Addicted...

I have a new thing. For podcasts! It started yesterday. I decided to try out some podcasts because most of my favorite ex-TechTV stars (I discovered) had their own shows on podcasts and videocasts. Leo Laporte still hosts and guests in a few shows at G4TechTV but most of the other guys decided to stay in San Francisco after G4 moved all TechTV operations to its base in Los Angeles. See, G4 bought TechTV. I happen to think that they were better off when they were still just TechTV.

Anyway, I subscribed to This Week in Tech first. I liked the little-less-than-an-hour shows so much that I looked for a Patrick Norton podcast. I found one in DL.TV, Patrick's new baby. I even signed up for the fan map thingie. Then after browsing around TWiT.tv and DL.tv a bit more, I found out they also have videocasts. Apt timing, don't you think? They launched the video capable 5th-generation iPods during the 3rd quarter of 2005. According to rumors, Apple will launch "the" real video iPod sometime in the next few months as well.

Why am I blogging about this? I think I'm hooked to podcasts. And ... Uhm... Well, I'm getting frustrated with my phone (Moto E398). It takes 45 minutes to an hour to transfer 2 podcasts. It takes that long. And two podcasts aren't really that long, really. Plus when I have new ones, I have to erase the old ones. I have to do that everytime I have new stuff in. I was just thinking (wishful thinking!) that if I had an iPod that wouldn't be a prob. Transfers would be fast, capacity would be more than enough. I could even use the thing to store other files in transit, say files i dowload from an internet cafe or important documents i need to get to another PC. And with these new ones, I could play even video podcasts!

Oh, well. ..::: sigh :::.. My wishful thinking is just in time for my upcoming birthday. LOL :-]