I’ve been forced to interrupt my holiday regaling to write a quick note about [podcasts] to vent my pent up anger, because it’s hard to affect physical damage on digital objects. Especially online ones!

Right when pod casts first appeared (?) I hated them – mostly because I’m an iPod hating type and secondly because everyone was going on about them and I really fucking hate things that are popular (Harry Potter, Big Brother etc etc).

Anyways…a year or so on I found an [application] which handled podcasts quite nicely and I found a pod cast that I actually gave a shit about. Enter [Lug Radio], a bunch of dudes talking about Linux but mostly ripping the piss out of each other – it’s laugh out loud funny and it makes peeps stare at me when I’m crying hysterically with laughter at my desk.

So I’d found one and though – hey there must be more shit I want to listen to. Then I discovered the BBC’s [Digital Planet] podcast – it’s not as well engineered as the Lug Radio one, it has at least one retard on it per edition(?) and no one is ripping the piss out of anyone but it was ok.

Now I’ve got the podcast bug right, so I visit a website to check up a [story] I’d commented on to see if anyone had anything intelligent to say about it. Which they didn’t. But then I saw the [podcast] which I promptly listened to.

My god it’s awful – not only are the first 2 minutes some shitty music, but the first guy’s voice is infeasibly dull and he doesn’t seem to know what he wants to say. None of this however prepares you for the second dudes voice. Fuck knows where he’s from his voice is boring and weird and his best tip to find out stuff about Gnome is to go to Gnome.org. Seriously buddy google can totally already tell me that without the bizarrely accented boring voice, I’m not even going to make it a link that’s how bloody obvious it is.

Needless so say I deleted all traces of it. So beware your ears when listening to a podcast – perhaps get a cat or dog to do it for you and judge the quality on their reaction…