Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

NASA Unveils Plan to Go Back to the Moon by 2008

For the first time since Apollo, NASA will be sending a rocket to the moon for the deployment of a probe in 2008! April 10, 2006 — NASA announced today it will send a rocket to crash into the moon, an early step to delivering the first astronauts to the planet since the last Apollo missions more than 30 years

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The nonsense about AdSense

Benjamin Cohen, the former teenaged dot.com millionaire, has run into a problem as he tries to make his next million: Google won’t pay him for ads run on his website This story sounds exactly like what happened to me and loads of other people on the web I know who are honest people that do not click there own ad’s and

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Six pack by summer – Sixpackbysummer.com

Erik Kastner the guy that made “Spell With Flickr” is giving people $1,000 out of his own pocket if he doesnt have a visable 6-Pack this summer. Six Pack by Summer is an experiment in willpower and game theory. I, Erik Kastner, will have until July 4th, 2006 to show the world a 4-pack, then a little more time for

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Half-Life 2: Episode One Website

A new website dedicated to Valve’s up-coming Half-Life 2: Episode One release is now online with some interesting news and a video trailer. The First New Episode Half-Life 2 has sold over 4 million copies worldwide, and earned over 35 Game of the Year Awards. Episode One is the first in a series of games that reveal the aftermath of

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Fake Microsoft Cumulative Patch: W32.Gibe@mm virus

I had a couple of these fake Microsoft Cumulative Patch emails last month but I now seem to be receiving a bit more than usual, so please beware yourselves of them because they are NOT from Microsoft but from somebody mass-mailing various people with theses emails which contain the W32.Gibe@mm worm as an attachment which should NOT be opened! The

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Windows Live Image Search Beta

Ok let’s forget about the fancy looks and gadgets of Windows Live Image Search Beta for a minute and let’s get straight down to what really matters, that being adequate image search results! Ok let’s try some image search queries, first with the normal MSN Image search: http://search.msn.com/images/results.aspx?q=medway+building 34 results found containing medway building 12 images were of the medway

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Congratulations from the Buddy Program at CafeMSN

Today on the return home from work I had a great surprise awaiting for me in my email inbox, it was an email with the title “Congratulations” now normally I would just think great more spam but as I saw it was from the Buddy Program at CafeMSN, well my eyes light up with joy and I immediately opened it