Michael Gorey

The twins celebrated their third birthday today. It's hard to believe they are that old already.

Here's the entry I wrote the day after they were born.

Jim and Maggie aren't old enough to understand it's their birthday, but they know it's a special day because of the presents they received and the party we had [...]

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’ve taken a look at the Meebo instant messaging web site today. This is an internet service that enables chat through a browser without having to download a program like Gaim, Trillian or Miranda.
I’m not a big IM user but I can see the potential benefits. I came to Meebo because I downloaded Portable Gaim [...]

Here’s a screenshot of Gentoo using a KDE desktop with a background picture of Jim and Maggie.
There’s nothing uniquely special about it. A couple of extra observations from my previous post:
Gentoo boots more quickly than any other distro I’ve tried; about the same as Windows XP.
Some of the stable packages are out of date. That’s [...]

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 don’t think I’ve ever written it here before, but my middle name is John. My full name is the same as my grandfather and uncle. My uncle was sadly killed in Victoria’s Black Friday bushfire of 1939.
I searched for my name on Google tonight and a reference to the Tanjil Bren bushfire tragedy was [...]

I’ve discovered a new blog gadget called Performancing. It includes a Firefox extension that enables blog posting from the browser and formatting.
It works with Word Press and seems a nifty tool.

I upgraded this web site’s publishing tool today to Word Press version 2. I was hesitant to do so given some negative comments regarding plugins and themes, but with some rare time on my hands before the new jobs starts I decided to give it a go.
It all went smoothly. The only plugin that appears [...]