Day Three Hundred and Twenty-Five - Pod Person

Ricky Gervais has been making the rounds on all of the late night chat shows this week - promoting what looks to be a rather resoundingly horrible film [I don't get it - how such funny people can choose such decidedly unfunny projects - the money must be great.]. On Conan and Jimmy Kimmel he mentioned his podcast, which is available for free on the iTunes. Well, you know me - I'm always hip to the new technology, so I decided to check it out. I downloaded a podcast. Yes, it's my first one. And yes, shut up. Until very recently I didn't know what a podcast was - if indeed it was anything. Much like how I thought having a blog made you special [it doesn't] - I thought podcasts were extra special and that you would need something special to play them on and to download them. I am so dumb. Me and John McCain are *right there* on this whole internet thing.

Anyway, as it happens I did have to download iTunes, which broke my unofficial not having Mac/Apple things for no specific reason. This was all pretty painless and even my dear fussy Vista didn't kick up too much of a fuss [rage! rage against the machine! you...machine!]. Searching proved a bit more difficult, but I think that was because of my own blindness...after I brief detour to the UK iTunes [which apparently is not the same thing - I mean, iTunes is not just one universal thing] I found the podcast and downloaded it and listened to it. That's some funny stuff right there and I do highly recommend it. My next step will be putting podcasts on to one of my MP3 players. I'm really moving on up.