Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

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

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What is Damn Small Linux, a.k.a. DSL?

I have just been told about this little Linux distribution by my friend Kevin at college, it looks very interesting and I think I’m going to test it out in the coming days; you might want to test it out too! 🙂 DSL is a very versatile 50MB mini desktop oriented Linux distribution. Damn Small is small enough and smart

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How far can your mind go?

I was just reading this article on unexplained-mysteries.com and just had to post about it here, it’s very intersting and I think I have to agree with everything that it says! How far can your mind go?  By Frank B. Glover , Posted on 01.01.06  Within the realm of reality everyone has a reason to believe in anything. What you

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WordPress 2.0 finally released!

WordPress 2.0 has finally been released, so it looks like I’ll be updating from WordPress 1.5.1.3 to WordPress 2.0 very soon, probably later on today! 😀 The WordPress community is very proud to present the next generation of WordPress to the world, our 2.0 Duke release, named in honor of jazz pianist and composer Duke Ellington. We’ve been working long

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Happy New Year for now it is 2006!

Happy New Year Everyone it’s now the beginning of a New Year that being the Year 2006 well actually it’s still the year 2005 for about half the world but hopefully by the time you all read this it will be 2006 for everyone. Anyway I just want to say that I hope you have all had a great time