Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

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HelpSpot a pretty cool web based help desk

I’ve been testing out HelpSpot for a some hours now as part of an assignment on Help Desks I have to do for college and I must say I’m pretty impressed with HelpSpot even if I did encounter some problems when installing it, at first it wouldn’t let me install in on my home PC which is running WAMP. And

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What does Bacchanalia mean?

Ok so I was in London today and we went past this Bar called Bacchanalia on Bedford Street and my Dad said to me what does Bacchanalia mean, he thought I would know because it sounded Spanish I of course didn’t know what it meant because I knew it wasn’t Spanish but probably Italian, anyway once I got home we

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Help us at Sony to help you by completing this survey!

Today I got an email from Sony with the following subject “Help us at Sony to help you” ok I thought, let me see what it says, it said the following: Dear Mr. Straight, Thank you for registering your new Sony Digital Still Camera. We hope you are pleased with your experience of Sony so far. As we value our

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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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Windows Live Developer Center

Just heard about a Windows Live Developer Center through the MSND Biweekly Newsletter: Welcome to the Windows Live Developer Center Your online world gets better when everything works simply and effortlessly together. That’s the basic idea behind Windows Live. So the things you care about your friends, the latest information, your e-mails, powerful search, your PC files, everything come together in one

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In what language do deaf people think?

I’ve always thought about this my self so when I saw this story on Digg this morning I just had to read it: Dear Cecil: In what language do deaf people think? I think in English, because that’s what I speak. But since deaf people cannot hear, they can’t learn how to speak a language. Nevertheless, they must think in

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Real Life Simpsons Intro

Just watched this real life Simpsons intro video and I must say it’s pretty well done!  MAKERS of the hit cartoon The Simpsons have filmed the show’s opening titles using real actors. In the hit viral going around the world we get to see what Bart, Homer, Marg, Lisa and Maggie would look like if they were humans. The clip