Note that you'll need to be running on WordPress trunk to get the Gears support. You can find the Subversion repository here:

http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/trunk/

And the Trac ticket for adding Gears support to WordPress here:

http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6965

The subject was also discussed on the wp-hackers mailing list in March:

http://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/wp-hackers/2008-March/t...

I'm over WordPress.

Drupal is my new love... however, they significantly need to improve their website to better service the growing community and module contributions.

I think drupal is awesome as well ... although its not a perfect fit for everything... it can be customized almost for all things!

Speed Up! by making fewer ridiculous database queries with ridiculous clauses like "select ... where 0=1".