The WordPress Tavern reports that KevinJohn Gallagher was receiving death threats for stating his mind about WordPress.

Ridiculously absurd, there are people in the world that feels passionately towards softwares, up to a point that they are willing to take a life over it. I believe, those with such pump up emotions, if they put all their energy into WordPress instead of DDos attacks and death threats, WordPress may be a much better platform.

In my recent business trip to Manila, I have observed a thriving work commute cycling community. Most of the cyclist wears shorts and carries a bag which I suspect a change of clothes when they reaches work. Most of the bikes were Mountain bikes, then Road bikes and I did not see a Single multi color Fixie. There was one guy cycling Strida, he was all suit up for work. Strida has Belt drive, so he needn’t worry about his pants getting greased.  I got to get a belt drive for my Fixie. In Penang, most of the cyclist who commute to work are foreign workers. There are only a handful of peddlers that cycle to work in FIZ. My hope for 2012 is to have more commuters cycle to work in FIZ, lessen the traffic and CO. 

The above collage house two Starbucks 2012 planners, one from Malaysia and the other from Philippines. The Malaysian planner comes in a black box and has cream leather feel cover. The Philippines on the other hand, came in a cloth bag and has a wood cover. Being a notebook addict, I could not resist myself not getting these planners. Though I don’t like the planner type pages, I love the cover, especially the Philippines wooden cover. Maybe this will nudge me to using it in 2012. Well, if I don’t use it, I can always hack it with blank pages or ruled pages. By the way, I have down loads of coffee for these planners, just part of the monthly coffee ration. 

WordPress 3.3 was recently released with major make over. The thing that impresses me the most is the upgrade speed and ease. I was surprise to click the upgrade button and to be greeted with upgrade complete immediately. Nice!

Sept 11, 2011, I did not make it to round island. After months of training, on this faithful even, I was down with fever. I later found out I had dengue. It must have been one of my training trip where I got the mosquito bite. I did attend the event, only after the rain, which is about 10am. I cycled from Gurney to the finishing line. Went to get my medal, waited till the Lucky Draw and went home empty handed.