Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

UK launch of Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008 coming soon!

On the 19th of March 2008 both IT Professionals and Developers alike will be flocking to the ICC (The International Convention Centre) in Birmingham for the UK launch of Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008. But the question is have you registerd to attend for this exciting hereos happen {here} event? And if so which session tracks are you going

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O2 Xda Orbit 2 Review

Last month I was contacted by Steve Cater who works at vccp as part of O2’s Marketing Team. He asked me whether I would be interested in trialling one of O2’s new phones in a seeding program, similar to that of the O2 cocoon seeding program which gave developers and technology lovers a chance to trial the phone. The idea sounded

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Sean O’Connor’s Slay strategy game!

The other day I was browsing around the web as I do, when I came across an image of an old windows game I used to play some time ago (1994/1995) – it was then that I once again found out the name of it, that being “Slay” by Sean O’Connor. Happy that I had found this game again, I

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University of Kent: Tribute to David Shrimpton

It is with great sadness that the Computing Laboratory mourns the death of David Shrimpton, who died on Saturday 29 December 2007 in the Kent and Canterbury Hospital, Canterbury. David was diagnosed with cancer of the pancreas and bile duct in January 2007, and throughout his illness was remarkably positive about his condition and his circumstances, and was very much

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Happy New Year Everyone for 2008

Happy New Year Everyone! I owe it all to you out there who stop by this site to read, comment, subscribe and spread link love. As always, I’m very grateful for your support and encouragement as goodness knows how blogging can be a time-consuming and work-intensive activity. A lot of the fun I derive from it is not just from

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Review of The First Great Facebook Debate

Yesterday evening I attended The Great Facebook Debate at the BT Centre in London. That of which was being filmed live – you can watch the webcast here. The Schedule was as follows:  17:00 – 17:15 – Registration 17:15 – 18:00 – Networking 18:00 – 18:15 – Welcome from the Host, Paul Walsh. 18:15 – 18:35 – Panel Presentations (setting the scene)

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Kent IT Clinic wins Technology Enterprise award

The Kent IT Clinic (KITC) at the University of Kent has been awarded Technology Enterprise Kent’s ‘Enterprise and Training Award for excellence’ under the category of IT Support. The award, which was presented to David Soud, Co-ordinator of KITC, on 4 October, is in recognition of ‘the considerable achievement of KITC consultants in delivering the intensive assists on behalf of

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The Future of Web Apps London October 2007

Well it’s been a busy and crazy week but I’ve finally got some time to tell you all about my 3 Days in London attending The mashup* demo event and of course the awesome Future of Web Apps Conference and Expo which included the Live Filming of Episode 118 of Diggnation and the Carsonified Relaunch Party! 😀 Unfortunately I didn’t