Some folks who know me might say I have somewhat of an “addictive personality”. Not that I’m the “life of the party” or any other similar-meaning cliche. I really do tend to have my little vices. For instance, drinking Coke (the legal kind) is a habit I have tried to break for years…to no avail. Once upon a time, I ate a Whopper from Burger King every day for almost a year during college. The next year, I ate a Chicken Sandwich from Arby’s so frequently they started calling me “Chicken Man” at the drive up window. Yes, you guessed it, I have “what the doctors might call, ‘a little bit of a weight problem.’” (Crazily, I was somewhat slender during the college years. I guess I played enough hacky-sack to offset. Actually, I made my first Website in college. WARNING: Lame Content!)

Lately, my greatest guilty pleasure is the podcast. Which, in layman’s terms, is simply a privately-produced audio-cast, usually in the form of an mp3 file for download. A simpler explanation might be: a radio show on the Internet that you can download. I can’t seem to get enough of them. I am constantly checking TWIT for a new `Security Now`, `This Week in Tech`, `Mac Break` (I don’t even own a Mac), or `KFI Tech Guy` (surprisingly, my 2nd favorite to `Security Now`.) Thanks to my Woot script, I snagged an ultra-cheap SanDisk mp3 player. Couple that with my Walmart FM-modulator/SD-or-USB-Drive mp3 player and I’m now listening to PHP Architect on the morning drive instead of NPR. Instead of surfing for tech news at work, I’m listening to it while I work. Before I say this makes me more productive, I might mention the occasional podcast-inspired surfing tangent (Now if I could only get better inspired to finish my website.)

If you are a techie-nerd who likes to stay abreast of the latest-and-greatest that the wide world of geekdom can offer, you better check out podcasts (chances are you already have.)