Yes! after testing out leaks of pre-beta bulids and other stuff today I got my email from the good old MSN devs

Dear MSN Butterfly,
Okay, we're ready for you.

You can now download and start testing the new beta version of MSN® Messenger, which will now be called Windows LiveTM Messenger.

I have to thank Vazz for the invite code thanks alot mate, and I hope to get some bugs reported, when I find them thats the least I can do i guess your alll dying to see pictures of it?… *tumble weed rolls past*… damn well i'll post some anyways

Here we have the convo window theres a few noticable new features like file sharing I am very disapointed with the current style of WLM 8 even though I know its currently BETA and the style could totally change. Like all the other MSN 7 / 7.5 BETA's the design has hardly changed when it has been released to the public.

The GUI looks terrible. Thats my honest opinion, if only they made it look like Windows Live Mail then that would be sweet!

And heres the contact list ouch thats bad :S "The Future of MSN Messenger" Sucks. Oh well this next screenshot is disgusting 109Mb of RAM is needed to run WLM 8 thats HIGHIER then photoshop

Why on earth does it needs that much I have no idea!

For more infomation on Windows Live Messenger see this post HERE

on another note:
frankie_uk@msn.com
dr.sieber@hotmail.com
asimmanzur@hotmail.com

In your language:
HAY! non of u wil eva git a invite off meh so stop spamin me blog asking 4 it.
kthxbai

Stupid n00bs.

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Wow this year has gone so fast it seems just yesterday that I was in spain celebrating christmas with my mum and dad but this year I won't be spending my Christmas with my parents for the very first time in my whole entire life.. T_T *Sigh* guess its a sign of growing up.

Instead it will be with my grandparents only my brother has experienced this type of christmas but apparently uncle petter will be round… Fun. The guy don't even talk to me on phone when he rings am I some sort of reject in this side of the family because I lived in spain for a while? Seems like it.

Nothing exciting has happened much lately at college Friday was slightly annoying because we only had 2 lessons and in the morning I went to the libary pretty normal right? well I put my 1gb USB drive in the PC to show my mates my IVA design I think I got side tracked and went out the libary, totally forgot my USB drive in the PC.

IVA in the afternoon come and like every lesson I went to plug in my USB drive.. OH SH!T OH MY GOD i've left my USB in the PC in the libary so i shot out the room down to the libary.. asked if anything been handed in looked on the back of the computers nothing.. great.. all my college work.. GONE.

Went to reciption.. Nothing.. walked back to lesson very upset because my program for IVA was near enough done and I really didnt want to do it again.. So upset I did nothing in the lesson, got my EMA signed went down to get in handed it just randomly asked jay to go see if it been handed in, and it had OH THE JOY YES NO WORK LOST SO HAPPY.

I was amazed that someone actaully handed it in, if that was a chav that would be been nicked but no some nice person actaully handed it in Tom Happy . Anyone been watching Space Cadets wow that program is so funny right they are tricking about 15 people into thinking they are going into space Woah LINK HERE

Been doing some work on Midnight: 06 live version here I am very excited to get this theme on its feet but aparently some people in my class like the current BW: 05 design so there will be a drop down at the side to change the theme Midnight: 06 will be released when Wordpress 2.0 (currently being tested on here) is released.

I've noticed on the Windows Live Messenger blog there is so many n00bs demanding the WLM 8 BETA guys when they are ready they will release it, not when you tell them to, also could people stop emailing me for Windows Live Mail invites I DONT HAVE THEM!

As for this guy:

HAY, im appualed, i was using my msn messenger 8 beta(being a beta tester and all), when i updated it, and the Windows Live Messenegr came up in the orange part(black for me) i couldnt log in, it siad i wasnet allowd, but i am allowd.

And being a beta tester, i also get to test out mail beta, 2GB!!! i dont need that much but still it good to gloat about.
Published By Matt Gladman – 09 December 22:35

Hello Matt if you talk like that you obviously are lying or not a proper BETA tester and just use the BETA to brag about. There is only a limited number of invites out there and you have probably taken some offical proper guys invite, sad.

