Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

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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Top 10 Search Keyphrases for September 2006

1433 different keyphrases were used to find my site in September 2006, here are the top 10 with the amount of time they were used and their percentage. vtunnel | 1787 | 33.2 % vtunnel com sites | 227 | 4.2 % lvcp | 142 | 2.6 % sites like vtunnel | 135 | 2.5 % vtunnel myspace | 113 |

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Last year studying for a Bcs Honours Degree in IT

Well it looks like my summer holidays have unfortunately come to an end, as tomorrow I will be setting back off to college with the University of Kent at Medway to study for my final year on a Bcs Honours Degree in Information Technology. And well I’m just looking over what I’m going to have to study and what I’m

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Top 10 Search Keyphrases for August 2006

1302 different keyphrases where used to find my site in July 2006, here are the top 10 with the amount of time they were used and their percentage. vtunnel | 454 | 11.8 % msn conspiracy game | 113 | 2.9 % sorry we are unable to complete your task at this time. the windows live spaces service is experiencing difficulties. please

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Askimet was down which explains recent spam posts!

So according to the Askimet Blog, Askimet the wordpress spam stopper was down, guess that explains why I was receiving lots of spam comments on my blog, glad the problems fixed now though. The stats code introduced yesterday had a bug which only triggered about 24 hours after it had launched. It kicked in for different blogs at different times,

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Blog updated to Lush 0.99.8

Great news I’ve now updated my wordpress blog theme from Lush 0.99.7 to Lush 0.99.8 along with other minor bug fixes and tweaks, so you should now hopefully see some improvements, including: New header, thanks to Eric Cheung for suggesting a lighter colour for the tagline. Small colour changes in the sidebar, so your eyes rest easier. Small speed improvements,

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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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Transferred from Hosting-Unlimited to HostGator

Well it’s been pretty quite on my Blog lately and that’s because I had been transferring all my files and databases from Hosting-Unlimited to HostGator because though I have been with Hosting-Unlimited for 420 days now and I’m still quite happy to host small test sites with them that are not so important, I had been having lots of downtime

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Top 10 Search Keyphrases for July 2006

1315  different keyphrases where used to find my site in July 2006, here are the top 10 with the amount of time they were used and their percentage.  vtunnel | 521 | 8.6 % msn conspiracy game | 187 | 3.1 % msn conspiracy | 124 | 2 % msn cartoon | 85 | 1.4 % conspiracy game | 70 | 1.1