Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

Scoble goes to google

There’s a post over at Microsoft’s Channel 9 Website which contains a comic strip about Google and what it’s really doing, this post was posted by Jamie a member of the site becuase he wanted to honour the 10 most recent google threads there. 🙂 It’s quite a laugh! See it here

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The Blue Nowhere by Jeffery Deaver

It’s now one o’clock in the morning here in the UK and I would just like to say that I’ve finally finished reading The Blue Nowhere by Jeffery Deaver and I would just like to say thank you to Lianne (elnube) for recommending it to me and that I too would like to recommend it as it truly was a

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Hurricane smashes into New Orleans

Looks like Hurricane Katrina is hitting New Orleans bad, here’s an article from the BBC. Hurricane Katrina is pummelling New Orleans with howling gusts and blinding rain, after sweeping ashore over the southern Louisiana coast. The storm has knocked out power and submerged part of the low-lying city in up to 6ft (2m) of rising water. Katrina has torn part

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Stellarium Astronomy Software

Stellarium isa free GPL (Open Source) desktop software planetarium for Linux/Unix, Windows and MacOSX, what it does, is it renders realistic skies in real time with openGL which means the skies will look exactly like what you see with your eyes, binoculars, or a small telescope and the great thing of all is it’s easy to use even for beginners.

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SQL Server 2005 CTP DVD/CD kit

Today I have received through the post a DVD containing SQL Server 2005 June Community Technology Preview that I ordered online last week after receiving a Microsoft Newsletter about it welcoming me to get a free copy to test it out, I probably will be installing it this afternoon. This CTP Kit Includes: SQL Server 2005 (virtual environment) Product overview

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BBC show sets teen sex challenge

I was reading about this yesterday in a News Paper and I thought I would let you people know about it so here’s an article from the BBC News Website of what it’s really about. A BBC show has challenged 12 teenagers to stay celibate for five months. In No Sex Please, We’re Teenagers, two Christian youth workers tried to

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BBC plans to put channels online

The BBC’s TV channels could be made available online within the next year, here’s an article from the BBC News Website: The BBC’s TV channels could be made available on the internet, one of the corporation’s top executives has said. A simulcast of BBC One or BBC Two, letting UK viewers see programmes on the web at the same time

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Performance Review at Work

Today I have received my Performance Review at work which is also pay related, I don’t know the exact pay rise yet but it probably wont be a lot even though I’m great at my work, here’s a brief version of what results I obtained: Standards at Work and Initiative Maintains a high standard of QS&C and uses initiative well.