I’ve picked up mgorey user names with Yahoo! and Windows Live to replace goreymedia and mjgorey (hotmail) respectively. That means my user name is now mgorey across all the major messaging services: Gmail, Yahoo (ymail), Skype and MSN (live). Full contact list here. I’m also experimenting with Nimbuzz, which aggregates IM accounts and makes them [...]
Eating spam is yummy!
After being inspired by Sybil Law, I checked my spam folder on Google Mail. It’s fascinating. Top of the list was an email from Katrina Madelyn offering me drugs from a Canadian pharmacy, including Viagra and others I had never head of like Flomax and Rockit247. ViagraOralJelly sounds interesting. Nestor Sheppard, whose email address is [...]
The must-have (apparently) keyword post
The Girl Who Wished She Was Australian did a keyword post. She has seen other people do it. I haven’t seen it before, but I lead a sheltered life. These are the top 10 keywords driving people to my site, according to Google Analytics: kalgoorlie miner google finance y7mail cloudstreet AFL drugs michael gorey yakedi [...]
Government plans to censor the web
For some bizarre unknown reason the Australian Government is moving unilaterally to join China in censoring the internet. I’m not making this up and it’s not April Fool’s Day. The Courier Mail reports that Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has hatched a $44.2 million plan to control what we read online. Internet censorship will involve two [...]
Comments now moderated
A visitor left a defamatory comment on this website overnight, which I didn’t notice until this morning. I’m sorry it took that wrong to remove it. The remarks related to a former work colleague of mine. I’ve been posting here since July 2003 without needing to hold comments for moderation, but that’s now changed, unfortunately. [...]
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