Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

Guess Who’s a Windows Live Butterfly Expert Now!

That’s right it’s yours truly along with quite a few others that were invited last night via email to join the Windows Live Butterfly Program. Ever since the first day I heard about what MSN Butterflies were, I’ve been trying my hardest to get to the status of one because I have always believed that if you try your hardest

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First Internerd of the Month at The Beta Tester

The Other Day on my Birthday I was contated by Joel Monegro from a new Beta Tester Blog asking me if I could help out with the reviews on the site, now normally I would have said yes as I’m always up for helping out new sites but unfortunelty this time I had to say no as I’m quite busy with all my exams coming up. After

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My 21st Birthday and First Blog Anniversary!

Hey and welcome to my 21st Birthday party, that’s right today I’m 21 years old, and it’s not just my birthday that I’m celebrating as I’m also celebrating the creation of this website and blog, as it was exactly a year ago today on my 20th Birthday that I decided to start this website and blog. And wow what a

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My Information Technology Degree Modules for next year!

Finally some news on what Modules I will be taking or can take next year for my last year on my Degree in Information Technology with the University of Kent have finally emerged from a meeting held yesterday morning with us students. The mandatory and optional modules are as follows: Preterm Foundations of Information Technology and Computing Autumn term Computing

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CafeMSN UK – April 2006

Hurray goes to me for once again winning a £10 Gift Certificate for Amazon UK from CafeMSN UK, thanks CafeMSN I think you are doing a great job of getting people to participate in the discussions on the Buddy Program at CafeMSN by rewarding them with prizes. My Winning so far: April 2006 Prize winner #5 £ 10 shopping voucher winner

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Windows Live Session 2: Video

Following my recent post yesterday about my Windows Live Session 2 Video Interview with Phil Holden the Director of Windows Live, Romain from heaven has now let us all know that the video of the Second Windows Live Session in London is now up for download. So go ahead and check it out, it’s great! 😀 People interviewed on the video:

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Windows Live Session 2: Video Interview with Phil Holden

Great news, my Windows Live Session 2 Video Interview with Phil Holden the Director of Windows Live is now up. So I would like to say a big thank you to Phil, Romain, Nicolas and the rest of the guys at Microsoft and Heaven who made this possible as it really was a great experience for me to do this interview especially

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Naked Conversations by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel

Just the other day I finished reading “Naked Conversations: How Blogs are Changing the way Businesses Talk with Customers” by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel. And I would like to compliment them both for writing such a great book. I haven’t been properly blogging for very long now and this blog will only be a year old on the 11th of