Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

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Flickr Xmas Easter Egg HoHoHo!

Heard word from Robert Gale yeserday that Flickr have implemented an easter egg for Christmas. It’s pretty funny, you can add a beard to a someone in a photo by naming a photonote called “ho ho ho hat” and add a beard by naming a photonote “ho ho ho beard”. Check this one out of me, found on Robs Flickr

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Yesterday’s UK EVO Launch was great!

Yesterday myself and three others from the University of Kent headed down to Reading for Microsoft’s Technet UK Ready for a New Day: Launch of Microsoft Exchange Server, Windows Vista and 2007 Microsoft Office System (aka the EVO Launch). And well we just want to say that we thought it was brilliant! So well done to everybody who helped orgainse it, you done a

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Christmas BritBlog Blogmeet 2006

Well I went to the Christmas BritBlog blogmeet in London last night with Robert Gale and well what can I say it turned out to be pretty good, there were around 15 people at one point! 🙂 Here’s a list of attendees with the corresponding links to their blogs, sorry if I misspelled any names, the list isn’t in its best

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Great Escape Festival 2007 plans to be bigger and better!

Barfly are proud to announce the return of The Great Escape Festival which will bring the best of live music from across the World back to Brighton on the 17th 19th May next year, after this years The Great Escape Festival reportedly became Europe’s best global export ready showcase festival.  Which isn’t bad at all considering it was it’s first year! The

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Artist Registration now open for The Great Escape 2007 Festival

The Great Escape Festival www.escapegreat.com is Europe’s most established showcase event for both new and signed artists and is THE place to get your music heard by both media and industry, as well as 5,000 punters! And this year Live Sessions has teamed up with The Great Escape Festival to provide the event’s unique registration system for unsolicited applications. If

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Free trial of 2007 Microsoft Office system

Try out your choice of suites or programs from the 2007 Microsoft Office release for 60 days! Trial programs contain the same functionality that you get when you buy the perpetual versions-but only for a limited time. UK and Ireland: http://ukireland.trymicrosoftoffice.com US: http://us1.trymicrosoftoffice.com http://us7.trymicrosoftoffice.com http://us20.trymicrosoftoffice.com Canada: http://canada.trymicrosoftoffice.com Germany: http://germany.trymicrosoftoffice.com France: http://france.trymicrosoftoffice.com Japan: http://japan.trymicrosoftoffice.com/ Available downloads: Microsoft Office Professional 2007 Microsoft

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Preparing for Windows Vista retail on windowsvistaretail.com

Confused by which version of Windows Vista you want? Then you need some helpful advice featuring aliens. Microsoft has provided same at Windowsvistaretail.com, a new site designed to provide guidance for those on the shop-floor frontline. Rather than a standard product brief, it’s dispensing wisdom in the form of a series of animated shorts explaining the different versions, the importance of

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Registration full for Microsoft’s UK launch of Windows Vista

Registration for Microsoft’s UK Ready for a New Day Event which will see the launch of Microsoft Exchange Server, 2007 Microsoft Office System and Windows Vista is now full and all current registrations will be put on the wating list, so I hope you’ve registerd in time! 🙂 I myself will be going as a Microsoft Student Partner Representaive for the

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MSN Hotmail celebrates its 10th Birthday

World’s most popular email service reaches double figures MSN Hotmail, the UK’s first free web-based e-mail service, is celebrating its ten year anniversary this month.  Founded by entrepreneurs Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith, MSN Hotmail officially launched in November 1996 and in the last ten years it has become one of the major corner stones of the internet, dramatically revolutionising

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The All-New www.backofmyhand.com

Introducing an exciting new site called enabling you to become a local … anywhere. You can use this new site as a place for all the collections you’ve created on Windows Live Maps Search – collected together in a single online tourist guide. BackOfMyHand allows you to share your knowledge of your hometown, places you’ve visited, or find information on