Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

Day trip out in London

Hey everyone this post today comes directly from a Mc Donald’s Internet PC near Piccadilly Circus, as I’m up in London for the day out, I’ll update this post later with some photos and a bit about my day out! Ok better be going there’s loads to do. Next stop Microsoft’s offices as I’ll be going there next week and

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The Million Dollar Homepage is back online

Looks like the Million Dollar Homepage is now back online!  Hi Darren, I’m pleased to report that The Million Dollar Homepage is back online after almost 6 days of downtime due to a malicious attack by hackers who tried to extort $50,000 from me. I’m pleased to say that I did not pay a penny, and worked closely with my

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Gamer Commits Suicide on Forums

Very very sad, but true, poor guy! SOFIA (AFP) – A 21-year-old American online gaming fan broadcast his suicide on a Bulgarian Internet forum.   Named as Mitchell S., the gamer switched on his web cam and swallowed a large amount of motor antifreeze and pills after complaining about family problems and a lack of money, forum administrator Boyan Georgiev

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Microsoft Flight Simulator X

It has just came to my attention that the next version of Microsoft Flight Simulator will be called Microsoft Flight Simulator X, and what can I say the Graphics and the detail of realism are definitely getting better with each release, what you don’t believe me, then why not go and check out the link bellow and then come back

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5 Years of Wikipedia!

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, turned 5 years old January 15, 2006. The English Wikipedia alone now has more than 920,000 articles, with over 340,000,000 words. The millionth article is expected to appear in late February or early March. The combined Wikipedias for all languages have an estimated total of over 3,100,000 articles in some two hundred languages. Eighty-four of the