> In that time, I've managed to garner enough XP to pass by my betters ...
> If that's not a lesson in the futility of XPWing, I don't know what is.

The actual problem is that XP is probably futile, but PerlMonks levels, attributed by the same futile XP points, are much more appealing! :-)

BTW, the road to my 1000th post is incredibly long...