Dreamweaver was developed by the devil

So I'm going through this thing. I want to be a web developer. Maybe it will pass, maybe not, who knows. But right now, that's what I want to do. Well, what do you do when you decide you would like to do anything involving graphic design of some sort? Usually, you look up Adobe.

So I downloaded the trial version of Dreamweaver CS3.

At first I had trouble downloading it. But then I downloaded it into a folder other than the program files folder. You know, where program files normally go. But whatever. It downloaded. Then I tried extracting the files- the first time I got the by now infamous error code 2739. I deleted the files, downloaded again- two more times before I came across the Adobe solution, which is to install java using the command prompt. That doesn't work, because the command is telling me that it does not recognize the internal or external code or whatever.

Well, fuck.

So I googled the frikkin code and found a blog (not sponsored by Adobe- shows how much they know) with that code and an alternate code if the first one doesn't work.

BINGO!!

I'm in, the download was going great, it appeared to install just fine but when I launched it- there's that God forsaken error code. I hit the net again, and found that aside from what I've already done, no one seems to have an answer. Not for Vista, anyways. One person did suggest downloading and installing java from its website. So I do that, I verify, try it again…. No love.

I have been at this all day! Grrrr.

Searching the web it seems that this was/is a common problem not just with Dreamweaver, but many programs a part of the Creative Suite 3 software line. That doesn't make me feel any better though. What does is that I didn't pay $500 for this shit software to not install!

And while I'm at it- MS Word 2007. Could you just keep the fucking style I try to set as default every frikking time I create an entry? Is that too much to ask? And why are we suddenly single spacing EVERYTHING by default? Who does that?

By the devil, I'm telling you.

Also, if you have kids that might enjoy Hello Kitty- girls in particular but I guess some boys like her, too- STAY AWAY FROM HELLO KITTY STUMP VILLAGE! It's a stop-motion type dvd for the kiddos and it will make you CRAZY in a way that not even Barney can, I promise.

First, the menu starts at episode 6. Where's 1-5? I don't know. Maybe they ran off in sheer terror at the annoyingness of it all.

And goes to 10.

And the episodes are about 15 minutes long- or at least they feel that way.

But the worst part is that the opening song for the show is about 2 minutes long. And that is the crazy making part. 2 minute song, 15 minute show, 2 minute song, 15 minute show… and then finally 2 minute song over and over again until I get up and turn the damn thing off.

We rented it from the library, so destroying it is out of the question. However, I really feel like the world would benefit from me tossing it under the back wheel of my Mercury Mountaineer and driving over it again, and again, and again…

If I could just pull one parent from the brink of madness, it would have been a worthy pursuit. But really, I would hate to have to pay for this God awful video. So you'll just have to take my word for it.

If your kid ever approaches you with a Hello Kitty video, monkey slap it out of their hand and distract, distract, distract until you can safely get away. Seriously, it's that bad.