Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

September 2006 Aerial photographs of Kent

If you haven’t done so already, you might want to check out my latest Flickr Photos as I’ve now finally finished uploading some 113 photos from my afternoon/evening out with my family on the 9th of September 2006 on which my dad flew us from headcorn aerodrome over some surrounding areas of Kent, which is the county I live in

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Second day back at college for pre-term 2006

Well today was yet another interesting day because not only did we get to meet one of our other new tutors but me and some friends also went to check out some of the new buildings on campus which gave me the perfect opportunity to take some photos with my Smartphone. Here’s some of them. Want more? Check out My

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First Ever Windows Live Butterfly Meet Up in London

Windows Live Butterfly Meet Up I hear you say, yes that’s correct, me and Eric Cheung had organised a Windows Live Butterfly Meet Up in london for last Thursday the 3rd of August 2006 at 10:30am at London Bridge Station, and man what a great time we had, let me tell you what happened: Well I woke up at around 7:30am

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Day out at Bodies The Exhibition and The London Dungeons

Man was it hot up in London today or what, especially at The London Dungeons. My first stop in London was Bodies The Exhibition an Exhibition very like Body Worlds in which human bodies have been preserved in their flesh to be shown off to us the public so we can see what are bodies are really made of and

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Just upgraded my Free Flickr Account to a Pro Flickr Account

Today I thought I would treat myself to something special, especially after all that running I did yesterday plus taking photographs with my digital camera, and well what better thing to buy than a Pro Flickr Account, here’s what I get with my new Pro Flickr Account: 2 GB monthly upload limit Unlimited storage Unlimited bandwidth Unlimited photosets Permanent archiving of high-resolution

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A Photo of some of my old pc stuff that lays in my cupboard!

This afternoon I was looking on my MS Discussion forums and came across the following post by mondine: I guess one of these days, I’m going to have to upgrade from Win98. I’ll probably get XP, about the time they’re ready to replace Vista. And well just before reading that post I had just been sorting out some of my old PC stuff

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Add photos to your site or blog with Flickr Photo Album Maker

Flickr is a wonderful web service with an opened API. This album maker can help you to build an album and slideshow with your favorite photos. It can output HTML code for you to embed to your blog or homepage with fully style controls by yourself.       Flickr Album Maker

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Sony Cyber-shot DSC-P200 7.2 Mega Pixel Digital Camera

Today I once again have received something special in the post this time it was my Sony Cyber-shot DSC-P200 7.2 Mega Pixel Digital Camera The pack was purchased from pixmania and included the following: Cyber-shot DSC-P200 Silver Memory Stick PRO 1 GB Compatible battery NP FR1 PIX compact black case 11 x 3.5 x 8cm I’ve taken some night time