Dear Friends, after having exchanged several e-mails with the Microsoft support team I must admit that I understand their position. In January this year I published a picture that might be offensive to certain people. I decided to remove this one.

I strongly believe in an open dialog and respecting each others opinion. My strong reaction was premature.

I would like to thank all of you who supported me with advice and sympathy, I am really touched deeply. So proud to have such good friends.

Kisses, Joey.

Dear Friends, one hour ago I received an email from the Microsoft Support Team. I thought that this message contained the long expected solution for the problems I have encountered the last 3-4 weeks with my web site (I told you about this before).

None of this all. Microsoft writes ("cut&pasted"):

Hello YO_Dalton,

We have found images involving partial nudity on your Space, YO-Dalton.

Kindly remove this image and any other images, messages or links on your Space that violate the Windows Live Spaces Code of conduct within 120 hours ...Otherwise, we will be forced to close down your space (incident SRX 1040581556ID; action required!).

Dear Friends, please help me or advice me.
I thoroughly checked all 600 pictures that I have posted since I started this web site, one year ago. I deleted THREE pictures, showing one or two nude woman breasts; I deleted these three innocent pictures. Did I miss other ones that contain partial or complete nudity??

Joey Dalton.

Dear Friends, today I would like to show you some pictures of miniature babies. They are all created by Camille Allen
(web site: Camille Allen Gallery). Enjoy:

Have a wonderful weekend!
Kisses , Joey.

Dear Friends,  Mrs D. and I just had an absolutely perfect lunch, prepared by ... MYSELF  (no kidding !).
Please allow me to tell you more; I sincerely hope that you are not hungry. The basis is bread and cheese.

The spicy taste comes from Spanish pesto and Turkish olives.

The second round consists off Italian Tiramisu and Cappuccino.

.. everything combined with a bottle of French wine and closed with an expensive cigar from Cuba (my wife prefers a cigarette).

I need a nap now, I feel so .... good ...  
Kisses, Joey.

Dear Friends, there is a problem with my Space: I cannot do anything about my friend list.

- I cannot accept any new invitations
- messages sent to me do not arrive
- I cannot invite new friends;

The people of Microsoft Live Spaces are looking into this problem; a little bit patience is needed. The problem seems to be that I have about

 1000 Lady Friends,  unbelievable!.

No-One has had ONE THOUSAND space friends before .

I sincerely hope that you are healthy and happy.

Kisses  , Joey.

This post is for one my very special friends, who joined me from the beginning.

Fly, lady, fly!
Kisses, Joey.

Dear Friends, last night we had a terrible thunder storm crossing our village. I love thunder storms, the more noise the better. I have been sitting on the porch for several hours, just watching the Gods chasing each other in heaven. and roaring like wild lions.

Quite the opposite is the following scene:

Is this big boy melting too? Astonishing and beautiful.

My nephew Roy (the son of my brother William) came to visit us after so many years. He proudly showed me his bold head and asked me: "What do you think about this, uncle Joey?".

"Cool!" I said. I really love the work of Escher, one of my favorites are the two hands, drawing each other.

Kisses, be gentle to each other!
Joey.

Dear Friends, I never told you that I am a big fan of Science-Fiction and Fantasy. Not only the books and magazines but also the movies, pictures and drawings.

One of my favorite painters is Sorayama Hajime. Please have a look at some of his work from his series "sexy robots":

Kisses, Joey.

Dear Friends, this post is for those of you who are BORED; long weekend, dull job, rainy days, awful TV, etc, etc.

Don't despair, there is hope ! Specially for you I built an extra web page, titled "Joey's Games Corner". Click on the Games picture at the top of this page.

 

You open the games page on your own risk. I advice you to put some spinach into your ears or unplug your speakers; soon you will know why. I have no idea how all these games work, even IF they are working properly.

If you have any tips to handle bored people, or if you have an amazing high score, just leave a message on one of my pages.

Good Luck & Enjoy Playing !

Kisses, Joey.

Dear Friends, in case you did not notice: today it is

Friday The 13th ...

Take my advice: stay inside, keep your family and loved ones with you. Do NOTHING, just wait till tomorrow.

I have warned you!

Kisses  , Joey.

Dear Friends, the last week I have been very busy reorganizing my web site. I noticed that the CPU load to display my page was extreme. After many, many experiments, I have created two new sites: one to store my movie clips and one for discussing issues concerning problems using Windows Live Spaces.  You can go there by using the links at the top of this page.

Something else; I saw a beautiful picture on the Internet:

My grandfather taught my how to ride horses when I was a little boy, 10 years young. Since then I ride horses, I still own one and try to ride her every other day.

Kisses, Joey.

Sweet Friends, today I would like to give a tribute to the three most beautiful movie actresses I have ever seen:

Sophia Loren

Elizabeth Taylor

Isabella Rossellini

For the Movie Fans:

I lOVE The Movies  

Kisses, Joey.

Dear Friends, Mrs D. called me a Grumpy Old Man .

Well, I am NOT; let me show you the REAL Grumpy Old Men, my Absolute Favorites Jack Lemmon and Walther Matthau.

Their movies are classics and hilarious.

Please, have a look at (probably) their last movie:

I don't mind being like one of them !
Kisses, Joey.

Dear Friends, no reaction whatever from Microsoft. Second Try (posted at two Microsoft sites):

Today I would like to ask some questions to the Microsoft people that are responsible for Windows Live Spaces.
1) Why don't you give a decent and quick support on questions and problems concerning Windows Live Spaces? Please have a look at this site (http://thespacecraft.spaces.live.com "THE site for Windows Live support") and see for yourself how good your service is.

2) Spaces is about building communities of friends; how come your support of Friends information is so terribly BAD?

3) Who invented the limit of 1000 friends and WHY????

4) How come your service is often so terribly slow??

5) How come your services like "pending requests" are sometimes COMPLETELY DOWN ??

6) How come new Spaces gadgets are only constructed by good-willing USERS ?? How many "experts" work at Microsoft that could contribute to, let us say ONE decent widget per week? month?

There are numerous alternative companies offering the same services as Live Spaces but with much better quality; don't you care ??

I will try to post these complaints some-where else at Microsoft; I am sure several of you are just SLEEPING.

Joey S. Dalton.