- Tom Parker

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it seems near enough every day I have the urge to say something on my blog. This week so far has been interesting Monday at college we started our new timetable and our IVA, our IVA is the most important assignment for the whole course I have to work hard and get a distinction for this because I think I want to go into nat dip IT next year

We was creating Gantt charts for our IVA and for NCFE we went into 148 for the first time (The server room…. oooooooooooo SERVERS!!!) we had stuart teaching us but we did the most boring thing EVER wait for it… Unplugging the computer and plugging it back in then booting it… WOW How bl00dy exciting! We also went to play some pool at this snooker club thing too.

Tuesday.. we did more IVA and errrrm we had more fun in NCFE where we had to take a computer in 148 to bits, now that I think about it I should have let the others have a go taking the computer to bits, instead of me because I mean I did bulid my PC some people may have not ever seen whats in a PC until yesterday, although I did let them put some of it together again hmmm i’ll let the others have a go next time because I already know.

Going back to monday I got a random email from Microsoft!

You’re Invited

We want you, one of our Hotmail VIPs, to experience the next generation of Web-based e-mail – Windows Live Mail Beta. We’ve been testing the service, and we feel like it’s now ready for some of our best Hotmail customers like you, to try it out and tell us what you think.

So now I am testing the next version of hotmail.. go me i’ll add some screenshots soon once I get my Word Press software fixed ASAP, because it isn’t posting images *sig* more PHP and MySQL work. I think its a problem with the database because I reported the bug to WP Trac and they couldnt find the bug in the latest bulid speaking of which I need to upgrade!

Tuesday night was parents evening god we had to kill so much time (we as in me, richard and arron) so we went and played some pool with lee then we split and headed back to college my grand parents turned up and I showed them the way (no need really there was arrows, not even a idiot could have got lost ) We waited a short while until Tim called us in, I went in and sat while Tim spoke to my grand parents.

I’m very proud of what I have achieved in such a small amout of time, I have beat my personal aim which I set for myself which was:

• Make a decent group of friends and continue to do that through out college, from other courses
• Try do my best in all my work
• Get the highest grades avalible (Perfect to-date)

Tim handed over this sheet of what I am like to this day after some decoding of tims hand writing I think i’ve typed this out correctly.

Tom has done really well. His grades really speak for themselves. He puts a lot of effort, determination into his work, and his grades reflect this.

From what I have seen of Tom, it is blatant to see he is intelligent, funny and shows a lot of dedication and determination. I know he will breeze the course. My only hope is that he stays and does a national and even progress to do a BSC (HONS???), as I know he is capable of it.

Well to end this post all i can say is, i am going to try my hardest to get the highest grades avalible, and just keep trying it’s my life, I chose to be in college, so the least I can do is try my hardest!

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- Tom Parker

Edit: Heres a screenshot of Windows Live Mail

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Part 2 Here

Part 1 Here

As promised here is wednesdays activities and everything else i've been wanting to say all week lol

So wednesday morning we got up early because we had to get our room tidyed and everything packed walked down to the dinning room had our yucky fry up then went down to the games room I watched some tv as normal (news) and then we had to get ready for the day which was high rope I think I have got the spiders web thing from tuesday mixed up but i'm not sure!

So what was high rope? high rope was this wooden frame thing where you was harnesses up and you had to climb it wow fun? No it was freezing there was frost on the grass and ice on the pond and we was climbing up wood which was sliperly like h3ll and people was climbing up these things lol

You get the idea

err then we went home yay!

— Thursday —

As I said in part 2 i injured myself at hilltop I think I wont tell you where I hurt myself cuz its kinda embarrasing but thursday I went to the doctors to tell him my 3 problems which I think 1 of them wasn't caused by hilltop I seem to have this pain in my back well kidney The dr said it was very tender so he said i MIGHT have a problem there he said after 3 days and it still hurts take in a water sample… well that sucks!

