Darren Straight's Blog

Hey peeps, there’s a party going on and you’re all invited!

As today is my 22nd Birthday and 2nd blog anniversary. And yet again what a great year it has been, there’s so many great things I’ve done and so many new people I’ve met, it’s unbelievable. So for this blog post I thought I would provide you with some blog post links and photo links to some of my most memorable moments while being 21 years old.

To start off here’s a list of various things I’ve managed to accomplish while being 21 as well as some of thoses events and meet ups I’ve been too within the past year:

• East Kent Gazette: Darren’s A Techno Pioneer!
• Microsoft Visual Studio Island Challenge
• Second Microsoft Student Partners Event – London 2007
• Microsoft Designertopia 2007
• Yesterdays UK Developer Launch of Windows Vista and Office 2007
• Yesterday’s UK EVO Launch was great!
• Hugh Macleod’s tour of Saville Row London
• The Robert Scoble Pissed as Newts London Pub Crawl Tour
• Christmas BritBlog Blogmeet 2006
• My 1000 Blog Post!
• Back from my first ever Microsoft Student Partner (MSP) Event!
• Accepted for Microsoft Student Partner Programme 2006/2007
• I’m a Windows Live Sessions Fans Competition Winner!
• Second Blogger/Web2.0 Mixer Redux!
• First Ever Windows Live Butterfly Meet Up in London

Next up is some of my most commented posts:

• The MSN Conspiracy game
• VTunnel is here to protect your anonymity online!
• Can you solve the Kitty Caper mystery?
• Get your Windows Live Mail Desktop Beta Invites here!
• Sonic Heroes for PC
• Get your Windows Vista Beta 2 keys early!
• Windows Live Messenger 8 Beta Invites
• An Instant Message chat with nataLie the Messenger Bot!
• Windows Live Insider Club USB Memory Stick
• The Llama Song Competition

And finally here’s a list of all my Flickr Sets to date:

West Malling 81 photos	Holly’s Birthday Party: 7th April 2007 151 photos
Bowling in Chatham: 5th of April 2007 56 photos	Fun in London: 4th of April 2007 70 photos
KITC visit to PC Pro Offices 57 photos	Chinese New Year 2007 and Second MSP… 215 photos
Designertopia 2007 138 photos	UK Developer Launch of Windows Vista and… 57 photos
MS UK EVO Launch + Night out in reading 64 photos	Second BritBlog Meetup! 46 photos
The Robert Scoble Pissed as Newts London… 217 photos	Second Blogger/Web2.0 Mixer Redux 50 photos
Flying over Kent September 2006 113 photos	Windows Live Butterfly Meetup 35 photos
Windows Live Dinner UK 16 photos	London 21 january 2006 6 photos

But hey don’t go yet, I would just like to say a big thanks to all my family, friends and work colleges, you’re a great bunch, thanks a million, I love you all, you’re the best!

1. Laurent says:

   June 11, 2007 at 2:22 pm

   Happy birthday Darren!! What are you going to do today?
   And.. what are you up to these days? Do you have exams too ? Well I do.. hehe

   Much love ,
   Laurent
2. the andyman says:

   June 11, 2007 at 3:19 pm

   Happy Birthday Darren

   Keep up the good blogging and all the best for the future!
3. deborah says:

   June 11, 2007 at 9:01 pm

   Thank you for stopping by my blog to wish me a happy birthday! I hope you have a great one, too. We have 8 hours left to rock.
4. Robert Gale says:

   June 11, 2007 at 9:47 pm

   Happy birthday! And happy blog birthday!