Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

BCS Event – 28 July 2006 – Digital Forensics in Law Enforcement

Now I don’t normally blog about what events the BCS (British computer society) is holding as everybody else who probably already wants to attend BCS Events has probably already set themselves on the mailing list, but as this event looks quite interesting and  Non BCS members are welcome to attend, I thought I might as well blog about it! Friday 28th

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Amazon now sells groceries with Amazon Grocery Beta

Hey check out Amazon’s New Grocery Beta Stocked with more than 10,000 non-perishable items–and growing every day All items are eligible for free Super Saver Shipping and Amazon Prime Great everyday prices plus special offers on your favorite brands It’s just a they don’t currently offer perishable items such as milk, fresh meat, or peaches as I was thinking of

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Skype 2.5 out of beta!

What’s new in Skype 2.5? Easier to call ordinary phones Send SMS messages View and call Outlook contacts directly Buy Skype credit more easily Features Make free calls to anyone else on Skype, anywhere in the world See who you are talking to with free video calls Chat with up to 100 people in group chats Conference call with up

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Say Hello to the all New Genpets from Bio Genica!

I think I remember seing something about Genpets posted ages ago on some forum, but as I was just reminded about it after seeing it posted on Miel’s Blog I thought I might as well post it here as well. Say Hello to the all New Genpets from Bio.Genica! The Genpets are Pre-Packaged, Bioengineered pets implemented today! That’s right, Genpets are not toys or robots.

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CGI Animated Meteorite Collision Simulation Video

Check out this impresive CGI-animated meteorite collision simulation video, it’s pretty cool but scary if you ask me. The diameter of the meteorite is slightly bigger than the breadth of Honshu Japan. The collision point is located at the 3,000km south from Japan in the ocean. The velocity of the meteorite is 70,000km/h Via: TecheBlog | A Welsh View

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Is 06/06/06 anything special?

Is today (06/06/06/) set to be once again just a normal day, or will something else happen. Well the people at St. Louis Post-Dispatchre have posted an article on what they think today means, so go ahead and check it out. Revelation’s author is having a big laugh. Sure, his book of the Bible is filled with dragons, locusts, plagues, oceans

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Planet Child Launched!

David Dehghan has now launced Planet Child, but what is it? PlanetChild is an international non profit organization aimed at improving teaching methods and practices in developing countries and at making them more effective. It is very much influenced by http://path.org/. PATH develops programs that have huge return on investment in the heath care sector. For example they have invented

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Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs Exhibition

The Tutankhamun Exhibition (Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs) is coming soon to London in 2007 at the 02, formerly known as the Millennium Dome. So if you haven’t done already I would like to highly recommend to you that you sign up and print a ticketing certificate to guarantee your tickets for The King Tutankhamun and the

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Birthday Calculator gives you interesting facts!

Check out this Birthday Calculator, it certainly does give you some interesting facts about your birthday, not all useful though. 😉 Here’s some information I got when I entered my birth date, if you’re brave enough why don’t you post yours here as well in the comments. You entered: 6/11/1985 Your date of conception was on or about 18 September 1984

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World66: the travel guide YOU write

World66 is an open content travel guide, where people from all over the planet can write about the places they love, the hotels they stayed in and the restaurants that have eaten. And it’s not just this you can do, World66 also has some fancy tools that they have provided which they hope will make world66 the best travel guide on the planet.