I still don't understand why slashdot's CSS designer, having apparently never heard of the <blockquote> tag, turned <i> tags into block level elements that aren't even italicized. TFA is a good example of why not to do that (see "store", "could", "same")

Getting really good with Drupal = 1-2 months
Building a single site from scratch with the same scope of functionality = 4-5 months

All of my design/development applications run (well) on XP. Once Adobe starts releasing software that doesn't run on XP, and need some magical properties only found in Vista, and I actually need to upgrade to those new versions (because I'm getting files that I can't open), then I suppose then I'll have to "upgrade". But I don't see that happening for at least another 3-4 years. And who knows, maybe at that point it'll be to Ubuntu.