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“Possessed” sketch

Published on April 28, 2009 in art, programming and websites. 4 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , .

Summer time is up, most of my classmates are relaxing and having fun now, but for me it means work and now it’s full time. I still feel that I haven’t graduated yet, and would still go back to school if given the opportunity. But now, I need to earn money to buy the things I want, and hopefully become stable in life. Then, I can continue to my studies in a few years and maybe take up a masters degree. But instead of talking of my “future-future” plans, let take a peek of what I’ve been up to lately…

scan0001I drew a rough sketch of a woman which is supposed to be “possessed”. If I don’t feel lazy this sketch maybe cleaned and colored in using my favorite designing software, Photoshop. I entitled this sketch as “Possessed”, since my brother said that the character looks “sinasaniban (Tagalog word for possessed)” when I showed him the drawing. I’m actually happy about his comment about the drawing, since I was aiming for that emotion/image from the very beginning. Though this character has no clothes, this is not Hentai or porn. I haven’t placed any details yet since its a rough sketch, but it may belong to the “artistic nude” genre/category. The artwork style doesn’t look like anime/manga, it looks rather western and semi-real, but I like it more that way, since it adds up more to the “possessed” look. I don’t think it would look nice having a cute faced anime girl doing that pose instead.

I’m posting this sketch so as you readers may comment if this looks awkward or if there is something wrong with the anatomy of the body that I can’t tell. I did base some parts of the pose at Posemaniacs then improvised to have the certain look and feel that I want. So please do feel free to comment or suggest anything to make this sketch better.

Also, besides drawing I have been thinking of redesigning ChanLu, though I assigned the task of creating the logo to Rogelio. With the redesign I’m also planning to recode ChanLu from scratch at the same time.

I will be using the Ruby programming language (thank goodness the Dreamhost supports it) using Sinatra web framework this time, with an additional ruby gem called Haml, it would help me speed up on developing ChanLu and the template codes would look so pretty and makes it more fun to code! Wayne helped me on installing the ruby gems on Dreamhost. But I’m gonna install Datamapper myself, but I’ll ask for his help again if I encounter any problems.

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WordPress 2.7 Coltrane

Published on December 11, 2008 in websites. 18 Comments Tags: , .

wordpress-logoToday, WordPress had their official release on 2.7 “Coltrane”. I was so excited at installing the new version, since Coltrane has a lot of changes regarding the User Interface and the whole “look and feel “of the admin panel.

After downloading the Zip file, I started out looking at some files, and replaced my config file with the new one, since there were some differences which I thought would be needed by the new version. After uploading the files, I immediately pointed my browser to /wp-admin/upgrade.php.

I was told that my database was old and needs to be upgraded, so I pressed the continue button. Then I was forwarded to install.php. I was shocked but I though that it was just reconfirming values about me and my site.

Then I was redirected to a page giving me the new password. Then when I logged in, my posts, pages, links, everything was gone. The problem was caused by me though, so I needed to find a way to retrieve my data back.

Dreamhost LogoThen I started losing hope of ever getting my data back, losing interest in my blog site due to the incident, but I didn’t give up yet, I tried looking for backups. In my Dreamhost account, there is a backups user but unfortunately, the data backed-up only stays for about five days and all was gone. I was about to post something really really bad on my blog due to my data loss, though I remembered that in DreamHost, there is a “restore database” option. That was my last resort, when I accessed the DH mysql admin panel, I tried on the “restore database” option. At my luck that I was able to restore my database to the state it had 13 hours ago. I was able to restore my data. Thank goodness, then I uploaded the old version of the config file, and Tada! My blog is back!

I was so happy that Dreamhost has a Restore Database feature. If  it wasn’t for that, I would have deleted my blog and would wait for decades later, or maybe just months later to open a blog again.

The new WordPress Admin looks awesome that the last version. I can access all the pages in one click, unlike the past version that they were sub navigations under a tab. The Dashboard is now dashing! I love the part where I can organize the positioning of the the elements to what I feel is much more important to me. This version is definitely better and easier to use than WordPress 2.6 below.

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Gmail Themes

Published on November 22, 2008 in design, web design and websites. 1 Comment Tags: .
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I was surprised when I logged into my email today, since I usually check using IMAP. The site colors suddenly changed to light blue, with a notification message stating that new themes are now available on Gmail. I really didn’t like the default set of theme on my mail, so I dropped by the themes section to change.

I was shocked to see that Gmail Themes doesn’t only feature themes with different shades of colors, but themes that look fun and modern like the Ninja theme (that’s what I’m using now). Their themes also have some cool tricks, like changing the way they look based on the time, so they ask for the user’s Location to synchronize the time. Now, I’m excited to see how my theme would look later.

Themes are not available with Google Apps, though I’m hoping that  Google will include themes to the Google Apps, for my ChanLu and PixelMai mail to look more fun.