I’ve worked most of the issues out though, an my biggest problem is that some of the UI changes just didn’t really make the system more usable, but actually made it more difficult.

Anyway, I’m on 2.5.1 and looking forward to 2.5.2. I do love Wordpress though, so willing to live with the issues.

Are you planning to learn PHP now?

Another great post. Thanks for sharing!

I’m biding my time but pretty sure I actually have a legitimate excuse because $400/mo + a $7500 repair is way more than trading it in and making $300/mo car payments on a newer vehicle still under warranty.

The last point is “Don’t listen to your elders”, iow, don’t take my word for it, let your own values be your guide as to what’s right in this unfair world.

I can’t say that I agree that building wealth isn’t a zero sum game though. When one person accrues wealth, someone else necessarily loses a bit of theirs. This is the nature of a system where wealth is defined by access to limited resources, be it gold, or oil or time or what have you. Even if you build your wealth by inventing a new thing, you are likely taking something from the commons to do so; even if you are giving back in some other area, someone, somewhere is probably losing something. This isn’t necessarily always the case, but I think its true most of the time. It isn’t fair or unfair, its just the nature of Capitalism.

1. F*** poor people.
2. Getting rich is good for the environment.
3. We can never clean up politics. So why even try?
4. (see 1, above)
5. Are you poor? Well then God has forbidden your desire to better yourself. (also see 1, above)
6. I am an enormous, greedy douche.

I hope that this article was facetious, but I really can’t tell. The different points seem to contradict each other too. So even if it is a joke it doesn’t make any sense.

I keep reminding myself that I don’t have a car payment, so $410 worth of repairs is not that bad. Its only slightly more than the car payment I left behind almost a year ago.

This isn’t coming out of my emergency fund by the way. Its coming out of money I would have put into savings from what used to be my car payment. Because I didn’t inflate my lifestyle when that payment went away, I am able to handle it, whereas in the past I would be worried, and maybe even put the repairs off altogether. So I owe yet another thank You to the PF community.

Like Red, I’m also still on the 2.4 release. This wasn’t so much a deliberate move as it was sheer laziness on my part.

I guess sometimes procrastination pays off!

I’m still on the last 2.4 wordpress release, I’ll hold out for a while longer, hopefully these issues get shaken out.