Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

Yet Another Minecraft Server – 29th January 2011

Well my Minecraft Server “Yet Another Minecraft Server” a.k.a. YAMS only went public 4 days ago, after I did quite a lot of back work before hand on setting up a decent spawn base and well the structure builds I am seeing coming from people are already pretty good (even great) and everyone’s been really friendly so far, well except “i_am_sex”, he was just a troll. Here’s

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Yet Another Minecraft Server (YAMS) Now Public!

Calling all minecrafterians looking for public minecraft servers… My London based multiplayer Minecraft server titled “Yet Another Minecraft Server” a.k.a. YAMS is now public, so no more hiding as it’s free for anyone to join. There is currently no whitelist however due to increased popularity whitelist is sometimes on, in which case please visit the forums to get yourself whitelisted. I’m putting a lot of

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Watch Avrils Lavignes What The Hell Music Video

Avril Lavigne fans out there I’m sure you’ve seen it already but if not watch now! Some of the reaction from in the comments section on http://www.avrillavigne.com/uk/news/watch-avrils-what-hell-video-right-now Tue, 2011-01-25 11:28 — Melaniez. Why do that? Okay when avril was 16, just as she realesed let go, she said she would NEVER prance around in her knickers for money, ten year

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Goodbye Windows Live Butterfly Heaven Tagline!

Well it’s been a long time coming but it’s time to say goodbye as I have now removed my blog tagline of “Windows Live Butterfly Heaven!” and replaced it with “ICT Systems Manager by Day, Blogger by Night.” I’m not sure if I shall be keeping the new one, but the Microsoft Windows Live Butterfly program closed in June/July 2009

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Samsung Project Space Planes Finally Launch

Remember Samsung Project Space Planes back in September? Which had the idea of launching a balloon to space where there it would release lots of paper planes with Samsung SD memory cards (with your messages). If not quickly see video below! Well they have finally managed to do that, amidst awful weather, from a place called Wolfsburg in Germany! The

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SoundCloud Launches North American Presence

SoundCloud, the audio platform that enables everybody to upload, record, promote and share the sounds they create across the web, has today announced it is to extend its operations into North America with the opening of a presence in San Francisco and several planned new hires in the city within the coming months. The fast-growing company was launched in Berlin

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Review of Serif CraftArtist Gold

Hi all, it’s been a while since I’ve posted a full review of this scale, so before I begin I would like to give thanks to Clare Homer PR Manager at Serif for proving me with this opportunity. Now that’s over 😉 Here is my Review of Serif CraftArtist! 😀 First of all for those that don’t know, Serif CraftArtist