Adobe abomination...

So while it's waking up, my computer throws up a dialog box indicating that Adobe Flash Player needs updating. So I'm like, "Okay, whatever...," and I end up agreeing to download and run an executable file that updates Flash Player.

And I don't know whether this is some kind of comment about the quality of Flash Player, but the installation file also installs some security software from McAfee, without asking whether I want it (I don't), without determining whether I already have some other security software installed (I do), and with no opportunity to opt out of the process.

I would have given the exact name of the McAfee software, but my next step after clicking on the installation's "Finish" button was to call up my control panel and uninstall the McAffee program, so it's gone, leaving behind, in the bottom pane of the Control Panel, only the information that the product version was 3.0.285.6, and the file was 10.2 MB in size.

Fortunately for my blood pressure, the uninstall proceeded with no additional prompts or attempts to convince me to keep the application installed.

But it's still annoying.

Persnickety codswallop...

Don't ask me where the subject came from. I found myself sort of stuck for something that didn't reek of "Just another day in front of my computer," and "Persnickety codswallop" just sort of popped out.

I recall, back maybe a decade ago (maybe more), someone came up with a meme that consisted of typing two obscure words into Google's search engine in an attempt to find zero pages containing said two words. As the Web expanded, the task became more difficult.

Just now, on a whim, I Googled the subject and came up with not one, but two hits on Google (albeit both for the same domain).

Why "persnickety"?

Attention to detail. It seems to be the coin of the realm these days, especially when so many people out there are bankrupt in this department.

"Codswallop"?

Between us, I think it's a hoot of a word. The fact it means "nonsense" is icing on the cake.

Why the two together? Beat me eight ways from Omaha.

Lots of work. Mostly outgoing and being done, today.

I expect more of the same tomorrow.

Cheers...