Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

Welcome to the MSN Beta Program!

Just got this email, I have a feeling it might be Windows Live Messenger, whatever it is I cant wait! 😀 Thanks for signing up. We understand how excited you are to get started, and we want to get going, too. We’re working as fast as we can to figure out the best way for us to get your feedback.

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Half-Life 2: Signed Combine Wall Lithograph *SOLD OUT*

That’s right all Half-Life 2: Signed Combine Wall Lithograph are officially “SOLD OUT” * Limited edition of Nos. 2-99 * Signed and hand numbered by Viktor Antonov * Embossed with lambda seal * Certificate of authenticity signed by Gabe Newell So I’m very glad I ordered mine, cant wait to get it and hang it up on a frame, I

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New Products in The Valve Store!

Check this steam update out! The valve store now has more products than ever and you can actually use PayPal to pay for them with! The releases we have coming over the next few weeks are piling up, which means that over the next month we’re going to be very busy but the communty is going to get a lot

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Honorary degree for Kelly Holmes

This is pretty cool as because I was at college today and actually got to see Kelly Holmes arrive for here tour of our new college, there was a lot of press around and because our tutor had to go to the ceremony at Rochester Cathedral where Kelly Holmes would receive her honours degree we didn’t have classes in the

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How To Disappear From Society

Disappearing from society is becoming harder by every day that passes but there is still some hope that you can get away and not be noticed it all depends on what you do, here’s an extract of a really good article I found on disappearing from society in America. Vanishing Point: How to disappear in America without a trace. There

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Msn Mobile Beta Cell Mate Gift

Today in the UK post I finally received my Msn Mobile Beta Cell Mate Gift which was sent to us Beta testers who participated in the Msn Mobile Beta, it’s really cool and it fits perfectly in my car, now things like this is why I love Microsoft and Msn because the users get something back for all their hard

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Msn Discussion is now Ms Discussion

That’s right yesterday mine and Henriks recently created Msn Discussion site went through some major changes the first one being a change of domain name from MsnDiscussion.com to MsDiscussion.com and the second being an upgrade from PhpBB 2.0.18 to IPB 2.1.3 we have made both of these changes because of what changes Ms (Microsoft) has done recently to their product

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iAlmond – Towards the World!

I’ve once again been invited to another global community site were each user has their own hompage where the can share with trusted people their photos and storys, so why not sign up now and give it a go! iAlmond is the official name of this website, which means ¡°Towards the World¡± in Esperanto. At iAlmond, each member updates photos

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Blog comment spam attacks!

Yep that’s right Blog comment spam attacks, I cam in from work yesterday and found that I had 50 new Blog comments to moderate, this is a huge amount of comments to moderate considering I normally only get a couple a day, anyway I marked them all as spam as I noticed that all the comments were linking to various

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Multiply – You Have Been Invited!

I have just been invited by a friend to test a new social networking site out called Multiply, just looking at it now, its not that bad but I’ll have too look around more to get the full feeling of what it has. What it is Multiply is a web site that makes it easy to share photos, blogs, videos,