Remember the great 1951 (or was it 1953? I was about -20 at the time) Warner Bros cartoon "Duck Amok", where Daffy Duck is taunted by the artist until he goes crazy and tears down the entire background?

That's what I was like yesterday. Except instead of Chuck Jones taunting me, it was Adobe.

I don't do a lot of PDF viewing, but every time I do I seem to get annoyed in some new way by Adobe's Acrobat viewer. The other day it prompted me (for the bajillionth time) to download two new updates. Caving, I let it do its thing. When it finally finished the first of the two updates, it prompted me to reboot, but I told it I'd reboot later.

Well, yesterday I rebooted. Now, if the Acrobat update program was written by pretty much any other software developer on the planet, that would have been enough. But guess what the first dialog to present itself to me after logging in was?

It was Adobe's update program, telling me that it couldn't apply the latest update until I'd rebooted.

It hadn't done a thing! Immediately after rebooting, it was prompting me to reboot!!!

Well, I went Daffy-Duck-Crazy. I jumped over to "Add or Remove Programs" and uninstalled anything with the word "Adobe" in the title. Then I opened up "C:\Program Files" and deleted the "Adobe" folder. Then I opened up Regedit and systematically deleted every registry key with "Adobe" in it.

I feel better for it.

So now I've downloaded Foxit PDF Reader, which everyone swears by, and I'm a better person because of it. Thanks, Foxit! And thanks to Adobe for showing me the light.