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2017-11-042017-11-05

My new Tier 10s in World of Tanks

So, I have decided to maybe put most of my “news things” here on my website instead of having it spread out on social media platforms so much.

I will continue to post random pictures and stuff on both Facebook and Instagram I guess, but certain things will be mainly done here at korp.no.

One thing I will start posting here are gaming related posts. I’ve had a break from World of Tanks, but started playing it a bit a again a couple of weeks ago. I was lucky the conversion-to-free-xp-ratio was buffed during this time, so I converted what I had (and played a little bit) and now I have two more Tier 10 tanks. Open-mouthed smile

These are the two new ones:

Here they are on the techtree, and it also shows my other Tier 10 tanks:

A while back I only needed two Tier 10s to complete the German techtree, but Wargaming did some changes so there are more tanks now. I’m back at needing two now though. Winking smile

2017-10-182018-04-07

Some upgrades and a little snafu

Upgrading to HTTPS is something I’ve wanted to check out for some time now, and I happened to get a newsletter from my ISP today, where they described it as a very simple thing to do. Ahead to the adminpage I went and indeed, it was very easy, and just an hour or so wait until the DNS and everything was updated. Open-mouthed smile

Unfortunately I managed to reset the blog (WordPress), so there will be some fixing-up in the coming week or so. Thankfully I did take a backup, so all the information and links are back already. Smile

I might use the default theme since it looks so much better than the last time I looked at it.

I may also remove some posts, due to images being gone, but I will try to fix some of them as well, since this blog (how little it may be) carry a historic significance for me.

2017-08-292017-10-18

Va-vooom! My current dl/ul speed

After I upgraded to fiber and the ISP got their shit together, it has been a blast really. Now we have changed the WiFi Router as well, and that seem to have really done the trick on our internal network.

Just to humour myself I did a speedtest, and it has increased a tad from the last time I did it. Regardless, it’s pretty fast! 🙂

2017-08-15

Concert: Raga Rockers

Audience: Approx. 1000

Venue: Jessheim Torg, Jessheim, Ullensaker, Norway

Support: Splitter Pine, Fat Fred and the Possumhunters

A couple of years ago I was crowdfunding “Sannhet på boks”, a boxset where all the songs by Raga Rockers were covered by known and unknown Norwegian bands and artists. I also got a ticket for the release show of the boxset, and it would’ve been my chance to see Raga Rockers (among others) live for the first time ever.

However, that’s not how it went down. I somehow managed to get sick (yet again around that time of my life), and had to skip the concert. So, when I saw they were coming to my homecity I just had to go watch them…

It happened last Saturday (August 12th), and it was a really good concert despite really heavy rain. Some impressions and sounds can be heard and seen in the video below. I was kinda cold, slightly drunk, and I was really into the music, so my cam is even more shaky than usual. Open-mouthed smile The heavy rainy weather can be easily seen in the last part of the video, which contain excerpts of the three bands that had concerts that evening. I would’ve filmed more Raga Rockers if it wasn’t for the poor weather.

Oh, and by the way – the boxset “Sannhet på boks” is really damn good, and I still enjoy plenty of songs from it occasionally. Smile

2017-06-032017-11-05

Scrobbling on last.fm again

So, after quiet some time, I’m finally back to scrobbling on last.fm. I’ve been gone mostly due to the changes they did there, it was very messy for some time.

I’ve installed it on my Desktop PC and Kodi (nVidia Shield), but the one on Kodi is not working it seems.

I’ve, officially, had last.fm since 2007, and below are my yearly scrobbles since I started.

The link to my last.fm profile is this: https://www.last.fm/user/Pwrmad

2016-12-23

Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven read by Neil Gaiman

This is a small poem by Edgar Allan Poe, and it’s read by none other than Neil Gaiman.

This poem has always been a favourite of mine, and is partially the reason for the name of this site – and also for a tattoo I got. The setting in the video is very nice, and is very fitting for the winter solstice.

God jul!

