Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

Avril Lavigne The Best Damn Tour 2008 London

Avril Lavignes The Best Damn Tour is coming to The O2 Arena this coming Wednesday the 4th of June. So looking forward to going along with all the other music festivals, concerts and gigs I shall be going to this year. It’s all good fun! 😀 With all this talk of music lately on my blog anyone would be thinking

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The A-Z Alphabet Search Query May 2008

Ever wonderd what website or page would be at the top of a search query list if you typed a single letter of the alphabet into a search engine? Probably not! But hey I wonderd for you, so here’s my results: Live Search (United States) A is for FunBrain.com – The Internet’s #1 Education Site for K-8 Kids and …

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Madonna The Sticky & Sweet Tour 2008 London

This September the 11th, Madonna will be performing live on stage at Wembley Stadium as part of her Madonna the Sticky & Sweet Tour 2008. I bought tickets for myself and my girlfriend to see her from the Golden Circle Standing Area, so hopefully it will be a good one. I’m just wondering is anyone else going to either the

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Join a new Windows Live user community

Just noticed this post on the Windows Live Messenger Blog: We here at Windows Live love to create software that makes keeping in touch with your personal community fun and exciting. If you love to chat on Windows Live Messenger, use Windows Live Writer to post to your Windows Live Spaces page and post photos from Windows Live Photo Gallery

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88 Days untill Reading and Leeds Festival 2008

There’s 88 Days to go until Reading and Leeds Music Festival 2008, so let’s take a quick look at the lineup so far! 🙂 Can’t wait to go! 😀 Main Stage Reading Friday Reading Saturday Reading Sunday Leeds Saturday Leeds Sunday Leeds Friday Rage Against the Machine Queens of the Stone Age The Fratellis The Enemy Biffy Clyro Serj Tankian

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Open signup for Dropbox Beta Invites

Here’s a little present for all those of you out there that like to beta test web apps and such before they come out, the link below is an open signup beta invite link for Dropbox, the online storage site which let’s you synchronise your files and folders with your desktop computer. http://www.getdropbox.com/beta/go Of course if you love Microsoft 🙂 or not 🙁 then don’t forget

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PDA’s banned at the Alton Towers Resort

The Alton Towers Resort is banning parents from using PDA’s (Personal Digital Assistant) this May half term in a bid to increase quality family time. It would appear from research revealed today that kids are fed up with their parents spending more time reading their emails than having fun with them. Brits work the longest hours in Europe*, meaning that

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Windows Media Center Fiji Beta Testing Underway!

It’s been revealed by unamed sources that Beta testing of Windows Fiji, the next version of Windows Media Center Edition, has been underway for a few weeks now. At this stage it’s not clear just how many beta testers are on the program at the current test phase and if the program will expand into a larger audience any time

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Russia Today joins the Livestation global news network

Livestation welcomes Russia Today as the latest addition to their selection of 24 hour global news channels. Russia Today is the first English language news channel to present the Russian point of view on events happening in Russia and around the globe. Graham Pitman, CEO and Director European Television Guild, who handles Russia Today distribution commented, “We joined Livestation as