Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

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O2 Xda Orbit 2 Review

Last month I was contacted by Steve Cater who works at vccp as part of O2’s Marketing Team. He asked me whether I would be interested in trialling one of O2’s new phones in a seeding program, similar to that of the O2 cocoon seeding program which gave developers and technology lovers a chance to trial the phone. The idea sounded

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Total Lunar Eclipse obscured by cloud and fog!

Anyone catch last night’s Total Lunar Eclipse? I went into the countryside late last night/early morning to see if I could catch a glimpse of the eclipse, but unfortunately due too heavy cloud cover and heavy fog I didn’t get to see much. Not to worry though, I had a nice drive in the foggy countryside and found some great

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Microsoft Responds to Yahoo! Announcement

Microsoft today issued the following statement in response to the announcement by Yahoo! Inc. that its Board of Directors has rejected Microsoft’s previously announced proposal to acquire Yahoo! It is unfortunate that Yahoo! has not embraced our full and fair proposal to combine our companies. Based on conversations with stakeholders of both companies, we are confident that moving forward promptly

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Yahoo rejects Microsoft’s proposal

As it was thought would happen, Yahoo has rejected Microsoft proposal to buy Yahoo! SUNNYVALE, Calif., Feb 11, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet company, today said the Yahoo! Board of Directors has carefully reviewed Microsoft’s unsolicited proposal with Yahoo!’s management team and financial and legal advisors and has unanimously concluded that the proposal is

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Yahoo Board to Reject Microsoft Bid

The Wall Street Journal has news that a person familiar with the Microsoft bid of Yahoo knows that Yahoo Inc.’s board plans to reject Microsofts unsolicited $44.6 billion offer to acquire the Web giant. After a series of meetings over the past week, Yahoo’s board determined that the $31 per share offer “massively undervalues” Yahoo, the person said. It also doesn’t

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Large Hadron Collider is answer to Time Travel?

The Large Hadron Collider – the most powerful atom-smasher ever built – will be switched on in May 2008, and particle physics will hit pay-dirt. However a pair of Russian mathematicians (Irina Aref’eva and Igor Volovich) have are stating that the LHC might just turn out to be the world’s first time machine. It is a highly speculative claim, that’s for sure.

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Total Lunar Eclipse 20th/21st February 2008

Just a heads up that a total eclipse of the Moon will be occuring during the night of Wednesday/Thrusday the 20th/21st February 2008. The entire event will be visible from South America and most of North America (on February 20th) as well as Western Europe, Africa, and western Asia (on February 21st). During a total lunar eclipse, the Moon’s disk can take on a

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Sorry to disappoint you but this is not an adult site!

So I got the following email below the other day and it sure is making me wonder how my website or blog could be classified as an adult site when I don’t even talk on the subject, did make me check out my keyword statistics though, it’s funny too see what adult terms people had used to find my blog,

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Top 10 Search Keyphrases for January 2008

2081 different keyphrases were used to find my site in January 2008, here are the top 10 with the amount of times they were used plus their overall usage percentage. 2081 different keyphrases Search Percent vtunnel 2016 22.5 % sites like vtunnel 434 4.8 % v tunnel 355 3.9 % planets solar system 342 3.8 % windows 237 2.6 % vtunnel myspace

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Microsoft Proposes Acquisition of Yahoo! for $31 per Share

Microsoft have announced that it has made a proposal to Yahoo! Inc. Board of Directors to acquire all the outstanding shares of Yahoo! common stock for per share consideration of $31 representing a total equity value of approximately $44.6 billion. Microsoft’s proposal would allow the Yahoo! shareholders to elect to receive cash or a fixed number of shares of Microsoft common