Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

Era Ends: Western Union Stops Sending Telegrams

After 145 years, Western Union has quietly stopped sending telegrams. On the company’s web site, if you click on “Telegrams” in the left-side navigation bar, you’re taken to a page that ends a technological era with about as little fanfare as possible: “Effective January 27, 2006, Western Union will discontinue all Telegram and Commercial Messaging services. We regret any inconvenience

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Google Redux: a design exercise

I saw this site posted on digg yesterday while on my PDA, it’s worth checking out, I think the redisgn of the Google Homepage this guy has done is pretty good! It seems that now and perhaps into the future, all your base are belong to Google. The company has done a good job becoming the search tool of choice

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Search Keyphrases January 2006 (Top 10)

246 different keyphrases where used to find my site in January 2006, here are the top 10 with the amount of time they were used and their percentage. flyakite osx 3 32 7.6 % link pfgo_npqpeuj www.milliondollarhomepage.com/ 13 3.1 % thatvistablog 13 3.1 % link www.milliondollarhomepage.com 12 2.8 % pplparty 9 2.1 % link http //www.milliondollarhomepage.com/ 7 1.6 % blg

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The Retard Nation

About 10 minutes ago or so I was talking to Kevin (aka: KillKev) somebody I met ages ago on Google Community, and well I thought I would ask how his sites are going and well he told be that his first site killkev.net is going cool but not as well as his other site which is called The Retard Nation, I havent been to this site

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How real-time is the blogosphere?

I just came across this blog post after seeing Robert Scoble post a link to it. At 4:02PM (Eastern), Google poststheir Q4 earning results on the Business Wire. The big, big news (definitely the biggest news out of the valley for today) is that their numbers fell short of consensus estimates. At 5:11PM Reuters poststheir summary of this news item

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Pure Pwnage – 1,500,000 noobs pwned – ‘Taking noobs to school since 2004’

This is one of them sites that you just have to love! Pure Pwnage (pronounced “Pure Ownage”) is a webisode series by “ROFLMAO Productions”. The show portrays the aspects of a “gamer’s life”, featuring a Canadian self-proclaimed pro video game player named Jeremy. Jeremy reveals what it is like to be a pro gamer through a combination of interviews and

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Google’s communications breakdown

I have just been reading this article on the BBC website, it’s about Google and it’s Headquarters not looking anything like you would think it would look like! The headquarters of the most popular search engine in the world is a remarkably unimpressive place. Google’s base is more industrial than architectural Mountain View, California, sounds like a glamorous address. But

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Making some changes to this blog

Just thought that I’d let you all know that over the next couple or weeks or so I’ll be changing a couple of things on my Sites and Blog’s, these changes will hopefully make it easier for you the visitor to find the information you need quicker, I will also be making it easier for you all to contact me.