Podcasts

I drive an hour to and from work everyday and to fill my time, I listen to a variety of podcasts. Instead of an iPod, I have a Creative Nomad Jukebox III. Its so old and big its often mistaken for a CD player. But that's alright because it was cheap, it has 40GB capacity and it sounds great. Its certainly not as stylish as an iPod, as you can see...



iTunes is the weapon of choice for most podcast listeners, but it only really makes sense to use if you have an iPod. Instead I use a program called Juice.



I subscribe to about 15 podcasts and they all come out on different days of the week. The top five are:

BBC Newspod - http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/rmhttp/downloadtrial/radionews/bbcradionewspod/rss.xml
A daily collection of news from across BBC news programs.

Military History Podcast - http://geo47.libsyn.com/rss
Produced by a teenage somewhere in the US, this podcast discusses battles, equipment and armies from ancient history to the present day.

PC Gamer Podcast - http://www.pcgamerpodcast.com/?feed=rss2&category_name=podcasts
PC Gamer Magazine (which I've never read) editors talk about pc game stuff. It's a good laugh.

Matt's Today In History - http://www.podshow.com/feeds/mattstodayinhistory.xml
Once or twice a week some guy called Matt (not me) discusses an important event in history that occurred on that date.

CBC's Quirks & Quarks Podcast - http://www.cbc.ca/podcasting/includes/quirks.xml
I've never heard anyone so excited about science. Covers a wide variety of science related subjects once a week. Usually interesting, but sometimes mind numbingly boring...

And just to finish, here is a picture of a truck I've seen a few times in the daily traffic jam going into Glasgow. I thought the big guy on the back was funny so I snapped it.