The Podcast Virgin

I have a confession to make. I repel technology. Never ask me to have a look at your computer or tune your telly. It will always end up far worse than before. When I bought a new laptop I got it to blue screen within 3 hours, when I bought my boyfriend a mp3 player for Christmas I picked the one specimen that had a built-in bug, even when I change batteries in a remote control it deletes all settings, and never-ever could I connect to the internet on a mobile phone. Guess I have it after my mother who is close to tears when someone sends her a text message, or when the internet support people asks her to restart the modem (for the 6th time in two weeks), and she has it after her mother who´s sole technological career was when she 1986 killed our VCR by forcing in a tape without pressing "ON" first.
I´m owning up to this because of the phenomenon of podcasts. Podcasts have been on everybody´s lips for quite some time now, but because I never had a very good relationship with my iPod I´ve never bothered exploring it further than sometimes overhearing others raving about this program and the other. But today I took pitty on my poor and very expensive music device and downloaded iTunes on to the main computer of the house. As I wright this it is still updating and synchronising announcing and searching und so weiter, not sure for what anymore though.
I was always annoyed with iTunes because it locks the music and you can´t use the iPod as an external device copying it to other computers. And since I used to travel alot I met alot of iTune-less new computers in which I wanted to plug and play allsorts. But no, always getting the cold shoulder.
But after much hair-pulling I got on to my very knowledgeable friend Rich, who quickly got me to download Sharepod. And behold! I could then copy all the music I had on the iPod, and now have it safely tucked away in the computer´s music files (probably not legal at all, or? Its still for personal use with albums that I mostly have bought. Do everyone actually read the fine print for this kind of stuff?). I´m sure iTunes has evolved alot since I got the iPod about 2 years ago, and maybe now there are ways and means to fix these things without having to download other programmes, but regardless of means of conduct, I can now happily click OK for every odd question the programme asks me, and laugh confidently when it turns out that the command in fact recycled whole folders into virtual nothingness. I am now, so to speak, insured against my technological illiteracy.
So I then went to check out the whole podcast scene. If my legs take me out to the car in a few weeks, the plan is that I´m going to Denmark for a while, lazying about in our little brown house with brown furniture, brown water and brown neighbours by the beach on Langeland, and then I might need something new to listen to.
So I managed to sign up for a bunch of promising programmes, and it seemed easy enough. But no, that didn´t necessarily mean that they appeared on the iPod of course. So what do I do? I click and click and click. And now I haven´t a clue whats actually on there, but it´ll have to do, I need a cup of tea.