Michael Gorey

There aren’t many novels about newspapers. Stories involving print journalists are far fewer than those about lawyers, soldiers and police for example.
That’s a little surprising when you consider that journalists are writers. But when you think about it, we are craftsmen while novelists are artists. We ply a trade while they follow their creative spirits. [...]

There are some options appearing now for people who want to create web pages online and have them hosted for free.
The first I came across was Google Page Creator. It adds another feature to the Google suite.
A more recent entry to this market is Weebly, which I think has the edge over Google’s offering.
The control [...]

I experimented today with a new forum script called Vanilla.
My initial observations are that it’s easy to install, attractive and minimalist. The download was just 380kb. It’s not bloated or overloaded with unnecessary features. There’s an active support community and a wide range of add-ons. Word Press integration is feasible.
On the downside it’s fairly difficult [...]

My Kanotix installation died on me last week. It was a self-inflicted fatality; suicide in other words. I went for over a month without upgrading the distro, just updating software instead.
I finally went ahead and the system shock was all too much. I had the black screen of death, but it locked on me and [...]

I’ve installed the latest release candidate of IE7 on my laptop.
It’s fairly impressive and has some features that are similar to Flock and Firefox. The most obvious improvement on previous versions of IE is the implementation of tabbed browsing.
It takes a while adjusting to the look and feel, which will make the transition a little [...]

I must say that I’m very impressed with the latest version of the Flock browser. Earlier versions were a little clumsy and not much more than Firefox clones with a light blue theme, however version 0.7.1 has some outstanding features.
Proclaimed as a social browser, Flock now lives up to its name with handy features integrating [...]

I discovered today that one of my relatives was the bareknuckle boxing champion of Kalgoorlie!
I was pretty sure that we weren’t the first Goreys to live in Kalgoorlie. Shortly after I arrived here I met the secretary of the Goldfields Family History Society to discuss setting up a regular historical feature, and I asked her [...]

It’s a well documented fact the differences between men and women go beyond the obvious features of anatomy. For instance, men have a sense of direction and an ability to park between the white lines that are painted on the road.
Women are much more competent than men when it comes to ironing. I’ve been reflecting [...]

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 [...]

I bought a new bike today. I’m not exactly flush with cash, so it’s something of a luxury, but my old bike is just about ready for the scrapheap.
The retired model is an old Repco, which Juliet bought secondhand several years ago when she thought I should work on my fitness.
It took me a couple [...]