Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

Happy Birthday Bill Gates!

Happy Birthday Bill Gates, wish you all the best now that your 50! This weekend saw Mr Bill Gates turn the magic age of 50, half a century. It has been quite a year for Bill and birthdays, with his own Microsoft turning 30 this year. While people have their mixed views on Gates, its safe to say one thing

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iAlmond – Towards the World!

I’ve once again been invited to another global community site were each user has their own hompage where the can share with trusted people their photos and storys, so why not sign up now and give it a go! iAlmond is the official name of this website, which means ¡°Towards the World¡± in Esperanto. At iAlmond, each member updates photos

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Blog comment spam attacks!

Yep that’s right Blog comment spam attacks, I cam in from work yesterday and found that I had 50 new Blog comments to moderate, this is a huge amount of comments to moderate considering I normally only get a couple a day, anyway I marked them all as spam as I noticed that all the comments were linking to various

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Half Life 2 Mod Makers Guide (Prima) Cancelled

Well this isn’t new news but I wanted to bring this topic up again as I never did get a reply from prima which makes me very angry has a lot of people worldwide really wanted this guide and they ruined it for them! 🙁 Here’s some interesting links you may want to check out! Prima Game Thread My HL2World.com

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Multiply – You Have Been Invited!

I have just been invited by a friend to test a new social networking site out called Multiply, just looking at it now, its not that bad but I’ll have too look around more to get the full feeling of what it has. What it is Multiply is a web site that makes it easy to share photos, blogs, videos,

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Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2006 Final

Truly a great piece of software, I recommend you test it out to see the results for yourself. Thank you for participating in the Data Protection Manager beta program! The final version of Data Protection Manager is now available! The evaluation version can be downloaded at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/dpm/evaluation/trial.mspx As the latest member of the Windows Server System family, Microsoft® System Center

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Half-Life 2: The Lost Coast Released

Half-Life 2: The Lost Coast has been Released, this is what I have been waiting ages for and it’s finally here, but there’s just one problem, I’m still upset over Valve and why I haven’t got any reply from “webmaster@steampowered.com” has to why my ISP IP is banned from the Steam Forums, I sent an email last night to Gabe