In the paper today we had a full-page color ad from some bloke saying sorry to his wife, girlfriend or significant sheila (but almost certainly not his mother).
I have to confess that I missed the ad until tonight when I was reading at a more leisurely pace. The ad says:
Sorry Princess. I’m sorry for all [...]
Using Mofuse I was able to create a mobile version of this site. You can see a link in the banner or simply go to http://mgorey.mofuse.mobi for a look.
I checked it on my phone’s browser and it is easier to scan the articles and main content.
Mofuse fetches the content via an RSS feed, begging the [...]
IBM has released a report entitled “The End of Advertising as We Know It”. The report predicts a shift from mass media to interactive niche advertising targeted at specific groups.
Traditional advertising players risk major revenue declines as budgets shift rapidly to new, interactive formats, which are expected to grow at nearly five times that of [...]
I’m taking a look at Windows Live at the moment. It’s a suite of services including email, online gallery, blog, news and messenger.
It has a neat clean interface and the Windows Live Mail is a great improvement on Hotmail.
Google and Yahoo offer similar packages and I’m interested to see where it all leads. The three [...]
The popular Opera web browser is now available without advertising. Although unobtrusive, I never liked having the ads there and used Opera infrequently.
I’m now more inclined to use it on a regular basis. Like Firefox and Mozilla, it’s cross-platform and can be used in Linux or Windows.
Why did they remove the ads: “Opera’s growth, due [...]
If you’re an Alpine Shire resident you can now take advantage of my free hosting service at www.alpineshire.com.
There are some limitations, such as 1MB in size, and these are explained on the site. The URL should be quite attractive for local business and individuals, ie http://www.alpineshire.com/username.
There’s nothing in it for me except some advertising [...]
I see that Opera has released a new version of its web browser. I’ve never been tempted to try Opera, because there’s a fee to remove the advertising links, but I may have a look at this out of curiosity.
I stopped using Internet Explorer a long time ago. I didn’t like the constant popups and [...]
The population of Victoria is five million people, but I was the only one of them today on the summit of our second-highest peak, Mt Feathertop.
The mountain was awe inspiring, humbling, powerful and beautiful in a mesmerising package of contradictions.
Normally I have Friday spare to pursue private business, but I swapped it for today to [...]
I saw a disturbing report on SBS news last night about the Aral Sea disaster in Kazakhstan. The world’s fourth-largest inland sea has been decimated by commercial exploitation and mismanagement. Here are some of the facts:
Forty years ago the Aral Sea surface was 66,100 square kilometers with an average depth of 16.1 metres and a [...]
Well it’s almost sunk in that I’m a Dad again. The twins were dragged reluctantly into the world at 10.26am and 10.27am on Tuesday, December 16, 2003 almost two weeks before Juliet would have been full term in her labor.
The vital details:
James Peter, weight 6lb 12oz
Margaret Johanna, weight 6lb
Mum and babies are doing well. Hopefully [...]
I wrote this article in February 2002 in response to a campaign by Senator Julian McGauran and Tim Fischer to obtain a pardon for English officer “Breaker” Morant, who ordered the killing of prisoners in the Anglo/South African War.
I was annoyed that McGauran took up this issue without any community consultation. It was the only [...]
I'm a 41-year-old father of four working as a newspaper editor at Mount Gambier in South Australia.
