John Gruber at Daring Fireball:

I fully acknowledge that there is much to be gained by running your own copy of WordPress. But clearly there is a price: constant vigilance.

I like the little allusion to the famous quote from 19th century abolitionist, Wendell Phillips

"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty"

In this case liberty is running your own blog server.

Fortunately I'm in the same situation as Gruber, running a Movable Type system, so I've avoided the current unpleasantness that Andy Ihnatko is going through.

Andy doesn't have quite as grand a historical reference as Gruber, but he does clearly communicate the situation he's in.

*@&$, #%@&, &%%, Damn!