Just like the kids do it

[listersgirl]

Ages ago (like, last year), I decided to join the 21st century, so I poked and questioned and finally figured out this whole "downloading" thing that people keep talking about. And through the magic of torrents, I found the missing episode of Kitchen Confidential, the one with Michael Vartan that never aired. Except when I tried to play it, I only got sound and swirly things. No chefs. Sad!

All that keeping up with the times nearly killed me. I had failed, so I gave up. But then a random comment last week led me to realize that I could probably make things better. Woo! So I searched around and found that I needed a codec, and then found the codec that I needed, downloaded that, and la la la, picture!

And then I had to remind myself how to use uTorrent so that I could download Torchwood. Which took all night. But now I have tv on my computer. It's a little exciting.

Comments

[eanja]

That's one of the best things about finally having DSL (even if it is the slow kind), that I can download things instead of begging people to do it for me. I've been using shareaza for torrents, but mostly just because it was recommended to me - I don't actually have much to compare it to.

And hey- Torchwood! I just spent a whole day downloading the latest of that, and watched at 4 am last night after I got my work done. What do you think of it?

[listersgirl]

I haven't watched it yet, but I'm excited.