In there afternoon my grandad had to goto doctors in boston so we went there then into olrids where I txt richard to see if they was outa college which they was so i come down on the lift and you never guess what happened? the life talks to you so like its says "Doors Opening" "Going Down" ect well I was going down to ground floor on my own when it said "Going Down" ok thats pretty normal la la la then it just stopped…

OH CR4P the lift had jammed i was stuck in the lift! oh my god Im clostro too so there i was shaking and sweating trying to hold onto something incase it shot down, i press the alrma button and the alarm goes off then someone says "Hello how can I help" and I said "help im stuck in the lift" (well duh) so I stood there waiting and i called my mates who was somewhere and told them.

after a while the lift went up doors didnt open then down doors didnt open *pause* doors open I see loads of people waiting to get in the lift i just stood there and said "i've just been stuck in the lift!" then walked out and met my mates!

so after boston we went to spalding to pick my bro up yeah.. then made our way to peterboro got there went xmas shopping, loads of people, blah blah I went to dixson wow I played on the x360 COD2 sucked! but I am not judging the x360 by one game! we went home ect

*Yawn*

Its Christmas, The Coca Cola xmas advert is on yay

- Tom Parker

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Carrying on from Part 1

One tuesday we woke up at 7.30 and got ready for the day ahead at 8 we walked up to the dinner bit had this crappy little fry up thing and then went down to the games room for abit, like normal I sat in the second tv room alone (Rather be on my own or a few others rather then with loads of people) watched the news *yawn* nothing interesting after that we was told to get in our outdoor gear and get into our groups.

It was bloody cold like normal lol the first thing we had to do was this team and communication buliding exercise where we had to get as many people through this spider web in 15 minutes without touching it and we couldnt use the same hole. We spent too much time talking about how we was going to do it james went first then me. We had to lift the girls through some of the top holes and then there was 3 left.. We could have just left them there but no we had to try get them all through, we tried to get mr osborne (Chris) through the hole but he caught it. Damn we had 1 minute left so we left it. Failed that task >_<

The next one was a fun one and we completed it, I took an active part in planing this activity what we had was 3 small circular platforms in a triangle we had to put 3 on a platform and work out how we could get each person from one to the other using these two bits of wood a small bit and a big bit what you had to do is stick the small bit down first and have someone stand on the back of that while the large bit on top of it to transferr people over we managed to get that done

The last task was a boat, swinging rope and a small deck what we had to do is get EVERYONE on this deck without touching the ground sounds easy? no the deck was really small! but we manged to do it then we have another go but with a even smaller deck.. woah we did that too..

Forgot to add we did the balancing thing too then it was dinner time yay o.O

Dinner was horrible no really I have this problem where I don't like bits in my liquids so like I can't orange juice with bits in it because it makes me cringe *URGH* so this soup was vegitable soup yum? nah it taste ok but.. it looked like someone had just got shit loads of veg and chucked it in a blender! it was the bits which got me though so i ate bread instead lol

After dinner we had some time to ourselves then when out to do some more activies, so we got back into our groups and we had to do this map reading thing where we go off and find posts and write thes letter under them! *yawn* possible the most boring activity i've done, we got Mr osborne lost hehe!

After that we went to do some air riffle tasks where we shoot a target I did pretty good in that too, if I could find my target sheet I might scan it and upload it to here!

We went to the clim wall got our harnesses fitted then went off to the zipper which was this steel line which you was clipped to then shot down at 30/40 MPH I think this is where I injured myself (which I will discuss later) anyways that was interesting see picture

AFter we did that twice we went onto do the big climb it was getting dark and cold everyone was fed up but we did it the picture speaks for itself:

I did number 5 which looked hard and i'm not a very good climber so I thought I did well

We then went back to the games room… well I didnt i went for a shower and got changed before all the hot water was nicked muhahaha. I then walked back to the games room went and watched TV then had tea which was suprisingly good! lasagna very nice

Chilled in the TV room for the night had to ring mum well ring grandparents and tell them to ring mum to ring me had to tell her something important.

after a couple hours I reired to my room and started packing because we had to be out by 8 so using common sence we packed our cases the previous night! went for my 2 hour sleep I was so pissed off I was ready to throw a shoe at dave with his snoring and breathing *ANGRY*

There tuesday, wednesday coming tomorrow?

- Tom Parker

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