Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

How was Christmas 2006?

So hey I haven’t posted here for a little while, what’s everyone been up to over the Holiday Season? I myself have been pretty busy studying and working! Though I have had some days off to enjoy myself. Anybody got anything planned for the New Years, I myself don’t have anything planned this year as I’ve got to pick my parents up from the

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Five Things You Proabably Didn’t Know About Me!

So hey I’ve just been tagged by Miel to tell you all five things about me you probably didn’t know. And though Miel couldn’t decide who to tag so he asked in his post who would like to be tagged, I would just like to say thanks for tagging me as it gave something to think about! Anyhow at first I

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Microsoft Academy Marketing or Technical Programme?

So as most of you probably already know by now, when I graduate from the University of Kent in June 2007 with my BSc Honours Degree in Information Technology, I want to work for Microsoft, more specifically in either the MSN or Windows Live Division! Microsoft is a company that I’ve always wanted to work for because not only are

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Digg post: PostgreSQL or MySQL?

I was just checking Digg.com and noticed on the frontpage with 390 Diggs was a post titled “PostgreSQL or MySQL?” and thought to myself wow how freaky would it be if it happened to point to the exact same link I and 4 others had been looking at the other week while we were doing some research for our University of Kent Final

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UK Developer Launch of Windows Vista and Microsoft Office 2007

So on tuesday I visited Microsoft’s Technet Launch for IT Professionals of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Windows Vista and the 2007 Microsoft Office System (aka the EVO Launch). And well now on the 19th of January 2007 I’ll be visiting Reading once again, this time for the Microsft’s MSDN Launch for Devolpers of Windows Vista and Office 2007. And with

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Yesterday’s UK EVO Launch was great!

Yesterday myself and three others from the University of Kent headed down to Reading for Microsoft’s Technet UK Ready for a New Day: Launch of Microsoft Exchange Server, Windows Vista and 2007 Microsoft Office System (aka the EVO Launch). And well we just want to say that we thought it was brilliant! So well done to everybody who helped orgainse it, you done a

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Christmas BritBlog Blogmeet 2006

Well I went to the Christmas BritBlog blogmeet in London last night with Robert Gale and well what can I say it turned out to be pretty good, there were around 15 people at one point! 🙂 Here’s a list of attendees with the corresponding links to their blogs, sorry if I misspelled any names, the list isn’t in its best

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Registration full for Microsoft’s UK launch of Windows Vista

Registration for Microsoft’s UK Ready for a New Day Event which will see the launch of Microsoft Exchange Server, 2007 Microsoft Office System and Windows Vista is now full and all current registrations will be put on the wating list, so I hope you’ve registerd in time! 🙂 I myself will be going as a Microsoft Student Partner Representaive for the

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The Robert Scoble Pissed as Newts London Pub Crawl Tour

Wow did I have a great time or what on The Robert Scoble Pissed as Newts London Pub Crawl Tour. Not only did I get to visit like five to six london pubs as well as the Internet People Dinner and Firefox 2 Party, but I also got to meet loads of cool people! Here’s a short list of some of them: Robert Scoble

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Interview with Kent IT Clinic (KITC) Next Week!

Looks like next week I’ll be having an Interview with Kent IT Clinic Co-ordinator David Soud as next term at the University of Kent at Medway one of the modules I’ll be taking is IT Consultancy Practice which involves working with The Kent IT Clinic (KITC), which provides consultancy, computer systems support and software development services to small and micro-enterprises in