A tribute to my Volvo 850

Nov 24th 2009, 02:10

He served me more than 100.000 kilometers, we drove through England, France, Belgium, Germany, Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands, but now it's time for his retirement. Bye Volvo 850 GLT!

Blake Jarrell presents Concentrate 2009

Apr 8th 2009, 16:29

This is the first time I write a review about a new music album. Normally I wouldn't write reviews, but I really want to share a new album because it's really brilliant. I pre ordered the album a few weeks ago and last weekend I found it in my mailbox. I started listening it immediately and felt in love with the story of deep progressive beats, trancy melodies, housy sceneries and indulging side-effects called ' Blake Jarrell - Cencentrate 2009'.

Blake Jarrell is an American DJ originally from New Orleans, after the Katrina disaster he moved to Chicago and started his DJ Career. After listening to a few of Blake's tracks, Armin van Buuren himself contacted Blake and right after that he started touring with Armin all over the world. Personally I first heard of Blake Jarrell after the Anna Nalick - Breathe remix, which was my absolute favourite track in 2006 and made my summer perfect with loads of great memories. I started following Blake Jarrell and was pleased to watch him live in The Sand in Amsterdam. He started his radio show, also called concentrate which is a monthly radio show full of nice progressive music. Since I was searching for a less main-stream DJ, Blake Jarrell is now one of my favourite 'future talents'.

The first CD of the album is full of new remixes from Blake and his very own track called 'Eilat'. The tracks are really amazing, Blake is one of the best remix DJ's I've ever seen, he remixed artists like Snow Patrol, Anna Nalick, Linkin Park and now on this album he remixed some tracks of his colleagues in the Blake Jarrell style, which are quite brilliant. I would almost say this album is quite ambience, every track is a story within very big story, it's perfectly mixed together and this first CD is one big pleasure for my ears, my brains and my body.

The second (bonus) Cd are tracks we already know from Blake Jarrell which are awesome. I thoroughly enjoyed hearing ' Not Alone tonight ' again and his brilliant remix of ' Wouldn't change a thing' from Jose Amnesia feat Jennifer Rene. Also, a few of his own produced tracks are on this album, a perfect CD for in my car, I love it.

Blake Jarrell didn't want to create ‘just' an artist or mix album. Blake needed something special. In my opinion he succeeded. Blake's album is Focusing on Blake's remixes and productions, all in optimal balance to one another. Blake Jarrell is also in 2009 my favourite future talent, although he's already a huge talent. I can't wait to see him spinning again in Holland.

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A great tool to write blog posts

Mar 27th 2009, 19:00

Writing a blog post is for amateurs like me very difficult, especially when English isn't your mother language. I just got pointed by my girlfriend about a web service who can help me.

Not only my spelling is pretty bad, also my word choices, my grammatical feeling and the way to express myself. EssayRater is able to help me, I simply write my article in a document, paste it in EssayRater and hit the Analyze button.

After checking plagiarism, spelling & grammar, punctuation, sentence structure and Style & word choice, EssayRater shows me a full report about my blog post. Using this tool is so much better than my spelling check, it even tells me when I use words and phrases inconsistent with the context or the style of the entire rest of my blog post.

After checking the blog post, it also suggests words with the 'WordBooster'. In short it well suggest me context-fitting synonyms to look my blog post even better and smarter. I'm just an amateur blogger, but for students this web service is also quite awesome, even when you fully master the English language.

Using this tool will cost you about 19 dollars a month (so for Europe it's like 1 EUR a month), then you can use this tool for unlimited kind of documents!

Check it out: http://www.EssayRater.com/

Why I started blogging

Mar 24th 2009, 00:00

I’m Lennaert Ekelmans, 21 years old and originally from the Netherlands. I’m a serial (Internet) entrepreneur, web developer and cake baker. I’m photographing for fun with my Canon 30D and a Canon 5D Mark II. I’m also a trance addict, especially a fan of Armin van Buuren, Above & Beyond, Aly & Fila, Blake Jarrell and Roger Shah.

I was always against blogging because I know myself and I wouldn’t update it even after a few weeks of trying. I changed my mind because:

• My girlfriend started blogging and I was a bit jealous..
• I think it's really useful to blog articles so that people can find it on Google and use it as a reference.
• And of course I like myself, which is a must for having a blog..

So don't expect me as a serial blogger, blogging about my beautiful life and bore you to death. I will only write articles which might be useful for readers, like write about my CakePHP experiences or writing about interesting subjects. Hopefully people will find useful information on a specific subject so that they can use it as a reference.
 
Edit: A hot requested feature (already 10 hours after the launch) is the ability to post comments. Expect this feature soon..