Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

Are you coming to the Christmas BritBlog Blogmeet 2006?

By popular demand there will be a Christmas BritBlog blogmeet in London! It will be held on Saturday the 9th of December 2006 from about 2:30 PM, probably in a pub near Covent Garden. Possibly the same pub as the last London blogmeet I went to. So hey if you are interested check out BritBlog for more information.

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Anyone Interested in doing a UK Christmas Party 2006?

Anyone Interested in a UK Christmas Party 2006? 🙂 There’s no date set yet and we would need a venue, possible somewhere in London, but hey it’s just an idea! 🙂 Update (19/11/06): Checking out some sites to see what we could do: http://www.viewlondon.co.uk/index-xmas06.asp http://www.viewlondon.co.uk/details-xmas06-106.html http://www.eventwise.co.uk/asp/PartyType_002.asp http://www.venuereservations.co.uk/christmas-events.htm Any ideas peeps?

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The University of Kent at Medway Graduation Ceremony 2006

Just got back from my Foundation Degree in Information Technology Graduation Ceremony with The University of Kent at Medway (MidKent) and well what can I say. I was a little bit nervous of how it would go at first. But it turned out to be great! 😀 Now all I have to do is wait for next year for when

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ReviewMe – Get Buzz. Earn Cash.

Just signed up for ReviewMe a new site for which Advertisers can get their Web site’s products or services reviewed by related Web sites/Blogs thus benefiting from valuable exposure, feedback, and viral buzz. But of course it’s not just the Advertisers that benefit from the Reviews because Bloggers will get paid to review the services and Web sites that are of interest to them

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Blog Upgraded to WordPress 2.0.5

Wow it’s only been around 40 Minutes since wordpress 2.0.5 -Ronan has been out and I’ve already upgraded my blog to it, I’m pretty fast hey! 😉 But what’s new? Well there have been about 50 or so bugfixes, which you can review on the dev tracker here, mostly minor bug fixes around feeds, custom fields, and internationalization. So if you like the sound of what

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Wesley Rupel’s 1980s Vintage Microsoft Executive Phone

Hey peeps, I’ve managed to acquire an Early 1980s Vintage Microsoft Executive Phone which used to be owned by a guy named Wes Rupel or Wesley Rupel, who was one of 10 people that designed Microsoft Windows. Wes has over 20 years of experience in technology covering software, internet infrastructure and wireless. He has demonstrated success in growing and shaping start-up

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Back from my first ever Microsoft Student Partner (MSP) Event!

Hey everyone, as you know or may not know I’m now a UK Microsoft Student Partner (MSP) 2006/2007 and well I’ve just arrived home from Reading (UK) after spending the past two days there for my first ever Microsoft Student Partner (MSP) Events. And well what can I say, it was great, I met lots of new people, had lots

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Cool I’m an Official Blog Partner for WebProNews

Hey everyone just thought id let you all know that thanks to Chris Crum the Content Manager of WebProNews, I’m now a blog partner for them. You can see what articles of mine have been published on WebProNews by checking out my author page here! It’s nice seeing my name on a list which contains some top tech bloggers like Robert Scoble, Andy Beal, Jeremy Zawodny, Nathan Weinberg

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Accepted for Microsoft Student Partner Programme 2006/2007

Hey everyone, if you haven’t already heard, I’ve been accepted onto the Microsoft Student Partner (MSP) Programme for the term 2006/2007 so as you can imagine I’m feeling pretty happy right now, you should have seen how much I was smiling earlier today when I read the email congratulating me onto the programme! Because to be part of the Microsoft Student Partner