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September 11 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. February 17 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.
 February 02 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.  December 12 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?
 December 10 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.
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