Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

NASA has a plan for asteroid deflection

Look’s like NASA is getting ready for the Asteriod by drawing up plans to deflect it, but dont get worried yet as NASA still has until 2029 to try and deflect the asteriod! NASA has outlined plans for dealing with an asteroid a quarter of a mile wide that astronomers believe is on a near-collision course with Earth. The agency

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Happy Birthday Bill Gates!

Happy Birthday Bill Gates, wish you all the best now that your 50! This weekend saw Mr Bill Gates turn the magic age of 50, half a century. It has been quite a year for Bill and birthdays, with his own Microsoft turning 30 this year. While people have their mixed views on Gates, its safe to say one thing

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Blog comment spam attacks!

Yep that’s right Blog comment spam attacks, I cam in from work yesterday and found that I had 50 new Blog comments to moderate, this is a huge amount of comments to moderate considering I normally only get a couple a day, anyway I marked them all as spam as I noticed that all the comments were linking to various

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Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2006 Final

Truly a great piece of software, I recommend you test it out to see the results for yourself. Thank you for participating in the Data Protection Manager beta program! The final version of Data Protection Manager is now available! The evaluation version can be downloaded at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/dpm/evaluation/trial.mspx As the latest member of the Windows Server System family, Microsoft® System Center

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Half-Life 2: The Lost Coast Released

Half-Life 2: The Lost Coast has been Released, this is what I have been waiting ages for and it’s finally here, but there’s just one problem, I’m still upset over Valve and why I haven’t got any reply from “webmaster@steampowered.com” has to why my ISP IP is banned from the Steam Forums, I sent an email last night to Gabe

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Visual Studio 2005 coming out on the 7th November

Microsoft is launching Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005 and Biztalk Server 2006 on the 7th November followed by events all around the country, dont miss it! Finally – we’re READY! Thanks to everyone who’s stayed the distance through the Visual Studio 2005 Beta Experience. We’ll be launching Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005 and Biztalk Server 2006 on 7th

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5 MSN Messenger Wave 8.0 Invitations

This is great but I have a gut feeling that I’m to late, but if do get accepted thanks goes to Sorcererr from my Msn Discussion site “http://www.msndiscussion.com” for pointing this out and if I don’t I still give thanks to Sorcererr for participating on our site. Thats right, your not seeing things i really have 5 MSN Messenger Wave

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Official Eccky launch soon!

I’ve only just found out about this and it look’s really cool as you can bring up a virtual child online just like a Tamagotchi but with two people caring for it as it’s parents but there’s just one problem it costs €1,50 and it looks like it’s only for the Netherlands. On the 26th of October Eccky will be