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11 settembre A New Post using Windows Live WriterWell it's been a long time since I posted anything here. Anybody still around? Noelle??? Adobe??? I just downloaded the new beta version of Windows Live Writer and I'm composing this blog in it at this very moment. This strikes me as a very good idea. Unfortunately it doesn't work with MySpace yet. But it's nice to have all these buttons for inserting links, pictures, tables, maps, tags and videos though. What bliss to be able to compose away from the inconsistencies of web dialog boxes and all those useful error messages like, "An unexpected error has occurred. The MySpace team has been notified." So without further ado here is a link to my latest home recording effort. Bodge Job Take Two It's 3.41 seconds long and 8.45MB at 320kbps mp3 Yes, I know 8.45MB is about twice the file size you'd expect for an mp3 but I'm having technical problems. I have to record my project to an analogue audio cassette and then re-record it back into the computer. This really mushes up the sound quality. At 128kbps you might as well not bother it's that bad.
And still in a spirit of adventure and trial, here's a funny picture. 17 febbraio LamentOK, this is me playing the guitar.
It's a 4.9MB mp3 and it's 3.36 minutes long. I've called it, Lament, for want of a better name. SHIFT & left click should open your default media player.
Or right click and, "Save Target As".
Here's the Mrs. laying down a rhythmn track.
 02 febbraio Things Overheard From A 13th Floor WindowWell, not a lot to report. I don't come here very often these days.
I'm not going to delete this space because there are lots of links here. Stuff by me and others that I may need in the future. This place is just SO damned clunky. I can't be doing with it! Here's an animation I've not posted here before.
You can find me at http://blog.myspace.com/worldwidewardy if you like.  12 dicembre Subliminal MessageI don't think I ever posted this little .GIF animation on here before.
I posted it on MySpace and Blogspot but not here.
I'm sick of looking at all that heavy writing below so just to keep the silliness
quotient up here it is. This is Windows Live Spaces after all.
Not the place to change the world eh?
 10 dicembre Child Support Agency ProposalsChild Support Agency and John Hutton's Proposals
I have just heard about the Labour MP, Mr. John Hutton's proposals about the Child Support Agency on BBC Radio 4's news programme, "The World This Weekend" and what he is saying strikes me as criminal. You can read about it on one of the BBC's news pages here His claim that, "When they don't pay, we have to pay, and that is not a proper thing to happen," is a dirty black lie! I have just sent the following message to him via his website and I urge any one with even the most rudimentary sense of justice to send some thing similar. The website above is aimed at his constituents in Barrow In Furness so if you know of a better way of getting to him in his capacity as Secretary Of State For Work & Pensions please use it and please let me know the address. This is what I sent to him: Sunday 10 December 2006.
Dear Mr. Hutton,
I have just heard about your proposals regarding The Child Support Agency on Radio 4's The World This Weekend this lunchtime. I really could not believe what I was hearing. The CSA has been in a morally indefensible position since it's conception, and you are proposing to get even tougher? How can you justify taking a third of a mans earnings and paying only £10 or £20 pounds additional benefit to that man's ex-wife and mother of his children. Where does the rest of the money go??? A man kicked out of the family home, living in rented accommodation, grieving about his children's welfare and perhaps taking home £800 to £1,100 per month has absolutely no incentive to work at all if you take a third of that meagre income away AND DON'T EVEN GIVE IT TO HIS CHILDREN!!! The CSA ignores previously legal agreements between ex-spouses. (e.g. Man donates family home and car etc). Have you any idea how many men have been driven to suicide by this, and how many men choose to go to prison rather than submit to this immoral state intervention??? These are OLD, OLD arguments and what you propose is CRIMINAL and leads directly to suicide! Your proposals are little short of MURDER! You are either sadly misguided or a cold hearted cynic! I for one would wear your attempt to name and shame me as a badge of honour and link it to every web space I have access to. You present only half the picture Mr. Hutton and it is utterly shameful of you to play politics with people's deepest feelings in this way. I have voted Labour all my life. I have had my doubts about the Iraq war and Student Loans, but this takes the biscuit. From here on in I will be actively campaigning against your lying and cynical party.
Yours faithfully, Mark Ward Sorry, no picture. This is beyond a joke. 10 novembre Sundry Items 'lo people, Just to let you know that;
1- My Computer is in pieces and I'm on a temporary machine for a while.
2- I seem to be becoming a serial blogger.
Third blog at following URL http://blog.myspace.com/worldwidewardy
3- I'd recommend following the link to Grinderman You don't have to sign in to hear the music.
It's by Nick Cave and will offend some people.
Personally, I can see where he's coming from and I applaud it.
 What do you think? Answers on a post card please ;¬)
23 ottobre The Rhythm Is Gonna Get YouWell, I said I must animate this picture and I have.
Albeit in a rather half-arsed way.
Perhaps I'll try again and get some expression in the face.
Even the B3tards seemed to find it amusing although Read my thread here (SHIFT & Click).
