Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

Website Validation and Monitoring with SEVENtwentyfour

Last month I was contacted by Roy at SEVENtwentyfour Inc to be told about a broken link on my Blog’s main page: http://www.darrenstraight.com/blog/index.php The problem was that somebody had used their email as their website address in the shoutbox, so the software that SEVENtwentyfour use had picked this up! They asked me if I would send feedback and if I

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My Half-Life 2 Club Website

It’s been more than two years now since I stoped updating my Half-Life 2 Club website (http://www.iespana.es/halflifeclub), and I still seem to get feeback every so often from people about it, look here’s two of the most recent ones! From: Gin comments: your information is bogus what the fuck is a arsehead and why do ppl get thrown around like

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Search Keyphrases Februaury 2006 (Top 10)

161 different keyphrases where used to find my site in Februaury 2006, here are the top 10 with the amount of time they were used and their percentage. vtunnel | 78 | 16.2 % darren straight | 25 | 5.2 % blg | 11 | 2.2 % thatvistablog | 10 | 2 % kosmix | 10 | 2 % pplparty | 10 | 2 %

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Hosting blog post images on my site once again!

Tomorrow and for the next few week’s or so I’ll be updating a whole lot of my Blog Posts with better quality Images, when I first started of this Blog I started to host all my images on my own site but then I started using ImageShack as I was worried about Bandwidth and Space. But now I’m seeing that

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What is Microsoft’s Origami Project?

Ok so the million dollar question that everybody’s been asking today is what is Microsoft’s Origami Project? And how comes I haven’t heard much about it since today? Well one of the reasons is that there hasn’t been much press release on it at all and also for the fact that the domain name http://www.origamiproject.com as only just been mentioned

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The Weather Pixie

I’ve seen quite a few people have Weather Pixies on their Blogs and well I thought id look into them and see what they are all about, their pretty interesting don’t you think! 😉 The WeatherPixie is a little graphic that shows a representation of the weather using data reported (mostly) by airports and aerodromes around the world. As the

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My Blog and Ms Discussion now on UrlyArt

Yesterday I applied for two tiles to be placed on UrlyArt so I could see if this site really would bring traffic to my sites or not and so far it hasn’t brought anybody but myself clicking the tile to make sure it works but hey the Image hasn’t been up for long so I cant really complain now can

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WordPress Plugin – Movable Anything – AJAX

I was just looking around for some interesting plugins to use on my Blog and came across a WordPress Plugin which is pretty cool because you can use it to make pretty much anything on your Blog movable with the help of AJAX, though I probably wont be using it on this Blog, it might come in handy someday or

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Google Community Redesign at Googlecommunity.net

Last night I was up quite late and was thinking to myself that maybe it’s time we started to redesign Google Community from scratch removing all unnecessary PhpBB mods that have been installed over time and are just slowing down the forums and creating more troubles for updating the forum on every new release. Randy one of the staff members