For all of you who read my blog for the good stuff, I apologize that there hasn't been much of that lately. In the mean time, here's some boring stuff.

Vista has proved to be a much more likable OS than I originally evaluated. Once UAC is turned off, it runs without the annoying pop-ups, and contrary to the Mac ad, the important pop-ups still come up. That being said there are still some things I've had to do to get the thing running correctly. One of them is getting Flash to work.

Because I was upgrading, I already had Flash 9 installed. In IE7, however, none of the flash stuff was playing. The weirdest thing was that everything worked fine in Firefox. Long story short, the way to fix this is to go to Adobe's website and download a Windows uninstaller for Flash (http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html#uninstaller). Once you run the uninstaller, go back to the Flash website and run the Flash install again. Voila! Problem solved.

Sorry this is minutia and probably doesn't seem very blog worthy, but I spent a good amount of time researching this problem and I felt it was worth while to share.