20 ottobre Gunpowder, Treason & PlotHere are some photos taken in a London friends, "Japanese Garden" earlier this week.
Get out the chestnuts and baked potatoes and wave goodbye to the Houses Of Parliament!
I'm a bit early for Bonfire Night. Forgive me.
18 settembre Obo Plays The DrumsObo has sent me a lot of abstract pictures made in Photo Shop recently.
This one looked so much like a drum kit, I couldn't resist adding a little
detail of my own.
SHIFT & Click the pic for the full version in a new window.. I must animate this! Edit: Click the thumb below for Obo's elegant return. 15 - 30: Wardy to serve then? 03 settembre Trying out the Firefox browser I've had a couple of viruses recently, a Trojan and a 'sploit, despite being meticulous about security updates anti-virus, firewall, and using the usual anti-spyware programs, Ad-Aware and Spybot - Search and Destroy. I'm typing this blog using Firefox now and I have to say I'm pretty impressed! It tells you a lot more about the web pages you're looking at than Internut Exploder which has been crashing on me for a couple of weeks now. I can see now why IE kept crashing everytime I tried to view Jolie Mae's space and why these spaces are so slow to load... Man, these spaces are pulling in data from 1001 different sources and use loads of scripts. I like how Firefox tells you when a script has stopped running, which they often do here on Spaces, and gives you the option to terminate it. It's a better option than an IE crash dude! As I recall, Firefox was deeply trendy in some circles a year or so ago, so to some people this will be nothing new, and others will have no idea what I'm banging on about! Funnily enough, yesterday, Bob mentioned it in the comments to the blog below, AND I struck up a conversation with a shop assistant in ASDA who has a degree in computer science, (go figure ;-) and when I told him about my problems he said, "I use Firefox because it's not Microsoft coding so it gets ignored by viruses". Makes a lot of sense I reckon. A couple of downsides: 1 - BG Sound* doesn't work in Firefox. (You're quite right Bob!) * the html code in the blog below that plays background music 2 - Spybot Search and Destroy doesn't seem to like it, but if Firefox is as good as I hope it is, I won't need Spybot anymore :) All in all, so far so good. I'd recommend it! It's free, it's under 5MB to download and it's amazingly quick and easy to install. Degree in Computer Science definitely NOT REQUIRED!!! 30 agosto The Good, The Bad and The BG MusicHere's a little GIF animation that speaks volumes Spacers ;¬)
All my grievances condensed into 43kb!
On the UPside: Did you know you can add background music <div><table><bgsound src="paste your music URL here" loop=3><tbody></tbody></table></div> Thanks to http://noellesnightclub.spaces.live.com/ for the tip. Pasted mine in the Sandbox. It works there too! brb ;¬)
28 agosto White Shoe Shuffle I was in two minds whether to post this third recording. Obo is never going to let me live down my stylistic aberration 19 agosto Recording into the computer via USBWell scrub the last post.
I can now record directly into my computer via a USB port!
I can even multi-track in a limited way by going into sound properties and selecting
my "USB Device" as the preferred recording and playback option.
W00t!!!
Despite the quoted system requirements and all the blah I've installed Cubase LE on here OK.
I never could understand the sodding thing when I saw it in recording studios so I've just done a
couple of sample recordings using Audacity.
Here's my first attempt. A bluesy 799kb mp3 file entitled Only XP My Arse Here's my slightly more ambitious second attempt involving 3 track recording. Apologies for the ropey playing on both.
17 luglio Telly Doc wins the race... Hurrah!It looks like Telly Doc wins the race by default as Obo
got abducted by a Furtive Polar Bear before it finished.
SHIFT & click here for 399kb finale.
The music is Marlene by Kevin Coyne from the 1970(ish) album called Marjorie Razorblade.
10 luglio Obo & Telly Doc RacingTo the uninitiated this little Flash movie might look pretty similar to the previous two.
But there is progress here..
1- I made a made scrolling background.
2- I made "Tweening" and, "Transform motion" work.
SHIFT and click here for a 520kb Flash Movie. 1 minute, 18 seconds long.
02 luglio The Right StuffWell I'm still messing about trying to make Obo fly
using the power of Flash.
SHIFT & click to Watch His Trail 372kb Flash
28 giugno Captain Obo & The Starfighters
SHIFT and click to open in a new window
Obo Starfighter 684kb Flash Obo needs to eject..
Me Flying My Plane 378kb Flash Obo replies from his magic carpet...
Listen to Obo being interviewed for the position of, "Starfighter Pilot". 1070kb mp3 - 3 mins 45 secs
Sound nicked from: Captain Lockheed & The Starfighters
14 giugno Music Links29 maggio New Guest Book I'm quite pleased with this guest book because it lets you copy and paste
code into the entries and use HTML to post pictures and links. 
As usual it's a good idea to press SHIFT while you click the button but the HOME button will bring you back here if you forget.
I've already stuck a few things in there, but what I'd really like is some input from you gentle reader.
Just pop in and say, "Hello", or if you're feeling more ambitious, post me a picture, a link or even a radiant muffin of your own design.
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