After being a offical MSN 7 and 7.5 Beta tester for Microsoft they have have hopefully put me into Windows Live Messenger 8

I recieved this email today:

Welcome to the MSN Beta Program!

Thanks for signing up. We understand how excited you are to get started, and we want to get going, too. We're working as fast as we can to figure out the best way for us to get your feedback. We know the waiting is the hardest part, but soon we'll be sending you an invitation for a specific Windows Live beta-and that will make the wait worthwhile.

Now I am not fully sure if this is Windows Mail BETA or Windows Live Messenger 8. Just checked MS Connect and theres a new thing on there too!
— In other News —

Guess I better get some more Office "12" shots up! again watch the space to the right >>

- Tom

8 Comments » Posted by Tom Parker / College

Hey everyone how are you all? hope your lives are going well etc. Sunday we went out for a meal.. very good

This week college has been possibly the most boring time at college since i've started. Monday.. The bus was 30 minutes late so we got the college late all we did monday was learn about the history of a mouse, keyboard stuff I really don't care about.. but it has to be learnt!

Tuesday.. Yeah same thing again I really can't remember much of Tuesday I was really stressed with John, Jason and anyone else who pissed me off grrrr, nothing too bad though, not bullying or anything thats all in the past. User IT sucks at college and *removed* really isn't giving a flying fuck about it, we was being taught how to use excel *yawn* then again I thought i'd take this time to catch up on the whole thing so i did.

Wednesday was alot better hurray whole day off college oh and a driving lesson …. In the dark though.. damn so I drove to wisbech had a ride round town then went down this little road did some turns in the road then went home lol. Come home had tea, sat on PC talked to people (You know who you are!) then watched LOST and LOST on E4… went to bed, only got 2 hours of sleep… damn that tuna sandwich before bed.. <_ <

Thursday (Today) wow what a day.. Had a User IT theory lesson, I was dreading it a praying that Sam wasn't there.. Walked in who did I see? Tim! yay we did a quiz on some business stuff, learnt some stuff then we had keyskills… sonia wasn't in though so we just played on computers because my IVA work is at home and today was one of them days where… I really couldn't be assed to do anything!

Because CSYS is over.. damn I didn't say bye to barry we had from 12 to 4.30 to kill… wow cool so we went up town I thought hey Im gonna treat myself to this fuck off massive roll cheese and sausage lol with tommy sause.. WICKED! ate that YUM! then walked arround boston, walked back to college got a free pool pass and when to swimming pools got changed ect got in the pool oooooooooooh it was so warm lovely

We stayed in the pool for about 2 hours, so I looked like a old man when I come out lol, no cramps this time so I must be getting fitter! came out of then pool see rich and Mr Lee walked with them to the libary see amy (bitch) and linzee also see zoe phone rang, grandparents coming to boston now going to pick me up… wow this day couldn't have got better so we walked up town see few other mates and that waited for grentz (grandparents) to come pick me up.. picked me up went home had tea… now typing on blog.. fun… long read

— Blog Updates —

Added some more stuff to my blog now.. Chav Jokes 3 few other visual things added too. getting alot of content on here now which is good… very impressed! Added a link at the top… for people that dont know what a blog is! and added the subscribe to my blog link again… now its been fixed. Blog is running Wordpress BETA 2.0 w00t. Started adding some christmas stuff to the site design.. but still keeping it simple

— Video Blog —

Uploaded my first video blog today here its only 750Kb and lasts for about what 2 minutes? I will try improve it ALOT but it is my first so give me credit

Wow… long read enjoy posting some more stuff in a couple of days… later!

- Tom

PS: Hey Tim!

2 Comments » Posted by Tom Parker / Blog and Boring and College and Computers and Fun and Random

[Sorry about the double email, subscribers]

Its that time again, i've been very busy with college and that, the normal stuff lol. Finally got my VB assignment in today ok even that went wrong. I forgot it.. and 10 minutes later on the bus, I got a phone saying "hey guess what you have forgotten" >_< damnit! However they handed it in to the libary along with pink slip ect

EMA is FINALLY sorted! No you didnt read that wrong, after what 2 and a half months the EMA office has send the last bit of paper to get me £20 a week yay!

Have not really done much today or yesterday or all week really im upto date! the only thing I need to worry apart is starting our IVA urgh what a load of crap that is, however it has (and will) be done!

Finally got my car sorted! my dad has given me his Peugeot 306, so now I am going to try like hell to learn how to drive as much as possible! We was doing emergency stops the other night, so i was thrashing it down a straight then breaking like fuck sexcellente.

Microsoft emailled me today, telling me my first bug in Office 12 I found the other night has been report and will be fixed in a future bulid wanna see some screenshots? well that comes later because im going the post article so keep watching out for it on your right >>>>

Theres a nice Xbox 360 article to the right which I really need to update! Christmas is edging closer and closer it will be the 19th tomorrow! and you can now see the early christmas shoppers round bostons and the traffic is increasing too!

