Today my colleague told me about a fellow blogger who bombarded her in his (the blogger) blog. I know this guy, as in the guy in the blogosphere, not the real person. And I was surprised that he actually directed all the attacks at my friend. The remarks are pretty rude and my friend was not very happy. I’ve tasted something like this before and I know the feeling.

It’s funny how some people are so “open” when it comes to attacking people verbally, but not so “open” when it comes to revealing their identity. This guy uses a nickname. Well, I do respect people if they choose to remain anonymous but finger pointing at another fellow blogger is not that good especially if that blogger is using a real name. After all, everyone has the rights to voice their opinions. It’s good to discuss and argue, but to do something that rude is totally a different story. After all, my friend’s points are pretty valid.

I will not disclose my friend’s name and blog, and neither will I disclose the attacker’s identity in the blogosphere. I just hope that fellow bloggers will learn to respect each other and not directing attacks to one another like this. True, you have the freedom to talk whatever you want, no doubt about that but please do it in a more pleasant way. If you don’t, it will just show how immature you are. Well, at least, your immaturity does give us a good laugh.

Oh, and for that guy, it’s better to find your facts before accusing or attacking people. The remarks you made in your blog are not valid at all. There are a lot of female leaders out there who can handle stress better than male leaders, and there are a lot of female IT experts out there too.

Remember, at the end of the day, RESPECT is the keyword. Let us respect other fellow bloggers and together build a helpful and friendly blogosphere.

Cheers!

On another note, a fellow blogger named Pelf contacted me (and other bloggers) for help. Here’s the email content.

I am sure we all know who Yvonne Foong is. She was diagnosed with NF2, an incurable genetic disease in which tumors grow in the brain and spine — 6 years ago when she was 16. Since then, she has undergone 5 major surgeries since 2002, the last being an Optic Nerve Decompression surgery on Nov 19th, 2008. And now that you are busy preparing for Christmas and New Year, shopping and wrapping gifts for your family and friends, planning the end-of-year parties and what-have-yous, Yvonne is raising funds to save her eyesight.

If we could all take 5 minutes to send Yvonne a little donation, that would definitely cheer a girl with an incurable disease up. But of course, if you could afford more than “a little donation”, that would mean a lot to her. And I am sure your donation would be the best form of Christmas present for her

Yvonne’s Maybank account number is 5142 3580 5099 (Yvonne Foong Ming Niang). Alternatively, if you’d prefer to donate via PayPal, her PayPal account is yvonnefmn@gmail.com.

I’ve donated a little money from my PayPal. It’s not much but I do hope it can help. I know we’re having recession and it’s a bit difficult to ask people to donate. But well, just try to help as much as you can either by donating or by spreading the message.

Thanks!

The current theme is cool and nice, but a bit slow especially for those with slow internet connection. The words are also too close together……and the gap on the sidebar is quite large. I browsed through my existing themes but i couldn’t find any good one.

I’ll stick to this theme for a week maybe before i go and search for better themes. Sorry for any inconveniences caused (see? Alvin so polite already)

PHEWWW it’s finally done. I’ve been spending my Saturday and Sunday on WordPress upgrade. My previous blog was corrupted…..the plugins stopped to work….the stats gone…everything went haywired. Then I finally decided to upgrade to the latest 2.3.1 2.3.2 WordPress.

It’s not an easy feat. I should’ve done the proper blog renaming and migration beforehand but I didn’t. So now I have to restart my STATS from 0…….my Alexa from 0 (unavoidable even if I did move the blog address properly…but well, it’s the same domain, so not that bad)…..my comments in a total mess (thus you can see Cirnelle with the latest comment instead of Jamy)…..my previous postings are not associated with any categories.

It’s just too tedious due to the change in database structure. I exported the DB SQL script but the table structures have changed. I can no longer import straight in. I did a lot of manual modifications to the script in order to get my older posts back and also the comments (600 of them).

Been spending too much time on this so I finally gave up on the post-link-to-category kind of thing.

On a positive note, the new WordPress is very cool with a lot of cool plugins which were not available towards the end of last year. A lot of Web 2.0 and AJAX-enabled plugins. If you notice, there’s a page called Alvea Artwork where you can browse my sketches using Javascript-enabled popup.

Also, there’s the wonderful theme I am using here which allows you to change the backdrop (unless you disable cookie in your browser).

Feel free to play around the new blog. In the future, I think I can post my comic here….mmm…still thinking about it.

p/s…. if you found out any problems with this new blog. Please let me know via e-mail, or just drop a comment here. Thanks!