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[expletive phrase deleted], Adobe!

So I've got Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Standard on my work PC, but Adobe Acrobat Reader, the free software for viewing PDFs has some neat printing features as of its own ver. 8. That is installed; when I installed it, Adobe also snuck in Adobe Album Starter Edition, an image management application that "competes" with Google's Picasa, ACDSee, iPhoto and the like.

Though it pissed me off that they're bundling it, giving it a priority click-through install, and more or less forcing it on users, I figured to give it a try. I didn't like it, so I uninstalled it.

This morning Adobe Acrobat Reader told me that it needed to update itself. After failing to find a part for itself three times, and having to click through "re-open" as many times, it finally found its parts and started to install. It started by trying to re-install Adobe Albums.
~~ :-|

I canceled that, which took a few dialogs of telling it, "YES, REALLY. I DON'T WANT THAT," and let it proceed to the Reader upgrade. It loaded and started to install that part as well, then says, "Oh, hey. You've got a superior functioning application installed, so we'll abort." All of that hassle, for nothing - for something it should have detected prior to proposing an update install.

GRRRARRR!

hey...

What Would Jesus Blog?: If The Pixies Ruled The World: I think I posted this before, but my current listening habits are demanding that I mention it (again). If you like Prince or The Pixies, check out Matthew's Celebrity Covers of The Pixies version of "Hey" as covered by Prince.

And check out this list of covers on Wikipedia as well. (Mostly a directive to myself, actually.)