Michael Gorey

I would never rely on an automated online translation service to communicate with someone who speaks a foreign language. I might use it for a short sentence, or with apologies in advance, but never in a formal sense.
The Israeli journalists who questioned the Dutch Foreign Minister using a web translator must be extremely embarrassed.
The Israeli [...]

I use Gmail for most of my personal email. In the past week I’ve been getting a lot of error messages, basically whenever I send something to a Bigpond address.
At first I thought I might have had the wrong address for a particular person. I updated my contact book and tried again. In the last [...]

Yahoo! Mail is nearing its 10th anniversary and to celebrate the company has announced it will offer unlimited storage with its webmail accounts.
This is significant news and puts Yahoo in elite company with some smaller providers.
I have felt for a while the big names would move in this direction and I’m guessing it won’t take [...]

Jubii is offering an innovative 10GB free webmail service “for a limited time only”. It’s still under development but the ultimate goal is to integrate email, chat, Voice over IP, uploading and sharing of files.
The interface is a little unorthodox but I think this service is one to watch.
I found it slow to load, which [...]

Some people seem to think that newspapers delight in publishing bad news. As an editor I admit that bad news, tragedy and conflict often help to sell papers. That says something about human beings, I think, rather than newspapers.
From a personal perspective I prefer to focus on the positive but unless you're colorblind or wearing [...]

A recent development in the constantly changing world of the internet has been the proliferation of data storage services. Placing documents, pictures, music or videos online used to involve a convoluted process of file transfer using specialised software and it required the user to have their own domain.
That led to the creation of social networking [...]

There has been a lot of discussion in Australia about plans to introduce a citizenship test for immigrants. This PDF document is a beauty. I found it at FWDitOn.com, a web site for people to submit funny emails.
I love the question: Which Australian Prime Minister held the world record for drinking a yardie full of [...]

I discovered an intriguing new technology gadget tonight thanks to the Google ads on my own site. It’s called GoPC and it’s a virtual operating system that provides a free service for accessing programs and data storage online.
It uses Suse Linux and provides a limited number of programs with the free service. These include Firefox, [...]

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 [...]

I was just writing an email to a former colleague when it occurred to me that I should post some of it here as well …
Kalgoorlie has some iconic attractions including brothels and two-up. Tomorrow’s front page features a dispute between a brothel madam and the local council over car parking!
Last week we had a [...]