yes, i know i'm late to the party

this is why i'm a shitty nerd.
i've just started fucking around with windows 7, which i really like. then again, i liked vista, so there's that. the way win 7 is set up though, points you towards using the 64 bit version of internet explorer. they do include the 32 bit version as well, but it's less prominent.
and of course: problems arise.

adobe makes flash, and distributes the flash player. i.e. does not come with this pre-installed. there is no 64 bit version of the flash player. to get that to install, you need to be running the 32 bit verison of i.e.
$5 to the first person who comes up with a concise explanation of that issue i can pass along to the people at the office wondering why they have to deal with 2 different i.e. shortcuts on their desktops. bear in mind that the people i work with do not understand the difference between outlook, internet explorer, and windows.

also, adobe? your fucking help file should not have this in it:
"I can't get Adobe Flash Player to work on Windows 7.

TRY THIS FIRST

This problem is related to the browser you are using. Try using another browser, such as Firefox from Mozilla."

you are snakes and liars. if steve jobs wasn't a bigger douchebag, i would hope he is correct and html5 renders flash obsolete.

hillbilly trainwreck continues.

the westboro baptist church announced that they're going to protest at constance mcmillen's graduation. yes, this is the same girl who wanted to take her girlfriend to prom and the whole damn school lost their fucking minds.
constance? you need to get your ass out of mississippi. much respect for telling a bunch of rednecks to go fuck themselves very publicly, but there's no reason to keep living with all that.

also, best paragraph of the morning goes to driftglass:
"Because for most of my adult life, there has been no one on the Right or in the Center who was willing to drag these scum out into the light just keep kicking them over and over and over again until they stopped behaving like the spoiled, whiny imbeciles...or crawled back into their double-wides and left us civilized people the Hell alone."

edit / update:
looks like the hosting company of the beast destroyed our virtual smtp server some time within the last couple days. for an unspecified amount of time, our corporate website has been trying, unsuccessfully, to send out little things like account registration emails, password requests, and check statements. so, you know, nothing major.
keeping with their policy of assuming that i break things like this for fun, they immediately asked me what i did to disrupt the normal flow of operations. my response, as always, was "not a goddamned thing you mouth breathers, get your windows engineer on the line NOW."
in defense of my surly attitude, this is two (2) weeks in a row where they have ruined our website with their patches, and been unable to figure out why. today i spent a half hour arguing with an engineer that the mail we send out does NOT all go to the same address. hell, it doesn't even all come FROM the same address, why the fuck would a handful of different features all send TO the same email inbox?
for this kind of service, we pay mid four figures a month for hosting.