Yep, Ted is a bad writer with very few points to make, so he fills in the gaps with anger and poison. Some people can pull off the angry rant in a a worthwhile

Yep, Ted is a bad writer with very few points to make, so he fills in the gaps with anger and poison. Some people can pull off the angry rant in a a worthwhile way. He can't, and I generally despise his writing. As far as Ubuntu's update process, these updates were small point updates in the middle of the release cycle, which is why they were so disturbing; it seems that Debian's "constantly up-to-date" system works better for me, at least so far.