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ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

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Reading and Leeds Music Festival 2007 Website Update!

w00t theres been a Reading and Leeds Music Festival 2007 Update. A brand new spanking Reading and Leeds Music Festival website is being built and will be launched on Saturday the 17th of March 2007 at 7:00pm. This site will be available at the following addresses: http://www.readingfestival.com/ http://www.leedsfestival.com/ Which at this current point in time tell you that on monday the

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Reading Festival 2007 Rumours

Reading Festival 2007 is still several months away and I’m already excited, so excited that I still haven’t picked who’s going with me for free, yep you heard me right, last year I was a winner on the Microsoft Windows Live Sessions Fans Competition which gave me the chance to go with a friend (or someone very special 😉 ) to one of the various Major

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Windows Vista Remote Desktop Authentication Certificate Error

For some time now I’ve been trying to use Windows Vistas Remote Desktop Connection Application to remotely connect from one Computer with Windows Vista Ultimate installed to another Computer with Windows Vista Ultimate installed on the same local area network and workgroup. But every time I try to connect to the other PC from either the first or second PC I get the

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This Account Has Been Suspended – HostGator!

09:15am GMT (04:15am EST) Just turned my PC on and eek for some reason my domain name “darrenstraight.com” is coming up with this message: This Account Has Been Suspended Please contact the billing/support department as soon as possible. I hurry up and load my Billing Page for this domain hosted at HostGator and within minutes I find the problem, it

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Second Microsoft Student Partners Event – London 2007

Wow what a great weekend I had last week (Monday 18th – Sunday 19th February 2007), probably one of my best in London yet! Because not only was in London for the second MSP (Microsoft Student Partners) Event to take place this academic year 2006/2007 but I was also there to have the chance to celebrate the first day of the

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Microsoft Wow Search Term!

Damn do I love search term statistics of how people got to my blog or what! Just noticed that if you search for “Microsoft Wow” either with quotes or without that I rank quite high in the search engines: Position number 5 in Google: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=microsoft+wow Position number 7 in Live Search: http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=microsoft+wow Position number 10 in Yahoo Search: http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=microsoft+wow Update: Seems like my

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The Kent IT Clinic (KITC) – February 2007

Well as you may or may not know, I’m now an IT Consultant for The Kent IT Clinic (KITC) at Medway which is a University-based IT Consultancy (provided as a University Module) which aims to provide help and expertise to the small and medium enterprise. As well as providing support to small and medium companies, The Kent IT Clinic (KITC) also provides a laptor

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Microsoft Designertopia 2007

Well I’m now back home after 2 days and 1 night in London as a Microsoft Student Partner attending the Microsoft Designertopia 2007 Design Conference, and I can definitely say that I’m pretty loaded with useful information on things such as WPF and Expression Studio which as quoted by Microsoft, is a suite of tools for creative designers that gives you

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Designertopia 2007 next week!

Cool, it looks like I’m all confimed to go to Designertopia 2007 on Thursday the 1st and Friday the 2nd February at the Grosvenor Marriott Hotel in London: Dear Darren Straight, Thank you for registering to attend Microsoft designertopia 2007, taking place on Thursday 1st and Friday 2nd February at the Grosvenor Marriott Hotel, Grosvenor Square, London, W1. Included in this email