Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

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NASA Unveils Plan to Go Back to the Moon by 2008

For the first time since Apollo, NASA will be sending a rocket to the moon for the deployment of a probe in 2008! April 10, 2006 — NASA announced today it will send a rocket to crash into the moon, an early step to delivering the first astronauts to the planet since the last Apollo missions more than 30 years

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We can rebuild him. We have the technology. Almost!

I find articles like this very interesting especially when they talk about The Six Million Dollar Man, ok not entirely but I do like articles which talk about fiction becoming reality, and this is one of them that as caught my eye today because it’s definitely as truth in it. Three decades after the hit television programme The Six Million

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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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March 2006 BCS Interview with Sir Tim Berners-Lee

I saw this article first in the March 2006 issue of the BCS ITNOW and it’s now online for those of you who don’t read ITNOW! Looking back on 15 years or so of development of the Web is there anything you would do differently given the chance? I would have skipped on the double slash – there’s no need for

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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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Windows Live Developer Center

Just heard about a Windows Live Developer Center through the MSND Biweekly Newsletter: Welcome to the Windows Live Developer Center Your online world gets better when everything works simply and effortlessly together. That’s the basic idea behind Windows Live. So the things you care about your friends, the latest information, your e-mails, powerful search, your PC files, everything come together in one

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Writely who has been acquired by Google actually uses ASP .NET

I must say I find this kind of funny. 🙂 Congrats to the team who made Writely for getting acquired by Google. They built it in .NET. It used to be uncool to startup a company with Microsoft technologies, but I’ve seen more and more .NET stuff being done in the Valley. Who’s next? Via: Robert Scoble

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Park your car on your balcony

I’ve never seen this mentioned before so I thought I would mention it: I first read about the idea of the Loft Car in one of Nicolas’ post. German architects Manfred Dick (who sought a patent for his concept) and Johannes Kauka want to help drivers park their car right on their appartment’s balcony. You’d drive the vehicle straight on

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More details on Microsoft’s Origami project: Ultra-Mobile PC

Microsoft’s Origami project website is now on Week 3, which brings us to the end of the Microsoft Mystery because we now have a whole wave of new information about the Ultra-Mobile PC which can run a full version of Windows XP along with other full software, more details below: What is the Ultra-Mobile PC? The Ultra-Mobile PC is a