Last week I suddenly received a email about a photo I uploaded on SXC. Permission was asked to use the photo of the coat rack by Osler. Osler is a law firm situated in Canada. The purpose of the photo was for a company lobby welcome sign. I asked for the end result of the usage end yesterday I received it!

I’m kinda proud of the fact a photo I made is used in a country across the ocean. Below you will find the end result.

After a lot of pounding with the first song I made with FL Studio (which never made it online), I can finally pronounce the first “finished” track I ever made. I do have to master it a lot more, but due to not having a top range sound card it’s hard to get that over with. That doesn’t mean that it’s not listenable, of course it is!

Of course I would like to hear a lot of criticism, tips, tricks whatever you want to say about the song. You can download it through the link below.

The song was made using FL Studio 8. Just the standard package, no extra samples downloaded. It’s a Trance / Progressive track. Used hardware? A Compaq Presario V6113EA with on-board sound!

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Download: GvE – The Chase / Shit!

Perception Management. What is it? A question you might want to ask yourself. The answer in my opinion is quite simple: creating truth. However on the web you’ll find more answers on the real meaning of the word. The Wiki page will tell you the following:

perception management—Actions to convey and/or deny selected information and indicators to foreign audiences to influence their emotions, motives, and objective reasoning as well as to intelligence systems and leaders at all levels to influence official estimates, ultimately resulting in foreign behaviors and official actions favorable to the originator’s objectives. In various ways, perception management combines truth projection, operations security, cover and deception, and psychological operations.

Hmmm, thought I wrote that I wouldn’t post anymore items until after my vacation. However, have some spare time at the moment and I thought this is a perfectly good time to answer a question I’m getting a lot lately.

Lot of people I know are questioning the fact that this blog is in English and not in dutch, my native language. However this has a reason of course! So listen carefully cause I’ll only say this once!
The reason for the English language setting is pretty simple. I can speak English pretty good I’d like to think, but writing a nice story or something like that is harder then I’ve thought. So I started this blog thingie to help me on the English writing part. Think it’s going pretty well at the moment, however some sentences are a bit freakish (like this one ). So now you know! Don’t forget it cause I don’t want to enable the search function of this site…

Then something entirely else! I kinda lied in the last post. I do have made some new pictures of the new tv and apartment. You can find them below! Think it gives a nice contrast if you compare them with the old pics. Oh yes I almost forgot, these crappy pics are made by myself…

[edit] Sorry had to delete the pics for now to get some more diskspace[/edit]

Okay, I will begin to clear some business which I talked about in previous posts. First, the pics of the finished apartment will take some time. Next week I have still some work to do and then it’s 2 weeks of Gran Canaries. So I will probably won’t post a lot in the first two weeks of September. I can promise you that I will be back posting the photo’s of our vacation, however I’ll probably won’t anyway.

At second. Last week the new trainer came to check us out. However he only talked with some guys in the bar. Still it looks like we got a new trainer soon! Pretty lame I’ll be on vacation the first or second one, but what the heck! This is good news! It will also give our current trainer a bit more time to train his own team.

Then some other things I want you guys to know. Today we had a little beach volley tournament. Damn what a damage to your muscles it can do in only a short amount of time (not that I have a lot of muscles ). Anyway, we ended up as one of the last team’s in the mixed poule. Our friends which also participated in the tournament won it for the second time in a row. Well what can I say….They just were better then the rest and probably ten times better then our level today.

Okay that was that for now. See you in a few weeks.

Tonight we have a volleyball training. Normally we only train on Thursday night but this evening me and the team are having a late night training with our (hopefully) new trainer.

My club is searching for a new one since about a year I think. However, nobody seems willing to train a team that’s not that good as other ones. I don’t mean we suck, but I think we could be much better then the level we’re at now.

I’m quite nervous at the moment. Don’t know why really, but I just want this to work out for the club and more important our team. Of course quite curious to. Want to know what kinda trainer he is and what he thinks about us.

Well let you know how it works out!