Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

Blog Upgraded to WordPress 2.0.4

You’ll be happy to know that I’ve just Upgraded this blog from WordPress 2.0.3 to WordPress 2.0.4, which should hopefuly fix over 50 bugs that apparently laid in wordpress: WordPress 2.0.4, the latest stable release in our Duke series, is available for immediate download. This release contains several important security fixes, so it’s highly recommended for all users. We’ve also rolled in

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Top 10 Search Keyphrases for June 2006

Lately I’ve been wondering if to stop these Top 10 Search Keyphrase posts, but as I’ve had some nice comments about them and how some of you like seeing what people normally search  for when finding my blog, I’m going to carry on posting these posts for now, so here I go: 1719 different keyphrases where used to find my site

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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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Upgraded to WordPress 2.0.3

Just upgraded to WordPress 2.0.3! 🙂 The latest in the stable 2.0 series, 2.0.3, is now available for download. This is a bug fix and security release, and is recommended for all WordPress users. In addition to an issue that was raised on Bugtraq a few days ago, we’ve also backported a number of security enhancements from 2.1 to further

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Search Keyphrases May 2006 (Top 10)

515 different keyphrases where used to find my site in May 2006, here are the top 10 with the amount of time they were used and their percentage. | vtunnel | 812 | 40.5 % msn conspiracy game | 164 | 8.1 % darren straight | 30 | 1.4 % windows vista beta 2 download | 30 | 1.4 % vtunell | 29

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Mini-Microsoft: Microsoft’s mystery insider

Just game across this article, it’s a very interesting read even if it doesn’t tell us the man behind Minimsft (Mini-Microsoft) The voice on the line, which had been easy and confident with a staccato laugh, suddenly lowers with concern. It’s because I mention his first name. “Please don’t put that in the paper, Danny,” the voice says. “I don’t

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How much is your domain worth?

Well apparently you can now find out with LeapFish.com’s Domain Name Resource Center which will give you the estimated value of any domain name you type in. “This question is asked by many, but very few get a solid answer. This is because domain names rely entirely on demand and therefore the only indication as to value is what somebody will pay for

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50th position on the Blog Top Sites technology category!

Great news for my Blog, it’s now made it to the bottom of the first page on the Blog Top Sites technology category, putting it in 50th position out of all the technolgy sites registerd with Blog Top Sites. I was recently in 59th postion on the second page of the technology category and thought at first that maybe it was some mistake but with ever stats reset I’m seeing my blog

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Free Creativity Website Domain Name Giveaway!

Hey everyone, do you know of anybody, maybe even yourself, who would like to start a Creativity Website or Blog or maybe even a forum based website for discussing creativity, or anything else you can think of with your creative mind that involves creativeness! Why am I asking this well I’m asking this because I have a domain name registered