Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

Fake Microsoft Cumulative Patch: W32.Gibe@mm virus

I had a couple of these fake Microsoft Cumulative Patch emails last month but I now seem to be receiving a bit more than usual, so please beware yourselves of them because they are NOT from Microsoft but from somebody mass-mailing various people with theses emails which contain the W32.Gibe@mm worm as an attachment which should NOT be opened! The

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Windows Live Image Search Beta

Ok let’s forget about the fancy looks and gadgets of Windows Live Image Search Beta for a minute and let’s get straight down to what really matters, that being adequate image search results! Ok let’s try some image search queries, first with the normal MSN Image search: http://search.msn.com/images/results.aspx?q=medway+building 34 results found containing medway building 12 images were of the medway

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Congratulations from the Buddy Program at CafeMSN

Today on the return home from work I had a great surprise awaiting for me in my email inbox, it was an email with the title “Congratulations” now normally I would just think great more spam but as I saw it was from the Buddy Program at CafeMSN, well my eyes light up with joy and I immediately opened it

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We can rebuild him. We have the technology. Almost!

I find articles like this very interesting especially when they talk about The Six Million Dollar Man, ok not entirely but I do like articles which talk about fiction becoming reality, and this is one of them that as caught my eye today because it’s definitely as truth in it. Three decades after the hit television programme The Six Million

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Made in Express Contest 2006

I was just reading the latest MSDN Flash Newsletter and thought that some of you might be interested in signing up to the Made in Express Contest. Where to start? Or, more correctly, how to start? That’s the challenge writing this piece. It’s a nice, sunny (by Seattle standards) day out – and my mind doesn’t want to focus on work. OK,

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The name darren in chinese

I was looking in my website stats this morning and came across the following search term key phrase used to find my site: “the name darren in chinese” Now that’s interesting I thought to myself, somebody has actually found my site by entering the search term “the name darren in chinese” into a search engine, I wonder if I could

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10 Minutes With Microsoft’s Desmond Nair

In an interview titled: “10 Minutes With Microsoft’s Desmond Nair”, blogged by Angelo Embuldeniya, Firefox is said to be loosing it’s community, Vista is coming to home users in January 2006 and MS is not going Open Source! Angelo: Why did MS introduce tabbed browsing in Internet Explorer 7 (IE7)? Had Firefox anything to do with it? Desmond: We introduced

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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