Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

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Honorary degree for Kelly Holmes

This is pretty cool as because I was at college today and actually got to see Kelly Holmes arrive for here tour of our new college, there was a lot of press around and because our tutor had to go to the ceremony at Rochester Cathedral where Kelly Holmes would receive her honours degree we didn’t have classes in the

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Domains Registered to Google Inc.

The list of domain names being register by Google is increasing day by day, here’s a small collection of them: My-deja.com Gppglr.com Googlesucks.org Googlesyndication.com Googlegalactic.om Googleuniverse.com Googlegalaxy.com Googlesun.com Googlemercury.com Googlepluto.com Has Google gone crazy with domain name buying or are they just trying to stay in the world of domain names so you never miss their name anywhere you go.

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Introducing Google Analytics, Sophisticated, Easy, Free.

Google Analytics is a bit slow at the moment but I’m sure it won’t be long before they get rid of the bugs in it, hopefully later on today I will have some data about my sites! Google Analytics tells you everything you want to know about how your visitors found you and how they interact with your site. You’ll

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How To Disappear From Society

Disappearing from society is becoming harder by every day that passes but there is still some hope that you can get away and not be noticed it all depends on what you do, here’s an extract of a really good article I found on disappearing from society in America. Vanishing Point: How to disappear in America without a trace. There

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Microsoft Delays Windows Vista Beta 2 to 2006

Microsoft will soon delay the release of Windows Vista Beta 2 from December 7, 2005 to sometime in January or February 2006. The big question now is whether this will jeopardize the final ship date that was supposed to be in Summer 2006. Exclusive: Microsoft Hits Windows Vista Beta 2 Delays Paul Thurrott InstantDoc #48408 Paul Thurrott’s WinInfo Sources at

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Giant ancient sea creature discovered

Check this intersting article out! A newfound ancient sea creature looks to be part crocodile, part T. rex, and 100 percent terrifying. The 13-foot long beast, Dakosaurus andiniensis, had a massive 18-inch-long jaw with interlocking 4-inch teeth. It is a long-lost relative of the crocodile yet it had fins. A digital rendering of the creature reveals the sort of thing

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Msn Mobile Beta Cell Mate Gift

Today in the UK post I finally received my Msn Mobile Beta Cell Mate Gift which was sent to us Beta testers who participated in the Msn Mobile Beta, it’s really cool and it fits perfectly in my car, now things like this is why I love Microsoft and Msn because the users get something back for all their hard

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Msn Discussion is now Ms Discussion

That’s right yesterday mine and Henriks recently created Msn Discussion site went through some major changes the first one being a change of domain name from MsnDiscussion.com to MsDiscussion.com and the second being an upgrade from PhpBB 2.0.18 to IPB 2.1.3 we have made both of these changes because of what changes Ms (Microsoft) has done recently to their product