Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

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Give to ninemillion.org with every search!

This has been said before but many of you still haven’t hear of it so I beileve it deserves a mention again as help for the world’s nine million child refugees is just a click away thanks to the online fundraising effort called Click for the Cause. For every windows live search made using Click for the Cause until March 31, 2007,

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The Great Escape 2007 – More Artists & Speakers Announced!

The Great Escape Festival returns on the 17th-19th May bringing the best of live music from across the World back to Brighton. ARTIST ANNOUNCEMENT! – More Artists announced for 2007: Barfly are excited to announce that the following artists have been added to the bill for this year’s Great Escape Festival:This follows last week’s announcement where we confirmed that The Besnard

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Headliners for Virgin Mobile V Festival 2007

Virgin Radio have just this moment exclusively revealed the headliners of the 12th Virgin Mobile V Festival on the 18th and 19th of August 2007 as The Killers, Foo Fighters and Snow Patrol. Other bands confirmed to play are Virgin Radio regulars Mika, The Kooks, The Fratellis, The Fray, The Goo Goo Dolls, Manic Street Preachers, James Morrison, KT Tunstall, Damien Rice,

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Microsoft’s List Of 800 Windows Vista-Compatible Apps

Earlier this week, Microsoft published a list of 800 applications that should run properly on its new Windows Vista operating system. On its Web site, Microsoft says the number of applications certified for use with Windows Vista is constantly growing and that its list “will be update weekly.” View: Applications that Microsoft has approved for Vista

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Second Microsoft Student Partners Event – London 2007

Wow what a great weekend I had last week (Monday 18th – Sunday 19th February 2007), probably one of my best in London yet! Because not only was in London for the second MSP (Microsoft Student Partners) Event to take place this academic year 2006/2007 but I was also there to have the chance to celebrate the first day of the

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UK Workers spend 24 working days a year in stitches!

It’s a funny old business UK Workers spend 24 working days a year in stitches  New research today reveals that UK workers spend an average of 45 minutes each day having a good giggle. That’s the equivalent of half a day (3.75 hours) per week and 24 working days each year – 4 days more than the average UK worker’s

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Windows Live Make The World a Better Space Competition

Not long to go now until the Windows Live Make The World a Better Space Competition ends on Friday the 23rd of February 2007, so if you haven’t added the Better Space Prize Gadget to you’re Windows Live Spaces yet, then you better hurry! 🙂 So we’ve created the Better Space Gadget that’ll present you with a daily stream of

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Microsoft Wow Search Term!

Damn do I love search term statistics of how people got to my blog or what! Just noticed that if you search for “Microsoft Wow” either with quotes or without that I rank quite high in the search engines: Position number 5 in Google: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=microsoft+wow Position number 7 in Live Search: http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=microsoft+wow Position number 10 in Yahoo Search: http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=microsoft+wow Update: Seems like my

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Microsoft & BT Launch connected services sandbox competitions

Yesterday at 3GSM World Congress 2007, Microsoft Corp. and BT announced the launch of the Connected Services Sandbox competition series to help promote the development of innovative customer solutions that merge traditional telecommunications offerings such as voice or text messaging with Web 2.0 applications such as mapping or search. The competitions will be managed by TopCoder Inc., a leader in online