Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

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Loose Change 2nd Edition Film

Has anybody else seen the Loose Change 2nd Edition Film? “Loose Change 2nd Edition” is the follow-up to the most provocative 9-11 documentary on the market today. This film shows direct connection between the attacks of September 11, 2001 and the United States government. Evidence is derived from news footage, scientific fact, and most important, Americans who suffered through that

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Code of ethics to be published for machines!

THE race is on to keep humans one step ahead of robots: an international team of scientists and academics is to publish a “code of ethics” for machines as they become more and more sophisticated. Dilemmas may arrive sooner than we think, says Christensen. “People are going to be having sex with robots within five years”. Keeping control New robo-ethics

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phpBB 3.0 Olympus Beta1 released!

phpBB 3.0 Olympus Beta1 is was released for download last night, so go ahead and check it out, it has loads of new features, most of which you’ve all been waiting for a long time now. But saying this remember this is a beta, so it’s recommended that you don’t start being crazy by installing it on a current live forum that

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Robert Scoble on Newsnight talking about Bill Gates

I missed BBC’s Newsnight last night, in which Robert Scoble appeared talking about Bill Gates, but I have now just watched it on the BBC Newsnight Website, and it’s pretty interesting. Thanks goes to a comment left by Duncan on Robert’s Blog for posting the link. http://tinyurl.com/s9bhw (Real Player) http://tinyurl.com/mcq32 (Windows Media Player)

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Windows Live Session Tokyo #1!

Unfortunately I don’t know Japanese, but I did just find the pics for the recent Windows Live Session held in Tokyo, after the success of the European ones, and yes there will be a Windows Live Session in the US soon, around late summer/fall. But for now here’s the link to the tokyo pics, check out the space invader gadget!

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BCS Event – 28 July 2006 – Digital Forensics in Law Enforcement

Now I don’t normally blog about what events the BCS (British computer society) is holding as everybody else who probably already wants to attend BCS Events has probably already set themselves on the mailing list, but as this event looks quite interesting and  Non BCS members are welcome to attend, I thought I might as well blog about it! Friday 28th

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MSN Games Turns Ten

The year was 1996, and the Internet still had training wheels when Microsoft entered the realm of online games.  Originally known as The Village, the site began as a retail matchmaking destination for massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs).  But Microsoft quickly realized that a different kind of gamer was waiting to be cultivated the casual gamer who was interested in

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Windows Live Favorites V1 Released

Windows Live Favorites V1 was released last night out of Beta, with the following enhancements and features: Expanded Market Support Live Favorites is now available in 37 markets and 11 languages around the world. Live Favorites Bookmarklet Bookmark allows you to easily add websites to your Live Favorites account from with the click of a link! Live Favorites Messenger Tab

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New Windows Live.com page design is live!

Need I say anymore, go and check it out at http://www.live.com Update: Seems theres quite a few problems with the design IE6 is giving me an error on line 122 with the default content, and by looking at the source code it looks like line 122 is a piece of JavaScript which calls all the gadgets If you change the