Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

Congratulations from the Buddy Program at CafeMSN – March 2006

Wooow I cant beileve it, I have yet again won a prize on the Buddy Program at CaféMSN, the last time I won on the 6th of April 2006 which was for the February 2006 prize selection were I won a £20 gift voucher, but this time I have won the grand mega prize which is a £80 online shopping gift voucher

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Just upgraded my Free Flickr Account to a Pro Flickr Account

Today I thought I would treat myself to something special, especially after all that running I did yesterday plus taking photographs with my digital camera, and well what better thing to buy than a Pro Flickr Account, here’s what I get with my new Pro Flickr Account: 2 GB monthly upload limit Unlimited storage Unlimited bandwidth Unlimited photosets Permanent archiving of high-resolution

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£13.37 as a thank you to Founding Members of Prize Fight

What another cool email from the heart of my inbox, prize fight has just credited my account with £13.37 (1337 amounts of cash) in order to say thank you for being a Founding Member of Prize Fight, I first found out about Prize Fight (win money gaming) last month when I read a review about it in the .net magazine

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Congratulations from the Buddy Program at CafeMSN

Today on the return home from work I had a great surprise awaiting for me in my email inbox, it was an email with the title “Congratulations” now normally I would just think great more spam but as I saw it was from the Buddy Program at CafeMSN, well my eyes light up with joy and I immediately opened it

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The name darren in chinese

I was looking in my website stats this morning and came across the following search term key phrase used to find my site: “the name darren in chinese” Now that’s interesting I thought to myself, somebody has actually found my site by entering the search term “the name darren in chinese” into a search engine, I wonder if I could

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ExtremeMaps.net back up and running with my brother as the new admin!

Following my recent post titled “ExtremeMaps.net is now back in my possession!” I have now given full control of the Domain name Extrememaps.net as I said I would to my brother Lewis, I have also supplied him with a year’s worth of hosting with 5000.00 MB of Disk Space and 250000.00 MB of Bandwidth so he will have some space

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A Photo of some of my old pc stuff that lays in my cupboard!

This afternoon I was looking on my MS Discussion forums and came across the following post by mondine: I guess one of these days, I’m going to have to upgrade from Win98. I’ll probably get XP, about the time they’re ready to replace Vista. And well just before reading that post I had just been sorting out some of my old PC stuff

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Uploaded some of my Technical Drawings from Bachillerato 2003

After a long wait I’ve finally decided to upload some of my Technical Drawings from my Bachillerato (sixth form) Course I did in 2003, I hope you like them because I certainly do mainly because I know I did them all on my own and also because I was top of the class in Technical Drawing! View more Technical Drawings

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egoSurf finds your blogs ranking in google

With egoSurf you can find your blogs ranking in google. “Actually it doesn’t have to be your blog, and it ain’t just google.” say’s developer Jason Hyland. What is egoSurf ? Find your place, know your place. Take a look at our about page. We’ve not got a mission statement. So, how does it work ? Simple. You enter your