Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

Tom Reynolds a BritBlog Member appears on BBC News Website

I was just this minute on the BBC News website when I read the following headline title “Emergency calls – Drunks, blood and hoaxes. The view from inside the ambulance” which reminded me of a so called Tom Reynolds a blogger I meet at the First BritBlog BlogMeetup in London so I clicked the article link to see what it was all about and wow

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Hosting-Unlimited Site Hacked!

Wow I just got two vBulletin forum message emails from admin@hosting-unlimited.net confirming that Hosting-Unlimted (where my site/blog used to be hosted) has now been hacked, and though lucky enough all the sites are hosted in a diffrent location than that of the main Hosting-Unlimted Site and forum it’s just to early to tell what the damage is and how far this hacker can go! Here’s

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First Ever Windows Live Butterfly Meet Up in London

Windows Live Butterfly Meet Up I hear you say, yes that’s correct, me and Eric Cheung had organised a Windows Live Butterfly Meet Up in london for last Thursday the 3rd of August 2006 at 10:30am at London Bridge Station, and man what a great time we had, let me tell you what happened: Well I woke up at around 7:30am

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Day out at Bodies The Exhibition and The London Dungeons

Man was it hot up in London today or what, especially at The London Dungeons. My first stop in London was Bodies The Exhibition an Exhibition very like Body Worlds in which human bodies have been preserved in their flesh to be shown off to us the public so we can see what are bodies are really made of and

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My Foundation Degree in Information Technology Results!

Hurray I have now got the results for my academic year of 2005/2006 on the Foundation Degree in Information Technology, I had already got the results for last year’s academic year of 2004/2005 so to finally get my results for this final academic year of 2005/2006 is great news, well at least for me anyway. The results are as follows:

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Back home from my summer 2006 trip to Alton Towers

Well what a great past two days it has been at Alton Towers with some friends, it would have been near enough perfect if it hadn’t been for some unfortunate things that happened like the dying of my digital camera, the loosening of the screw on my glasses or even the technically difficulties with the rides. The journey to Alton Towers began

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One year after the 7th of July 2006 London bombings

The UK has been paying tribute to the victims of the 7 July London attacks, one year after suicide bombers killed 52 people and injured nearly 800. But where were you that day the 7th of July 2005 last year? I for one was actually in London that day, but luckily enough I was somewhat far from where it happened,

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Windows Live Insider Club USB Memory Stick

Remember the Windows Live Insider Club promotion site for the UK? That offerd 50.000 sets of free Windows Live contact cards, 3000 USB memory sticks (200 available per week), tickets to a World Cup Football screening in London (including dinner & disco afterwards) and VIP tickets for the Wimbledon finals (including champagne & strawberries). Well I just got my Windows

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Philips VOIP 433 Dual Phone for Windows Live Messenger

The Philips VOIP 433 Dual Phone for Windows Live Messenger that I won at the second Windows Live Session last month was delivered today, and I have to agree with what Robert Gale has already said about it in a blog post he made a couple of days ago, that being that it’s really good. It’s easy to install and ties