Next stop - Station Dubulti (B&W Photography)
Black and White (B&W) is not the part of my favorite photo techniques, but sometimes a good B&W can add some drama to a photo story.I don't call myself a drama expert (at least in photography), but I have tried in the past and sometimes love to experiment with this photo technique. See: Wandering In The Woods B&W PhotographyIn today's Piece of Life series - a single photo from my second 365 days photo project's second day - Next Stop - Station DubultiLonely sign at Jurmala beach in LatviaShot at the start of April 2018
Easter Egg Painting 2018
The Christ is risen! Though we already celebrated Easters last week, the Orthodox Church (including Georgia) is celebrating Easters on April 8th, 2018. In today's Piece of Life series - our already annual tradition - Easter egg painting (from the last week)Easter egg painting 2018Egg decor for 2018 Cat enjoying painted Easter eggsEaster egg and chocolate candy basket 2018Happy Easters!
Farewell to Winter (Sunrise at Jūrmala beach)
It was in the early April morning, I couldn't sleep, and decided to grab a camera and catch a lovely sunrise at the nearby Jūrmala beach. I remembered the times we use to live in Batumi, Georgia and went out for a walk just shortly before sunrise. Jūrmala ain't no Batumi, but still, can I get some mood out of it?After this morning's short photo walk I decided to start my second 365 days photo challenge, that said - Farewell to Winter.Jūrmala beach before sunriseAs they say, to make an interesting landscape, you should include a strong foreground. I took what I got this morning.Reflections on waterAnother interesting photo element - reflections.Melting iceStrong foreground, sunrise…
March 2018 Dividend Income Report - $52.88
March is finally over. The last March was really uncomfortable and in fact, it was the first month from my short investor experience when my total net worth actually decreased. Many things happened to my portfolio last month, in total, I lost about $3,000 in value for crypto investments. One company from the Nasdaq Baltics announced its intentions leaving the exchange.When writing these dividend income reports, I usually love to write how I enjoy doing nothing much and still get a nice passive income at the end of the month. Now, in the case of the last March, this is not the case. And I'm glad March is finally over. That said, welcome to the eleventh (#11) dividend income …
Mintos.com Peer to Peer Lending Review 2018
I first heard about Mintos.com peer to peer lending marketplace back in 2016, starting with 2017 I decided to invest some chunk of money on this platform.Now in 2018, Mintos.com is the top performing passive income revenue stream for me.I keep investing also in stocks, mutual funds, and cryptocurrencies. At the end of Q1 2018, mintos.com took the second largest position (after stocks) in my portfolio with 28.6% of my funds invested in Mintos.com marketplace.Investment portfolio structure at the end of Q1 2018The overall impact on the total portfolio for Mintos has decreased from all time height at 100% in January 2017 to little less than 30% at the end of Q1 2018. And I'…
Documentary Around the World by Graf Zeppelin (1929 footage)
Documentary Around the World by Zeppelin is a film by Dutch director Ditteke Mensink made first aired on BBC Four in 2010.
This was one of the most interesting and quality films I've watched lately. The story is about Graf Zeppelin flight around the world in 1929. The route is following New York - Friedrichshafen - Moscow (didn't stop here) - Tokyo - Los Angeles - New York.
The story is told through the letters and diaries of Lady Grace Drummond-Hay
In 1929, for the first time in history, a Graf Zeppelin circumnavigated the globe. Beneath the enormous airship hung a gondola to accommodate the lucky passengers and crew for the duration of the 21-day voyage…
Learn to Read Georgian in 5 Days
Strange, how it works - It was on a lazy Saturday afternoon when I finally decided to buy a Russian literature's classic - War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. While reading this book I decided to launch a new topic series on the blog - Bookshelf, keeping notes and sharing books I've read.
While browsing Amazon's store online accidentally I found this great learning guide - Learn to Read Georgian in 5 Days by Irakli Aleksidze. The price for Kindle Editon was just $3.99 and after reading a free preview on Amazon I thought - hmm, it's tempting to learn Georgian Script in 5 days.
