Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

22 March 2006 – MSN Hotmail Account Temporarily Unavailable

I’ve been trying to log into Windows Live Mail for a while now and all I get is the following message:  MSN Hotmail Account Temporarily Unavailable We apologize, but your account is temporarily unavailable. This delay does not affect the entire site or result from any problem specific with your account however the server that holds your account information is

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HelpSpot a pretty cool web based help desk

I’ve been testing out HelpSpot for a some hours now as part of an assignment on Help Desks I have to do for college and I must say I’m pretty impressed with HelpSpot even if I did encounter some problems when installing it, at first it wouldn’t let me install in on my home PC which is running WAMP. And

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What does Bacchanalia mean?

Ok so I was in London today and we went past this Bar called Bacchanalia on Bedford Street and my Dad said to me what does Bacchanalia mean, he thought I would know because it sounded Spanish I of course didn’t know what it meant because I knew it wasn’t Spanish but probably Italian, anyway once I got home we

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Help us at Sony to help you by completing this survey!

Today I got an email from Sony with the following subject “Help us at Sony to help you” ok I thought, let me see what it says, it said the following: Dear Mr. Straight, Thank you for registering your new Sony Digital Still Camera. We hope you are pleased with your experience of Sony so far. As we value our

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ExtremeMaps.net is now back in my possession!

Well it took me a while, longer than it should have, but I’ve finally got back in my possession my Extreme Maps domain name (extrememaps.net) after Michael Walmsley from Leigh of Lancashire in England who started up a web hosting company called webmanage and then oversubscribed his reseller account to too many people causing him to be shut down by

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The Cube / Cube 2 / Cube Zero film

Roughly 8 years ago I watched a film called the cube and loved it so much that I wanted to see it again but there were some slight problems: My parents probably wouldn’t want me to watch it again considering I must have been 13 back then, and though the age rating on it is 15 it’s pretty gory! I only got to

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Competition to develop a Shop/Cash Mod for Invision Power Board v2.1.5

About half an hour ago or so I posted the following post on the Invisionize Forum’s to see if I can finaly get the Mod I need for MS Discussion, some people might thing I shouldent do what I’m doing right now, but let me tell you this I’m doing this for the whole community of Invision and my Microsoft Discussion forums for