Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

Saving up for a holiday to the USA!

Ok well today I was watching television and a program called Only in America came on and well what can I say I liked it so much that I’ve now put myself forward a challenge too get enough money to travel to the United States of America for a week or so on a holiday of a life time, and though

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Steve Mallette vs. Digg controversy

Here’s some great news, Steve Mallette is out in the clear! Earlier today, O’Reilly found itself at the center of a controversy on the popular news site, digg.com. Steve Mallett, O’Reilly Network editor and blogger, was very publicly accused, via a Digg story, of stealing Digg’s CSS pages. The story was voted up rapidly and made the homepage, acquiring thousands of diggs

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O’Reilly writer Steve Mallett has stolen digg’s code

Now this is interesting and after checking it my self it seems like it’s for real, but then again did he just use the source from somewhere else like pligg.com which is an open source version of digg basically! Steve Mallett from O’Reilly has stolen digg’s code It seems Steve Mallett, (writer for O’Reilly) has copy-and-pasted digg’s CSS and HTML directly into

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Optimus Keyboard February 1st!

Ok well I was looking around on digg today and found out that the Optimus Keyboard is to be released February 1st, this is great news as so many of us have been waiting for this announcement for ages and now finally we know it’s coming. I’ll defiantly be trying to get one though I may have to wait until the

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Search Keyphrases November/December 2005 (Top 10)

207 different keyphrases where used to find my site in December 2005, here are the top 10 with the amount of time they were used and their percentage. pplparty 19 5.4 % thatvistablog 16 4.5 % combine wall lithograph 8 2.2 % weemee promo code 8 2.2 % darren straight 7 1.9 % link http //www.milliondollarhomepage.com/ 7 1.9 % link

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GoogleCommunity.com website down!

Update 2: GoogleCommunity.com is now back online! Update: website is online at temporary location googleboard.com. Well as you might know I’m one of the administrators at Google Community (http://www.googlecommunity.com/) which is a discussion forum for everything related to Google and more. Anyway today at around 16:16 a member and also friend of mine from Google Community called Laurent contacted me

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Windows Live Mail Invites being sent out!

Well I’ve already been on the Windows Live Mail for sometime but I just got this email in my other MSN Hotmail account! You’re Invited We want you, one of our Hotmail VIPs, to experience the next generation of Web-based e-mail – Windows Live Mail Beta. We’ve been testing the service, and we feel like it’s now ready for some

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MSN Invites me to Windows Live Session UK/1

This morning I got one of the most surprising emails I’ve ever got especially as I found it in my Junk Box, what was it you say well it wasn’t anything other than an email from MSN Inviting me to a Windows Live Session in London to get a sneak preview of some Windows Live Services and Products. Yeah that’s

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YaCy – P2P Based Distributed Web Search Engine

Today I had someone visiting my site from http://www.yacy.net/yacy/, so I thought I would check this domain out and see what it’s all about and well what it’s seems to be is a P2P Based Distributed Web Search Engine, I’ve never heard of one before so I’m going to do some more investigation onto what they do, but for now

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Own The Last 1,000 Pixels on MillionDollarHomepage.com

This morning I recieved the following email! Hi Darren, I thought you’d like to hear my big news: I’ve almost hit the million dollar mark! I say “almost” because there are still 1,000 pixels available, and due to exceptionally high demand, I’m auctioning them off on eBay: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5652179487&ssPageName=ADME:L:LCA:UK:31 MillionDollarHomepage.com has received over 1 million unique visitors in the last 48