Disclosure: This article contains affiliate links to Amazon.com, by clicking on links on…
Hiking Trails in Kemeri National Park (Near Forest House)
Kemeri National Park in Latvia is special for its great biological diversity, the unique Kemeri Bog, mineral waters and therapeutic mud found here.It was on a lazy Sunday afternoon we decided to visit Kemeri National Park, as we had no idea what exactly to look for, we decided to make a stop at first "look-a-like" place, so we ended at Forest House, located some 45km from nations capital Riga.I was equipped with my Canon DSRL camera and in a good mood to make some panoramic photos here:Forest House in Kemeri National ParkRough translation from Latvian about Forest House (Meža māja)The Nature Education Center "Meža māja" is located on the banks of the Vēršupīte, surrounded by…
Palios Mylos Restaurant Review near Argiroupoli Springs, Crete
Ahh, I love these lovely roadside cafeterias which are hard to locate, after visiting and leaving, on the map. This time I was lucky enough and turned out I had pictured the name of this place in Greek. A bit patience and usage of Greek language transliteration and here you go - found both the name and location of this place, meet Palios Mylos Restaurant near Argiroupoli Springs, Crete.Visited back in June 2017. Now it's hard to recall exact our route back then, but most probably we arrived here somewhere from Triopetra area. The restaurant is located next to the Argiroupoli Springs some 27 km southwest of Rethymnon on the slopes of the…
February 2018 Dividend Income Report - $62.89
Time flies and so did last February disappeared like a flicker. Now it's time to look back and see how did it go for me in terms of dividend income.February marks already the tenth (#10) dividend income report, covering earnings I've made from dividend-paying stocks, peer to peer lending (both fiat and cryptocurrencies)Surprisingly, but February turned out much better than I thought before - after a few e-mail and support tickets forth and back with bank and fund I was looking to have in my portfolio since August 2017, I finally managed to add this fund to my portfolio. The fund dividends helped to boost a little bit dividend income in February, and…
Winter near The Baltic Sea (Dubulti beach, Jūrmala)
In today's Piece of Life series, a couple of HDR's from the Baltic sea (more precisely Dubulti beach in Jūrmala, Latvia)Pinewoods, frozen sea and cold fresh air.Frozen Baltic seaWould love to return here in Summer.Restaurant Orizonte in Dubulti beachPinewoods near Dubulti beach
Top 20 Aluminium Chassis Notebook / Laptop Computers
As they say, Aluminum / Metallic chassis laptops are more durable than plastic ones.Indeed the surrounding chassis matters, but still when choosing an aluminum chassis laptop don't forget to see what's inside the chassis, like the graphics card, processor, RAM, and of course HDD.In today's article, I've listed the TOP 20 bestselling aluminum chassis laptops on Amazon. Following laptop/notebook manufacturers is a popular user choice for aluminum chassis - Samsung, Acer, Lenovo, ASUS, DELL, The Razer Blade, and HP.Most Aluminum chassis laptops come with the price attached and nowadays there are both traditional, touchscreen, and of course gaming laptops surrounded by metallic cases…
Winter in Bākūži 2 - 2018
A couple of weeks ago I made a couple of HDR's back at Bākūži (Bākūži Winter 2018), despite it was still a winter, we had little to no snow back then. Now at the end of February 2018, I made some more photos - let's say this - there is still room to grow to reach the levels of the fairytale in Tbilisi, but still lovely.Snow, frozen pond, and lonely rock garden see it for yourselfCar parked next to the pondPile of firewoodStill needs to be processedRock garden in WinterThe houseStill, a lot to do :)
How To Verify Skype Account Without US Credit Card (Microsoft Account Verification)
In today's article, I'll share my experience how I managed to verify my age for Skype account. It all started that one day I was not able to login to my skype account, which I have been using for more than 10 years already.
