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ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

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Microsoft Student Partners (MSP) Applications 07/08 Now Open!

As you probably know I have been a UK Microsoft Student Partner (MSP) for this Academic Year 2006/2007 at The University of Kent and well what can say, I absolutely love it. It’s everything I expected and a hell of a lot more! So if you are a student passionate about technology, ready to share your knowledge and want to

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Visited PC Pro Offices London with The Kent IT Clinic

Well what a smashing day it was yesterday, my visit with The Kent IT Clinic to the PC Pro Offices in London was a real insight into how Dennis Publishing and PC Pro Magazine work as a company in the Computing Publishing industry. The visit started of with an introduction from Barry Collins to PC Pro and Dennis Publishing, this session

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Reading and Leeds Music Festival 2007 Website Update!

w00t theres been a Reading and Leeds Music Festival 2007 Update. A brand new spanking Reading and Leeds Music Festival website is being built and will be launched on Saturday the 17th of March 2007 at 7:00pm. This site will be available at the following addresses: http://www.readingfestival.com/ http://www.leedsfestival.com/ Which at this current point in time tell you that on monday the

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All aboard the bus from London to Sydney!

For £3,750 you can take a 12-week bus ride from London to Sydney. The journey will take you through 20 countries including Turkey, Iran, India, China and Malaysia. The first trip leaves in September, with plans already in place for two more services, departing in January and May 2008. In a way it reminds me of the Summer Holiday, a British musical

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Reading Festival 2007 Rumours

Reading Festival 2007 is still several months away and I’m already excited, so excited that I still haven’t picked who’s going with me for free, yep you heard me right, last year I was a winner on the Microsoft Windows Live Sessions Fans Competition which gave me the chance to go with a friend (or someone very special 😉 ) to one of the various Major

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Windows Vista Remote Desktop Authentication Certificate Error

For some time now I’ve been trying to use Windows Vistas Remote Desktop Connection Application to remotely connect from one Computer with Windows Vista Ultimate installed to another Computer with Windows Vista Ultimate installed on the same local area network and workgroup. But every time I try to connect to the other PC from either the first or second PC I get the

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Top 10 Search Keyphrases for February 2007

1415 different keyphrases were used to find my site in February 2007, here are the top 10 with the amount of times they were used plus their overal usage percentage. vtunnel | 3350 | 39.2% https //vtunnel.com | 404 | 4.7% https// vtunnel.com | 326 | 3.8% https//vtunnel.com | 318 | 3.7% websites like vtunnel | 111 | 1.3% sites | like | vtunnel

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This Account Has Been Suspended – HostGator!

09:15am GMT (04:15am EST) Just turned my PC on and eek for some reason my domain name “darrenstraight.com” is coming up with this message: This Account Has Been Suspended Please contact the billing/support department as soon as possible. I hurry up and load my Billing Page for this domain hosted at HostGator and within minutes I find the problem, it