Michael Gorey

Broadband speed test

10 January 2010, 4:16pm

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I recently switched my ADSL account from Primus to Internode. I'm happy so far.

Internode should have ADSL2 available in Mount Gambier this year. Take a speed test.

Speed test

broadband, internet

Omega zip disks

10 January 2010, 3:15pm

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I posted on my main blog that I believe the kindle will go the way of the Palm handheld devices that existed before they morphed into mobile phones.

The Palm m100 was a gadget purchase that I regret.

The other dead technological item I readily recall is the zip disk.

Yesterday I discovered several of them in a box in my cupboard.

Zip disk

technology, storage, data, computers

Holiday

7 January 2010, 9:21pm

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I start my first holiday since April on Saturday. It will probably also be my last significant break until the same time next year.

With four children we really have to plan our leave around school holidays and January suits me best.

It's generally quiet in the office.

One problem I've had to consider this year is maintenance of the newspaper website.

I've trained a junior journalist to upload stories, but nobody else has the system knowledge or experience to run certain features (like the poll and upload photos) or moderate comments.

I just have to disable these. Hopefully by this time next year someone will show enough interest to want training in those aspects.

As for the holiday ... can't wait!

holiday

Readability test

3 January 2010, 2:14pm

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These are the readability test results for this website from Juicy Studio.

The Gunning Fox Index score of 8.71 places this site in the same bracket as most popular novels.

The Flesch Reading Ease score of 65.11 is within the aspirational realm for authors of 60-70.

The Flesch-Kincaid Grade of 5.54 means that 11-year-olds can comfortably read the content.

The navigation links have probably distorted the results a little, but I'm happy with the grades. They suggest this site is easily readable, but not juvenile!

language, reading

Mount Gambier social network

2 January 2010, 8:20pm

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This is a screenshot of the Mount Gambier social network site I have setup at http://mountgambier.ning.com/.

It's a little pretentious of me maybe, but I felt it was a logical extension of The Border Watch website.

network,Ning,Mount Gambier,

Name trivia

2 January 2010, 4:16pm

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If you want to learn some trivia about your name visit http://www.isthisyour.name.

For my name I discovered: 42% of the letters are vowels. Of one million first and last names we looked at, 22.8% have a higher vowel make-up. This means you are well envowelled.

According to the US Census Bureau, 2.641% of US residents have the first name 'Michael' and 0.0003% have the surname 'Gorey'. The US has around 300 million residents, so we guesstimate there are 24 Americans who go by the name 'Michael Gorey'.