed back to phpbb3. vBulletin is nice and all, but..it was too much for this site I think. I preferred the smaller, less intimidating phpbb site I had up before. It'll take some time to figure it out. But it's not like anyone goes there much anyway...heh.

Comics? What do you mean, comics? Um..yeah...I started a new job and soon after my wrist developed this intense pain that I find myself suffering from all day. At night I put on a wrist brace now and that helps ease the pain. Since I've negleted the code aspect of the site, I've been dealing more with that, and there are changes being made, but most people won't notice them at all because it's all behind the scenes. I'm even thinking of revamping the store, but not too much because I enjoy the simplicity of it, and that was the whole point. I wanted it to remind people, even in a subconscious way perhaps, about the pixel and how even the tiniest one can make something beautiful. And also have an elaborate/arabesque/familiar/cultural feel to it. Who am I kidding, I think its kinda perfect. Maybe in the future I'll change the design of it.

Alright that's all I think, I should stop rambling. Don't forget to check out the Ninjabi Store and get something for Eid!

Sunday. July 26th, 2009.

Alright. The store is almost up. I really stressed over this, and it was in NO WAY any sort of fun. So, now that the store is near completion, I thought I'd ask about what kinda prices everyone was thinking were reasonable. I have :

• oversize postcards--1 design so far
• vinyl stickers--1 sticker page comes with 6 different design
• pin buttons--2 designs
• long sleeve shirts--5 current designs, with more on the way
• Noor plushie--1 design, more to come based on how she does

So let me know, by commenting the blog!