My free sketch by Samsudin Ismail is in progress.

It took him only 7 minutes to iron out this rough sketch. There is still some work to be done before the final caricature is ready. Can’t wait

Samsudin offers low-res sketches for free but if you are looking for something hi-res, it will run you USD 5. I find that to be a bargain.

How to get your caricature? Head on over to Free Sketch or drop Samsudin an email at samsudin.ismail@gmail.com. Remember to have your picture attached with the mail.

I decided to change my permalinks structure to no longer include %category% as part the url. I was thinking about long term maintenance and noticed a possible flaw in the current structure which is /category/post/. What happens if I decide to remove or rename a category? My url structure would change and break all incoming links. This is not a good experience for my readers.

I made the change transparent and this is how I did it.

Changed my permalinks structure through WP-Admin–>Options–>Permalinks to reflect the new structure shown below.

Old structure : /%category%/%postname%/

New structure : /posts/%postname%/

What happens to all the incoming links from other sites? Fixed that by using the permalink-redirect plug in by Scott Yang. See screenshot below.

The plug in was initially installed to help add a trailing slash “/” to all my posts url(s) and also redirect all www.thedaneshproject.com to thedaneshproject.com. This was to help improve the accuracy of traffic tracking through Google Analytics and Google Webmaster. Now it is playing a larger role by making my permalink changes transparent to all incoming links which may be pointing to my old structure. A sample of what it is doing,

“http://thedaneshproject.com/voip/major-skype-outage/” will now point to “http://thedaneshproject.com/posts/major-skype-outage/”

That’s it, now I’ll have to wait and if anything broke.

If you need any help applying the same changes to your WP blog please leave a comment or get in touch with me though the Contact Me form and I’ll be glad to help.

I received a mail from emoryu2 today. It was a thank you mail for posting his wallpaper here not too long ago. Anti Vista Wallpaper. I’m a not a windows person so naturally his wallpaper appealed to me the moment I saw it.

I know my blog does not contribute a significant amount of traffic his work but it’s nice to see individuals appreciating us now and then for sharing their work with the world.

I’m a strong believer in the open source concept and respecting intellectual properties of others. Credit should always be given to those who put their heart and soul into their work. In today’s world this is hard to practice as everyone is busy chasing success and money in the quickest way possible.

Thank you for posting my work. I’ve gotten a lot of attention on that
wallpaper. I’m sure you posting it had an impact on it. At this moment
I’ve had 757 views and 181 downloads. You’ve given me some exposure and
for that I thank you. Also thanks for giving me credit for it. As well
as a link to the page it can be downloaded from. It was very respectable
for you to do that. Very nice. Somethings that seem to be lacking these
days.

I found your post only because I did a web search using Yahoo. I wanted
to see how far my work had branched on the net. ^_^ Once again thank you.

My domain and hosting transfer from godaddy to shinjiru was successful.

I am currently moving my forum and gallery over ans should be done later today.

How’s the site speed now?

Hi all,

My site will be down for a few days. My domain is up for renewal and I am moving to a new hosting company closer to home.

I will keep you updated.

See you soon….