Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

Netcraft’s April 2006 Web Server Survey

Earlier today I was just finishing of one of my college assignments when I thought that it would be a good idea to include a Web Server Survey Graph from Netcraft, I loaded up Netcraft.com and to my surprise instead of seeing the usual increase of Apache Web Serves being used on the Web, it actually showed a reduce of

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Schedule Update – Expression Web Designer CTP1

Great news for us Beta Testers of Microsoft’s Expression Web Designer, it looks like we will have a CTP (Community Technology Preview) version of the Expression Web Designer by the 2nd of May 2006, here’s a post from Devindra S. Chainani’s  Blog, a Group Program Manager for the Expression Web Designer: Expression Web Designer will release a confidential CTP1 for

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Microsoft’s I Love UMPC Contest

The guys over at the Microsoft Origami Project Team Blog have now announced the I Love UMPC Contest. Which gives you the chance to win a Samsung Q1 UMPC and Slingbox or an origamiproject.com t-shirt. Your entry will be judged on theme, creativity and originality and it also helps if they’re well-written. You have until midnight PT on the 28th of April 2006 to

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wordpress.com bunnies working hard to fix downtime!

Looks like the wordpress.com bunnies are working hard to fix the downtime issues Update! Matt here again. We have everything back online, checked, and verified. However we are going to keep blogs offline for a few more minutes to synchronize the backup machines and prevent this sort of problem from ever happening again. Thanks for your patience and understanding. Downtime

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Congratulations from the Buddy Program at CafeMSN – March 2006

Wooow I cant beileve it, I have yet again won a prize on the Buddy Program at CaféMSN, the last time I won on the 6th of April 2006 which was for the February 2006 prize selection were I won a £20 gift voucher, but this time I have won the grand mega prize which is a £80 online shopping gift voucher

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Samsung plans Origami PC launch

More news for us ultramobile PC fans! Samsung has scheduled an event for next month to mark the U.S. release of its Q1 ultramobile PC, the first brand-name device to launch using Microsoft’s Origami concept. The Korean electronics giant did not offer any new details on the product in its e-mail invitation to journalists, but said it would launch the

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David Blaine Set to Live in Aquarium

David Blaine the 33-year-old magician is planning on living underwater for seven days and nights in a “human aquarium” in front of New York’s Lincoln Centre. He will conclude by attempting to hold his breath underwater longer than the record of 8 minutes, 58 seconds. The finale of his latest stunt will air live in a two-hour ABC special on