Blog Archive: December 2022

Another awesome holiday weekend has been recorded, this time we had a road trip to Bakuriani, staying in a lovely log house with fine cuisine. Winter fun, attractions, gifts, and a lot of fun with drones. Made my first real - flythrough. December 23-25, 2022 Enjoy the video and thumbs up!

After successfully launching the TerraM token on the Solana blockchain, I was looking for markets to list the token. That's how I found Raydium. I like the Raydium network because it was relatively easy to create a USDC/TerraM market and start providing liquidity for TerramM coin. As being new to Raydium (and Solana…

In this article, I will share details on how I obtained a tourist permit for flying a drone in Israel at the end of 2022. We booked a short one-week trip to the State of Israel for the 2022/2023 New Year celebrations. I have my DJI Mavic Air 2 drone and I thought it would be cool to bring back some drone memory from…

Unlike the previous months, January 2023 data for best-selling laptops might seem skewed,  Apple has given up #1 to the Lenovo Ideapad 3 laptop.   The explanation is simple - Holiday season, with increased laptop purchasing, many good bargain deals Lenovo, ASUS, Acer, HP, and Apple are the laptop brands among the…

At the end of December 2022, I minted 10,000 TerraM coins with an aim to raise $10,000 for covered call writing on Ethereum. TerraM coin has been on the blockchain for just some mere 2 weeks and has already raised about 13% of our total goal, for truth's sake, the largest investor still am I. Nevertheless, the funds…

At the start of December 2022, I minted 10,000 TerraM tokens on the Solana blockchain, tokens are available for sale on the Raydium decentralized market. Update: A Step-by-Step Guide to Buying TerraM Tokens via Raydium AMMIn this article, I will provide a brief tutorial on how some, perhaps you, could buy TerraM…

It has been recently since I minted the first 10,000 tokens for TerraM coin on the Solana network. The launch has been very successful and the token is growing, so far we have been able to list it already on the Raydium pool, also tried to list it on CoinGeckom but due to the lack of trading activity got rejected so…

AMP for Drupal is a really powerful module, that can give your Drupal-powered website an impressive website traffic boost. But it will only work if there are no AMP-related issues - like Custom Javascript error from the Google Analytics module.  I have been using Drupal AMP since 2016 or 2017 but stopped using it…

For most of my crypto ventures, I have been dealing with Coinbase and my bank account in the EU, which supports SEPA payments. Most of the time, I've been happy with the existing setup. When dealing with crypto in Georgia in GEL currency I have been skeptical or simply not in a real need for it - I know there exist a…

Life and Business in Georgia - or another awesome weekend has been recorded - Together with a business partner from Canada exploring construction sites in Tbilisi, building relationships while hiking around Turtle lake, and sipping hot wine with Guliani. Fun with Santa and his socks. Thumbs up and enjoy!

At the start of December 2022, Uday, a business partner from Canada arrived in Tbilisi, and we went together to the Meti office in Saburtalo to meet with the developers and sign the documents on-site (we already had them electronically). After the meeting with the developers, we went to the actual construction site in…

Pullman Tbilisi Axis Towers Wellness Center is located in Vake (37M Ilia Chavchavadze Avenue) on the 6th floor at Axis Tower. It has a 25 meters heated indoor pool with a retractable roof, sauna, steam room, gym (more like a fitness), spa treatment rooms, and a lounge. We booked an unlimited membership here for one…

It has been already several years since I have been originally thinking of launching a custom crypto token. For most of the time, I was thinking about issuing smart contracts on the Ethereum network. Probably a high price for minting on the ETH network and the additional learning curve kept me back most of the time…

I'm raising $10,000 for the covered call crypto fund. For the past several years I've been trading and investing in crypto with mixed success. I've made my gains and taken my losses.  Covered Calls with crypto have been one of the hardest to learn -and I'm still learning. Over the years I've realized - making money…

In this article, you will learn how to set up a webserver for serving Drupal websites running with Nginx, PHP-FPM 8.1, MySQL, and phpMyAdmin on Ubuntu 22.04 For the following tutorial, I used very much the information from my previous guide with Ubuntu 18.04, but I decided to rewrite it for Ubuntu 22.04 version as it…

Welcome to the #1 renewed blog traffic and income reports covering blog traffic and earnings/expenses for November 2022. It has been already 7 years since my latest blog traffic and income report. As I enjoyed them back in 2014-2015, and because both the blog traffic and income have decreased significantly in the…

Intel Core i9 processor-powered laptops have already established their authority among gaming laptops, now gaining momentum among creators. Without much hesitation, I will say that I9 is going to rock in 2023 too. Intel Core i9-powered laptops come with a price attached. You should be willing to spend about $1,500-$…

In this article, I will keep some notes on how I accessed an "inaccessible" Linode over SSH using Rescue mode. Brief background: More than 10 years ago (in 2012) I did set up a virtual server for XTRF translation management software, back then I choose freshly released Debian 6 (which reached its end of Life back in…