Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

Black Mesa Source A Half-Life 2 Modification

Black Mesa Source is a Half-Life 2 Modification which is a replica of the original Half-Life but made using the Half-Life 2 Source engine along with New sounds, weapon models, character models, enemy models, textures, and maps all rebuilt from the ground up. It’s not yet out but the screenshots are pretty amazing, check it out! Black Mesa Source

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Sign up for TechNet Beta Central

Microsoft TechNet Beta Central has opened a Pre-registration portal for the Public Beta releases of Windows Vista, Office 2007, and Exchange Server 12. So if you’re interested in trying (and learning more about) Windows Vista, the 2007 Microsoft Office release, Exchange “12,” and other upcoming beta software titles, you’ll definitely want to sign up for “TechNet Beta Central.” With it

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Finished transferring/updating all the old images on my blog.

Following my “Hosting blog post images on my site once again!” post from last month I have now finished transferring/updating all the old images on this blog to better quality ones which are also hosted on this site instead of using services like ImageShack that way I will always have my images with me and wont have to worry about ImageShack

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Back up my Blog

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ExtremeMaps.net is now back in my possession!

Well it took me a while, longer than it should have, but I’ve finally got back in my possession my Extreme Maps domain name (extrememaps.net) after Michael Walmsley from Leigh of Lancashire in England who started up a web hosting company called webmanage and then oversubscribed his reseller account to too many people causing him to be shut down by

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Blog upgraded to WordPress 2.0.2

Just thought I would let you all know that I’ve now upgraded my Blog to WordPress 2.0.2 after a security issue was found: An important security issue has been brought to the attention of the WordPress team and we have worked diligently to bring you a new stable release that addresses it. Our latest version 2.0.2 contains several bugfixes and security fixes.

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Competition to develop a Shop/Cash Mod for Invision Power Board v2.1.5

About half an hour ago or so I posted the following post on the Invisionize Forum’s to see if I can finaly get the Mod I need for MS Discussion, some people might thing I shouldent do what I’m doing right now, but let me tell you this I’m doing this for the whole community of Invision and my Microsoft Discussion forums for

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Installed Invision Community Blog on MS Discussion

A couple of hours ago I installed Invision Community Blog on my Microsoft Discussion Forums (MS Discussion), I’m hoping that by doing this we can attract even more visitors to the site especially with all the features the blog system has to offer: Invision Community Blog is a plugin for Invision Power Board. It uses the same skin, member, language,