January
We got accepted for the guild Tivoli, but didn't get to raid much with them since they didn't feel for "dragging us through" the attunement bosses. We got one of them, but Kael'Thas still lived. Trekki acquired both Super Mario Galaxy and Super Paper Mario for Wii.

February
Not much happened in February.

March
Blizzard released a patch which made attunements unnecessary, and as a result we were allowed to raid with Tivoli. Unfortunately this meant that they expected us to be ready for almost every raid, but we were unable to do so, so we started planning on getting away from there.

April
We quit Tivoli and founded Voltage. We got some good guys in and started raiding Karazhan. I changed my main to Koopa.

May
A bit less playing due to exams, but we continued to recruit and slay bosses in Karazhan with Voltage. We also started playing some Lord of the Rings Online: Trekki played a Hunter and I played a Lore-Master.

June
Blizzard revealed Diablo 3! Vacation time meant less raids. Trekki (<3) gave me a Nintendo DS with Final Fantasy VI Advance! In Lord of the Rings Online, I changed to a Dwarf Guardian. We got accepted for a Kinship.

July
We stopped playing Lord of the Rings Online at about level 30. I got a beta key for Wrath of the Lich King and made me a low-level Death Knight which I and Stein-Ivar duoed Blackrock Depths with at level 57.

August
We started conquering Zul'Aman with Voltage. All the first four bosses went down. I purchased The Legend of Zelda: The Phantom Hourglass and Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings for the Nintendo DS. I was absolutely amazed by Zelda and uttermost disappointed by Revenant Wings. School commenced so there were less gaming as a result of this.

September
We tried out Spore, and got to the space age there, but stopped playing shortly after that.

October
Vimeo gave gamers the finger by banning all gaming videos and deleting them without warning. I tried acquiring my videos back, but they have yet to respond. I got an keychain which looked like Frostmourne.

November
ipwn gaming blog was created! Zul'Jin was defeated. On November 12 we went on an epic quest to acquire Wrath of the Lich King. We spent most of the gaming time in November on levelling to 80.

December
We started raiding and soon cleared all contents except Malygos. He's still alive, but given the lack of challenge it should be no big issue to get him down too. I soloed Onyxia and became hated with Steamwheedle Cartel. Finally I released Fishbringer to the public. I got Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures from Trekki for Christmas.

I have for some time been developing an addon named Fishbringer. Fishbringer is a small addon that shows you what requirements you need to fish in the different zones and subzones of World of Warcraft. It also counts and estimates how many fish you need to catch to get the next skill level.

It was originally made in December/January last year using the Dongle framework, but when I dug through its old code, I figured that I'd rather build the addon up from scratch myself without any interference of a framework.

Last Saturday I uploaded it to WoWInterface.com, and I got some good responses to it. In fact, it made this week's "Pick of the week". I'm proud as hell. :D As we speak it's gotten almost 500 downloads and 74 favourites!

To check out Fishbringer, please visit its WoWInterface download page.

Ever since Stein-Ivar told me about this song, it's been going through my mind. The past days I've been playing this tune on my guitar, and as I haven't found any tabs for it yet, I figured I'd go on and find out how it goes. I have not yet been able to transcribe the solos and do them mostly on intuition (which doesn't go that well always). Anyways, it is a good tune and I recommend you to listen to it.

Cranius - Big Blue Dress (Standard tuning)
[A5]I've been kicking ass [E5]since the dawn of time
[G5]I'm just a killing man that's [D5]reached my killing prime
[A5]I burn and I plunder as it [E5]suits my desire
[G5]The weapon of my choice is [D5]"great balls of fire"

So [A5]why, I ask, it just [G5]doesn't make much sense
That a [F5]man of my stature should [E5]have to wear a dress
I mean [A5]what, may I inquire, were you [G5]thinking on that day
When you [F5]conjured up for a man like me a [E5]robe that looks so gay

[A5]Aaaaaaa-[G5]aaaaaaa
[F5]Sit right back and your [E5]troubles melt away
[A5]Aaaaaaa-[G5]aaaaaaa
[F5]He uses fire but his [E5]robe looks so gay

[A5]I was taught my craft [E5]at the dawn of pain
[G5]You may not like my methods but you'll [D5]surely know my name
[A5]I just think incendiary thoughts and my [E5]hands burst into flames
[G5]A few moments later and you'll [D5]never be the same

So [A5]why, I ask, it just [G5]doesn't make much sense
That a [F5]man of my stature should [E5]have to wear a dress
I mean [A5]what, may I inquire, were you [G5]thinking on that day
When you [F5]conjured up for a man like me a [E5]robe that looks so gay

[A5]Aaaaaaa-[G5]aaaaaaa
[F5]Sit right back and your [E5]troubles melt away
[A5]Aaaaaaa-[G5]aaaaaaa
[F5]He uses fire but his [E5]robe looks so gay

(Guitar solo)

[A5]So if you're embarrassed and you [E5]hang your head in shame
You'd [G5]like an opportunity to [D5]redeem your worthy name
[A5]Well just remember this: [E5]when next you look to kill
That a [G5]man who's truly skilled can [D5]look quite good in twill

So [A5]why, I ask, it just [G5]doesn't make much sense
That a [F5]man of my stature should [E5]have to wear a dress
I mean [A5]what, may I inquire, were you [G5]thinking on that day
When you [F5]conjured up for a man like me a [E5]robe that looks so gay

[A5]Aaaaaaa-[G5]aaaaaaa
[F5]Sit right back and your [E5]troubles melt away
[A5]Aaaaaaa-[G5]aaaaaaa
[F5]He uses fire but his [E5]robe looks so gay

[A5]~

If you've been in here the past weeks, you've probably noticed that the page has taken insanely much time to load. I've reduced the images and every time an image is uploaded to the blog, it'll be resized for more convenience. Should you click the image links, it'll be blown up to full size.

Also, I've changed the font to Tahoma instead of Calibri. First of all, not many had Calibri installed, and should you have it and not have any ClearType-alike effects on, the results were horrifying. Thus we now have Tahoma, and I think the blog looks quite nice with that too.

As always, if you find bugs, feel free to post them. :-)

EDIT: I felt quite effective this morning, so I made comment names and websites cookie based, meaning that if you post a comment here, it'll save name and website in cookies for 30 days, replenishing every time you post a comment. The spam check still applies, though.

Me and Mulvan figured that we'd destroy our (non existing) reputation with the Steamwheedle Cartel to get some nice pirate gear and titles. After about 4 hours of slaying the guards and inhabitants of Booty Bay, we achieved our goal.

After having some wipes, mostly due to poor gear and lack of stamina and DPS, I figured I'd try another attempt at Onyxia yesterday since I've gotten some upgrades lately. It went awesomely well, and down she fell. Quite awesome really. :)