It turned out Skype / Microsoft thought I'm a child, as apparently in my Skype account I had entered my birth year as 2008. Now back in 2008, it didn't seem an issue. Since Microsoft acquired Skype back in 2011, apparently, some new rules have been pointed out and it was on the February 2018, Skype started to think I'm a child. I was not able to login to my account, even despite I've been a paid subscriber to Skype OUT
Trying to Google out some solution for…
How To Setup Gekko BTC Trading Bot on VPS (Ubuntu 16.04) with GUI (Vultr.com)
Gekko is a free and open source Bitcoin TA trading and backtesting platform that connects to popular Bitcoin exchanges. It is written in javascript and runs on nodejs
For the past couple of days I've been playing around with Gekko trading bot installed on my laptop (Windows 10), I have made a few trades and experimented with a couple of strategies. First impressions are promising. See: Simple BTC Trading Bot Gekko - First Impressions
Running a trading bot on a laptop is fun, but if you are looking for a bot 24/7monitoring market and executing trades, either you should keep your PC turned on 24/7 or you could set up a cheap VPS and setup bot on it. …
How to send international fax to USA using Faxapp
Think fax is outdated? Think twice, fax is still popular in certain business areas, and fax is kind of popular in the United States. I believe the last time I have seen an actual fax machine in work was back in 1994. Now 24 years later at one stage I thought, it would be good if I would have a fax machine in 2018.
I had to send a fax confirming my identity to the Microsoft Corp. Keep reading to learn how to send an international fax without having a fax machine.
Turns out, there are several online apps allowing to send a fax from the web, after a quick research I decided to give it a try for Faxapp.
Faxapp
Send faxes without a landline to a "classic" fax machine. You’ll get your…
Simple BTC Trading Bot Gekko - First Impressions
The idea of using a bitcoin trading bot comes up just shortly I decided to trade up from 0.03 to 0.05 BTC. In the past, I've been using Coinlend bot to lend free coins on exchanges and earn some little interest.
Doing a quick google search I found a few bitcoin bot traders, most come with a price, but as I wanted to test how these bots actually work I continued my searches and found free bitcoin bot trader - Gekko. Setting up this bot will be simple for a tech-savvy person, but might be a daunting task for a novice, as bot asks to install nodejs and in fact, it took me some 4 hours to set up this bot, as there were some issues (more on that at the end of this article…
Ethereum (and other altcoin) mining review after 2 months in 2018
February 16 marks a small 2-month anniversary since I've started to mine Ethereum and others altcoins. In today's article let's take a quick review and try to understand is GPU mining still profitable in 2018?It all started with a FOMO back in December 2017, after successful second part of the year of investments in crypto, I decided to build a 12-GPU mining rig.Currently, I've invested $1,661 in this mining rig and after 2 months of operations, the current ROI is 12.53% (not counting in cost for electricity). Meaning that in past two months I've mined coins worth of $208.05.I have experimented both with different GPU cards and different coins. Here are coins I've mined…
How To Mine EXP (Expanse) with SMOS
A couple of days ago I shared a quick tutorial on how to mine ETC (Ethereum Classic) with SMOS (Simple Mining OS), as there is an upcoming ETC Callisto airdrop happening, the idea to pre-mine couple of ETC's sounded tempting to me. Now, as I've been using a mixed AMD + NVIDIA mining rig, to get most of it, I'm left using Claymore's dual miner, which just recently released version 11.0 , and I decided to test it with some new coin, after a quick google search I found a quite a few Ethash based coins (good for Claymore's miner) and this time my attention got the EXP (expanse) coin. Reason is quite simple, EXP is listed on Poloniex.com exchange, which means following - I…
How To Mine ETC (Ethereum Classic) with SimpleMining OS
For the past couple of weeks I've been experimenting with crypto mining and started with Claymore's dual miner to learn that I can dual mine both Ethereum and Siacoin out of the box, I put my mining rig as it is and let the machine to mine coins for me. See: I'm Making $0.98 Per Day By Mining Ethereum and Siacoin, and I want MORE!Meanwhile, in crypto space, a lot has happened, and I decided to explore my options to mine some other coins using SimpleMining OS, which IMHO is awesome.At the end of January, it started to look that mining Siacoin is not any more profitable with gpu's (Is It Profitable Mining Siacoin (SC) in 2018?) and I went solo mining Ethereum …