Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

That Vista Blog for WordPress 1.5.x

I have just installed the “That Vista Blog for WordPress 1.5.x” a wordpress theme by William Lay which makes your Blog look like the windows vista aero theme. But after installing it I noticed that many of you have experienced the same problem as I with the That Vista Theme for your wordpress Blog and that is that some people

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Google PageRank Update October 2005

Google has stared their Pagerank and Backlink Exports; I have archived the following results: http://www.msndiscussion.com has PageRank 0/10. http://www.darrenstraight.sizzly.com has PageRank 1/10. http://www.extrememaps.net has PageRank 2/10. http://www.darrenstraight.com has PageRank 3/10. http://www.darrenstraight.com/blog has PageRank 4/10. Check your page rank here: http://www.pagerank.net

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Removing Session ID’s from PhpBB Forums

In the past week or so I have been asking for some reviews of mine and Henrik’s Msn Discussion Forum (http://www.msndiscussion.com) the responses have been great, one of these requests was posted in the review section on PhpBBHacks, so far only one person has replied to my post, he goes by the username of “mdvaldosta”, here’s what he said: very

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Msn Discussion (msndiscussion.com)

Msn Discussion (http://www.msndiscussion.com) is now live, this is a Forum created by me Darren Straight (darrenstraight) and Henrik Valve (broken), basically Msn Discussion is a discussion forum for all discussions MSN Related and more! Check it out now; I believe this could be a very popular forum in months to come! http://www.msndiscussion.com Update: We are now know as MsDiscussion.com, come

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My website is now all ok at hosting-unlimited

Well My Website and Blog along with all my sub domains are finally back up once again after my hosting company Hosting Unlimited (hosting-unlimited.net) had server difficulties as detailed in my previous posts, which I managed to write in between them remapping the server and then taking all the sites offline to restore the most recent backups from the 4th

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Update about downtime at hosting-unlimited

Another update has just been posted a Hosting-Unlimited.net in regards with the recent downtime of sites hosted with them on their Cassandra server: ** UPDATE 14:45 hrs** Unfortunately, this has failed. Here is the course of action which is now being taken, which despite taking some time, is the quickest and safest course available 1. The primary drive is being

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My Site and Blog Downtime at hosting-unlimited

For the past 20 hours my site and all sub domains have been down along with other members hosted on the Cassandra Server (hu-cassandra.com :: 67.15.24.39) at the hosting company Hosting Unlimited (hosting-unlimited.net) Luckily enough it’s up now but many users are not happy because of the lack of communication and announcements they made on the forums of there main

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Installed AdSense-Deluxe

I’ve just installed a WordPress plugin called AdSense-Deluxe which can insert my adsense ad’s from Google into my posts, to insert the code all I do is use quicktags. Features for this plugin include: Enable Ads on Individual Posts Enable Ads on Home page Enable Ads on “pages” Enable Ads on any Archive page Globally enable/disable all ads Here’s an