Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

Is it already time to remove the lush theme from my blog?

I can’t believe I’m asking my self the question “Is it already time to remove the lush theme from my blog?” after only installing it exactly a week ago, but the truth is that soon I may just have to remove it. But why? Well because for a number of reasons, sure the features it has are great and I

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59th position on the Blog Top Sites technology category!

Today I noticed that my blog has elevated it’s self above other blogs to position it’s self in the 59th position of the Blog Top Sites technology category, I don’t know how this can be and I’m not sure if it’s an error or not but I must say it’s pretty cool being in 59th position especially as it means

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Search Keyphrases April 2006 (Top 10)

159 different keyphrases where used to find my site in April 2006, here are the top 10 with the amount of time they were used and their percentage. vtunnel | 109 | 27.5 % vtunell | 25 | 6.3 % febctp_5308_32bit_main_staged_dvd.iso | 11 | 2.7 % flashchat | 9 | 2.2 % windows vista | 9 | 2.2 % darren straight |

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Installed Lush Theme for WordPress

I was going to wait until the anniversary of my blog which is also my birthday, to change to another wordpress theme for my blog but I just found out that the blog theme Lush for Typo has now been ported to wordpress so I guess it was something I couldn’t resist so I installed it and I must say

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What Do You Do When Someone Steals Your Content

Would you like to learn what you can do to protect your rights to original content owned and posted by you on your own blog, if so then I recommend you take a look at an excellent guide titled “What Do You Do When Someone Steals Your Content” written by Lorelle VanFossen. Just because information is on the Internet does

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Search Keyphrases March 2006 (Top 10)

216 different keyphrases where used to find my site in March 2006, here are the top 10 with the amount of time they were used and their percentage. vtunnel | 40 | 9 % flashchat | 20 | 4.5 % society kindly interest nature | 17 | 3.8 % darren straight | 15 | 3.4 % blg | 10 | 2.2 % hotmail

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ExtremeMaps.net back up and running with my brother as the new admin!

Following my recent post titled “ExtremeMaps.net is now back in my possession!” I have now given full control of the Domain name Extrememaps.net as I said I would to my brother Lewis, I have also supplied him with a year’s worth of hosting with 5000.00 MB of Disk Space and 250000.00 MB of Bandwidth so he will have some space

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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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egoSurf finds your blogs ranking in google

With egoSurf you can find your blogs ranking in google. “Actually it doesn’t have to be your blog, and it ain’t just google.” say’s developer Jason Hyland. What is egoSurf ? Find your place, know your place. Take a look at our about page. We’ve not got a mission statement. So, how does it work ? Simple. You enter your