Monthly Archive for October, 2009

Pretty things from the past

My Grandma and our helper cleaned and arranged some boxes at our (so called) stock room, then they found something from way back on 2003. What they found was some of my unfinished manga, so unfinished that I’ve even forgotten that I created those. Now, I find the stories quite intriguing, and would like to recreate it again, and hopefully finish it this time. I’m planning to buy a Moleskine for it, just to separate from the Moleskine I have now which is intended for random doodles.

It has been a long while since I have been creating manga, and I would like to go back. Maybe the absence of that practice made me more unimaginative and unproductive lately.

I won a vector pack!

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I joined a contest a while ago held at Naldz Graphics. Together with Artbox7, they were giving away premium brushes, icons and vector packs. I joined with a little hope of actually winning, since there were a lot of participants and the winners were chosen randomly. I was shocked when I opened my email. I won! I must have a bit of luck in me sometimes. Also, I opened that certain email account just today, just in time to download the prize, since the link’s validity is limited to seven days only. Good thing I was still able to download the prize, or else it would have gone to waste.

Thanks Ronald Bien and Artbox7 for the giveaways!

Rack: OpenSSL Error

While programming for one of my projects using Sinatra, I encountered a problem when using Rack’s session.

LoadError: no such file to load — openssl

The error message states that they cannot find openssl, even though I currently have it installed on my machine. After reading advices from helpful forums, people who encountered the same problem stated that I need the library of OpenSSL. Here’s the code to install the OpenSSL library easily:

sudo apt-get install libopenssl-ruby1.9

I worked for me, and now I can continue working on my project.