2016-10-30

Concert: Katatonia

Audience: Approx. 600

This is Katatonia’s Dead Letters, from the album Dead End Kings that they performed at Pumpehuset in Copenhagen, Denmark on October 26th, 2016. An awesome song, but the concert wasn’t all too good for me. I was standing far in the back, so it’s very noisy and people were talking like crazy.

I was standing in the back because I wasn’t feeling well at this concert. Was ridden by a cold that has lasted for two weeks. It seem to finally have lost it’s grip completely today though. Yay! 😀 Because of the cold I had to leave the concert rather early, which is something I rarely do. If I leave a concert early it’s only to catch a train or something.

Don’t remember who the support bands were, but there were two of them, and I didn’t see any of them.

2016-10-24

Concert: Kent The Band

Audience: Approx. 9000

So, Kent announced earlier this year they were calling it quits, and wanted to end the whole thing with a new album, a best of album and a farewell tour.

The first concert (October 22nd) in Oslo Spektrum was sold out before I could get a ticket, but a few days later they announced another concert the day after. I easily got a ticket for the latter, and got a really good seat (I prefer to sit in Oslo Spektrum if I get a good seat), and yesterday was the day.

It was a simple yet professional concert, and the first hour went by like it was 5 minutes. It had a bunch of hits, but I guess they could’ve chosen more from their older albums. Mostly since I haven’t been listening much to the new one yet. 😀 Overall the concert lasted for about 2 hours and 20 minutes, so it was a long one. Well worth the steep ticket price of 650 NOK actually.

Speaking of albums; I bought the new album, and the recently released double-CD Best Of collection – which contain four new songs as well. Additionally I bought a farewell tour t-shirt.

I recorded the whole intro and the first song, “999”, and you can see it below. Note that the lyrics are in Swedish.

2016-10-16

Concert: Seigmen (Supp.: Dunderbeist, Sørgekåpe)

Audience: Approx. 2000

Seigmen has always been my favourite band singing in Norwegian. Granted, their previous album (Radiowaves) was in English, and Metropolis (the album before Radiowaves) was also released as an English Edition (Grandmaster Recordings). However, their main language, and most popular songs has Norwegian lyrics.

I became a fan of these guys back in 1994 when the Hjernen er alene EP was released. Didn’t give it much thought or listening at first, but it amounted to be the band I’ve liked the most, who are singing in Norwegian that is.

I have been to more concerts with these guys than I can count, and have no overview of how many it has been really. Within one week, while studying, I went to three concerts with them even. Good times! 🙂 I guess I’ve attended between 30-40 concerts since the 90s.

After Radiowaves was released and a tour they went on a long hiatus, with just a few reunion concerts, until they released a new album in 2015. Here’s a recording I made from their first official concert after they started up again. It’s the entire intro, and then some excerpts from throughout the concert.

I bought a bunch of stuff there too:

T-shirt
Live DVD (signed)
Necklace with the logo. It wasn’t cheap! 😉

Seigmen 2015-04-10

2016-10-13

Concert: Sonata Arctica (Supp.: Twilight Force)

Audience: Approx. 600

I always want to try new things, and this time I wanted to check out a concert abroad. Sonata Arctica is first up, and the gold nugget here is that I’ve never seen them live before. I used to listen to this band a lot 10+ years ago, so it was about damn time I got to see them. 🙂

The concert was only a few days ago (October 11th) at Pumpehuset in Copenhagen, Denmark – and I still have the whole thing in my head and body. It was an excellent concert, with me standing right in front of the stage. That’s why the filming is like this as well (not widescreen), because I couldn’t fit the guys into the screen otherwise. XD

You can see the setlist at the beginning of the video below, which is Fullmoon in its entirety, and a small excerpt of Wolves Die Young. Was to busy watching the show that I didn’t film that much.

Support was Twilight Force, and it was a bunch of fun to see them as well as I’ve never heard them before. They had some classic power metal going on, and I will definitely check them out further.

They dropped a new video just before the show (they released the album The Ninth Hour only a few days ago), and the new tunes were really good live. Will check out the new CD too since I got it at the concert.