Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

Windows Vista February CTP Build 5308

Windows Vista February CTP (Community Technology Preview) Build 5308 was released to testers today on the Microsoft Connect website, now I haven’t been able to test this for my self yet but hopeful will be able too soon, but for those of you who wont even get to have a go of it, I’ve included an article from PC Magazine

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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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Windows XP Expert Zone Chat Room

Earlier today I loaded up the Microsoft’s Windows XP Expert Zone Chat Room in Internet Explorer 7 as I wanted too see how well IE7 worked with it in time of response etc. Anyway it worked pretty much ok, no surprise there though after all IE7 is made by Microsoft and the Windows XP Expert Zone Chat Room is hosted

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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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62-year-old woman gives birth

A Mother of 62 years of age who was born blind from birth has recently given birth, now don’t you find this quite chilling and a little bit wrong considering the circumstances?, Yeah I’m sure she’s given birth with all her heart after all you wouldn’t give birth to a child if you didn’t think you could handle it. But

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Seventeen Minutes Interview With Bill Gates

Channel 9 has now posted another interview with bill gates, pretty interesting questions asked I must say! On Monday, we had the honor of meeting with Bill Gates to discuss MIX06, IE, DHTML, AJAX, Compatibility, Office 12, and also gain insight into where he surfs on the web. He also shares with us where and how software can make the

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UrlyArt – Photo Mosaic Images of Website Screenshots

UrlyArt is another one of them sites like the Million Dollar Homepage that I think you are going to start to love very soon, it started up today, and I’ve just bought a space on it so let’s see how much traffic it brings! But for now as your probably wondering what the heck I’m on about, read the infomation

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Guerilla Light Graffiti – LED Throwies

About LED Throwies: Developed by the Graffiti Research Lab a division of the Eyebeam R&D OpenLab, LED Throwies are an inexpensive way to add color to any ferromagnetic surface in your neighborhood. A Throwie consists of a lithium battery, a 10mm diffused LED and a rare-earth magnet taped together. Throw it up high and in quantity to impress your friends