Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

Mind control over muscle power

Thinking about the way your muscles work could physically boost your strength, research suggests. A Hull University team asked 30 subjects to do biceps curls and found their muscles worked more when they focused on what the muscles were doing. But lower rates of muscle activity were recorded when they simply visualised themselves lifting the weight. The study is being

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How dodgy are you?

Is life hunky-dory?.. Sleeping peacefully at night? Well everything may not be as it seems. While there are plenty of you who deliberately interpret the law in your own special way, most of you may think you’re a model citizen. But little do you know… Fill in the Crime Sheet and find out exactly what you’ve been getting away with.

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A Photo of some of my old pc stuff that lays in my cupboard!

This afternoon I was looking on my MS Discussion forums and came across the following post by mondine: I guess one of these days, I’m going to have to upgrade from Win98. I’ll probably get XP, about the time they’re ready to replace Vista. And well just before reading that post I had just been sorting out some of my old PC stuff

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WordPress Widgets Plugin (WPW)

The WordPress Widgets Plugin (WPW) is now available for download well that is once WordPress site is back up, just before I was going to post this I refreshed the WordPress.org page I had open and it noticed it now said “WordPress.org is taking a lunch break.” it’s been like that for quite a while now but yeah I’ve finally

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Windows Live Mail Desktop Beta Begins!

Well it looks like the Windows Live Mail Desktop Beta has finally begun but only with around 100 testers, though this will expand to some 5000 beta testers within the coming weeks it might take a while so I recommend you keep and eye out for an invite in your inbox, but for now why not read below for more

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EU uneasy about Microsoft Vista

The European Commission has once again expressed concerns about Microsoft’s competition on the Computer Market but Microsoft says that they have let rivals be involved in the developing of the new Windows Vista operating system, read the full story below. BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Commission said Wednesday it told Microsoft that it has competition worries about the firm’s new

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Total Solar Eclipse of 2006 March 29

Just heard about this via the Nasa Website: On Wednesday, 2006 March 29, a total eclipse of the Sun will be visible from within a narrow corridor which traverses half the Earth. The path of the Moon’s umbral shadow begins in Brazil and extends across the Atlantic, northern Africa, and central Asia where it ends at sunset in western Mongolia. A

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TorrentSpy takes on the MPAA!

So it now seems that the MPAA is trying to outlaw the .torrent file format, has the MPAA gone mad, this really is pushing the limits on what they can do, don’t you think? Sure I can understand them trying to stop pirating in general but this is a file extension which I must say is used in the general

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Uploaded some of my Technical Drawings from Bachillerato 2003

After a long wait I’ve finally decided to upload some of my Technical Drawings from my Bachillerato (sixth form) Course I did in 2003, I hope you like them because I certainly do mainly because I know I did them all on my own and also because I was top of the class in Technical Drawing! View more Technical Drawings

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egoSurf finds your blogs ranking in google

With egoSurf you can find your blogs ranking in google. “Actually it doesn’t have to be your blog, and it ain’t just google.” say’s developer Jason Hyland. What is egoSurf ? Find your place, know your place. Take a look at our about page. We’ve not got a mission statement. So, how does it work ? Simple. You enter your