I am working on my own program now its its a quite useful file too, some credit goes to alex for helping me out with some of the features so I guess i better explain what it does! Well its been bugging me for a while but i save all my college work to my USB pendrive without backing it up… just imagine if something went wrong?

Well this program now sorts out that little worry by running in the background and soon as a usb device is plugged in first it checks for the "USB Key file" (Backup.USB) in the root of the drive, if it finds that it does a full backup, else if not its just displays a messagebox saying USB not detected, very smart ;P its even got its own little icon, hell heres a screenshot for you!

News just in i am now a drug dealer, people are randomly calling me up saying hey its have your got any :S ooooooooook wtf lol. ok theres your update… still trying to get videos sorted! lol

Cheers

- Tom

1 Comment » Posted by Tom Parker / Blog and College and Computers and Confusion and Milestones

Yes! Finally a decent BETA where they will take my bug reports seriously!

A snip of the email!

Hello , Thank you for completing our nomination survey sometime within the past several weeks, and letting us know about your interest in participating in the Microsoft® Office "12" Technical Beta program. We are pleased to announce that your request for participation in the Office "12" Technical Beta has been approved. You will be provided with access to the Office "12" Beta software, documentation, and support within the next 2-3 weeks. But we wanted to let you know now that you have been accepted, so that you can make any preparations that you need (Technical Beta system requirements are found below).

Our goal for the Technical Beta is to have a well targeted group of testers who are willing to actively participate and provide useful feedback to our development team. Regular and consistent participation throughout the program is expected. As an approved Technical Beta tester, we ask that you do the following: * Download Office "12" software and related information * Participate in private beta newsgroups * Submit bug reports online * Complete periodic surveys to share your input on various technical issues * Observe the non-disclosure terms of participation

Oh thats so cool! One step closer to Windows Vista, It has'nt apeared in MS Connect site yet though so i'll just wait, jus getting my machine setup ready for the BETA, Gotta get a nice clean install of XP install and a decent test scenerio.

My machine is upto spec also

*** SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS ***

Below are the system requirements for the Microsoft® Office "12" Beta-1 software. NOTE: We have provided these minimum hardware recommendations here as guidance for deploying Beta-1, but as with any Technical Beta, they do not necessarily represent final Office "12" hardware requirements.

CLIENT

• Operating System: Windows XP SP1 or Windows 2003 (RTM or higher) required
• Processor: Pentium 512 MHz or higher * RAM: 256 MB minimum
• HD: Varies depending on installation choices
• Resolution: 800 x 600 or higher

SERVER

• Operating System: Windows Server 2003 SP1

Single box installation:

• Processor: 2.5 GHz
• RAM: 2 GB recommended, 1 GB minimum
• HD: Scenario dependent

Farm Deployment:

• Web server - Processor: 2.5 GHz; RAM - 2 GB
• App server - Processor: Dual proc - 2.5 GHz; RAM - 2 GB
• SQL - Processor: Dual proc - 2.5 GHz; RAM - 2 GB

Not too sure if I could test it on my server enviroment but we will see

Updates to coming when avalible

- Tom

3 Comments » Posted by Tom Parker / Boring and Computers

Hey how you all doing finally got my bluetooth dongle for my pc and getting used to using it for my phone i've made my own theme for it now plus the screensaver (you can tell I really dont have a life) i've only been up for 30mins too so im not really with it.

College has been going pretty well, handed in my 42 page assignment and i neeed to get the other 2 done (just messed about in class monday and tuesday ) we have had a good laugh took some videos but because jay got hurt and pissed off there not to be posted on my blog.

However I have got some pics i've taken with my phone and added to the photo gallery which are pretty cool Here For Phone Pics and Here For College Mates wow i'm amazed at the quality aswell because the college mates bit was off my old nokia 3200 and for the size ect thats not bad.

Driving lesson asnormal yay oh and i've start chucking on some more videos on Tom Parker Shows: and if you really don't like chavs (the not very nice ones) i've posted 2 pages of chav jokes more to come soon! they are here and here or just look to your right top'ish and you'll see them.

Thankyou for them who tested my game (Who wants to be a millionaire) They have been printed of and they are ready to me put inot my assignment but I need 3 more so if you wish to test out my game go over to BetaXP Forums and read through that first post.

Anything else to say……. Oh yeah joes home, some have been asking who is Joe well he is my younger brother who is constantly moody and randomly hits me and annoys me, then has the cheek to say im annoying him by being normal URGH! but he is 15 so he's at that age lol.

Dad is over, but aint seen him yet they had a problem at the airport or something where he forgot his papers for hiring out a car >_< but I think he has got some car sorted out or something not sure on that side of things but i aint heard from him.

That will do foranother couple of days talk to you later

- Tom

1 Comment » Posted by Tom Parker / Blog and Boring and College and Rants