BurntPhotons

I should probably be in bed sleeping because I've got a cold. It started hitting me a day or two ago and is in full on cold mode today/tonight, but before I go to bed I wanted to update some stuff.

It appears Microsoft is already sending me back my Xbox 360. I checked the status Sunday on my repair and saw the status included a UPS tracking number. I would have appreciated an email about the change, but oh well.

Saturday I freaked out a bit when I checked the status and saw that my account no longer showed any machine in for repair at all. I was imaging the headaches I was going to have to go through but hoped I had just caught them during an update cycle which appears to be what happened.

The Xbox really could have helped me out today. I would have loved to veg out and play a little with the way I feel. Tired, runny nose, sneezing, and tired.

Instead I have been catching up on a whole bunch of This Week in Tech podcasts and videos as I veg out today. Actually I have to mention the strange trip to using my RSS feed reader as my podcast downloader.

About a week ago, I started using Feeddemon as my podcast downloader. It has a program called Feed Station which downloads attachments in RSS newsfeeds.

A year or two ago when I started listening to podcasts I was using the Ipodder Lemon later known as Juice Receiver. After a few months, I found that every now and then Juice would just start downloading tons of old podcasts. It was often a headache, but after trying several pod catching programs it was the only program that seemed to do a good job overall.

A few months ago I started using the Democracy Player, which is now known as Miro, to download my video podcasts and kept Juice for just the audio podcasts. This created a convenient way to separate audio and video podcasts since I interact with the two differently.

Weeks before this I had started using FeedDemon to download a new video podcast called Mahalo Daily with Veronica Belmont because Miro wouldn't recognize the feed while FeedDemon would. I have to give props to the FeedDemon author Nick Bradbury for creating such a solid program which he has been updating a lot recently.

Anyway to make a long story shorter, after a few hiccups with FeedDemon everything seems to be running smoothly and I've dropped my memory usage a bit with FeedDemon only taking about 35 megs of memory. The only thing I miss is using Miro's interface which exposed me to new video podcasts, but then again I waist enough time watching and listening to the stuff I'm already downloading.