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ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

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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