Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

London under water by 2100 as Antarctica crumbles into the sea

I was just reading this Article By Mark Henderson on the Times Online website about how dozens of the world’s cities, including London and New York, could be flooded by the end of the century, as global warming could get worse than what they first thought, here’s a copy of the article. DOZENS of the world’s cities, including London and

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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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22 March 2006 – MSN Hotmail Account Temporarily Unavailable

I’ve been trying to log into Windows Live Mail for a while now and all I get is the following message:  MSN Hotmail Account Temporarily Unavailable We apologize, but your account is temporarily unavailable. This delay does not affect the entire site or result from any problem specific with your account however the server that holds your account information is

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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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March 2006 BCS Interview with Sir Tim Berners-Lee

I saw this article first in the March 2006 issue of the BCS ITNOW and it’s now online for those of you who don’t read ITNOW! Looking back on 15 years or so of development of the Web is there anything you would do differently given the chance? I would have skipped on the double slash – there’s no need for

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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