Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

50 Common Interview Questions & Answers

Just saw a post by Rob on a Welsh View that points to a post by Bhuvana which contains a list of 50 common interview questions and explains in short how to answer each of them. It’s a good read and well worth checking out. 1. Tell me about yourself: The most often asked question in interviews. You need to have a short statement prepared

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Blog updated to Lush 0.99.8

Great news I’ve now updated my wordpress blog theme from Lush 0.99.7 to Lush 0.99.8 along with other minor bug fixes and tweaks, so you should now hopefully see some improvements, including: New header, thanks to Eric Cheung for suggesting a lighter colour for the tagline. Small colour changes in the sidebar, so your eyes rest easier. Small speed improvements,

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Internet Explorer 7 Release Candidate 1 for Windows XP

Today, Microsoft have announced the availability of Internet Explorer 7 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) for Windows XP, available via free download at: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/downloads/default.mspx With this release, Microsoft is strongly encouraging web developers, enthusiasts and IT professionals to finalize their testing and ready their environments for the final availability of IE7. Microsoft is confident that developers and designers who optimize their web sites

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Tom Reynolds a BritBlog Member appears on BBC News Website

I was just this minute on the BBC News website when I read the following headline title “Emergency calls – Drunks, blood and hoaxes. The view from inside the ambulance” which reminded me of a so called Tom Reynolds a blogger I meet at the First BritBlog BlogMeetup in London so I clicked the article link to see what it was all about and wow

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Pluto loses status as a planet

About 2,500 astronomers and experts who meet today in Prague the Czech capital for the International Astronomical Union’s (IAU) general assembly have voted to strip Pluto of its status as a planet. Pluto had been considered a planet since its discovery in 1930 by the American Clyde Tombaugh. So to now have pluto effectively airbrushed out of school and university

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Microsoft puts police link on Messenger in UK

Users of Microsoft’s Messenger email service will be able to report suspected sexual predators directly to the police at the click of a mouse. In an attempt to protect the 11 million users of the service from potential abusers, the software giant has struck up a partnership with the UK government-backed Child Exploitation & Online Protection Centre. Microsoft will add

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NotForNoobs.com revealed as Microsoft Habu Gaming Mouse

Just got word from my dear friend Eric Cheung that the NotForNoobs.com Website has now finally revealed what lays behind, that being the Microsoft Habu Gaming Mouse Project, some people or thrilled my this news but others were expecting something more exciting than just a mouse, especially after all the hyper. But hey if you’re a Hard Core Gamer I’m

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Bloggy Award Reviews My Blog

Sweet I just got My Bloggy Award Review with an Overall Experience rating of 9/10, which isn’t too bad at all if you ask me, and even though the rating is quite high I truly believe that I do need to improve my spelling and grammatical sentences when writing my posts. I’ve been looking back at some of the really