Blog Archive: August 2018

So you want to start a travel blog and now you are wondering what should you do next? I must admit, for me, the travel niche has been the hardest. On the other hand, I've been making a decent income from booking affiliate and private tours…

I have been operating a GPU ETH mining rig since the December 2017, the total cost so far to build it has been $1,661. That's a lot of money for just ~ 58MH/s hashing power. Now, things were different back in December 2017, let's see how…

On August 27, 2018 I bought additional 3 ETC coins from Coinbase, paying EUR 10.8 per coin. ETC stands for Ethereum Classic. ETC has been on my radar since December 2017, and actually using my mining rig I have mined couple of coins of ETC…

A couple of days ago I decided to give it a try to a dropshipping business and launched a watch store on Shopify - watcheson.sale After playing around with Shopify and trying to figure out which payment gateway I should enable for card…

Intel Core i9 processors are gaining momentum in 2022, and seems they are going to rock in 2023 Top 15 Gaming and Creator Laptops with Intel Core i9 2023 With their high number of cores, high power draw, high thermal output, high…

A time ago I opened a brokerage account with Lynx Broker, which turns out is affiliated with Interactive Brokers. As I opened my account from Europe, by default my base currency was set to EUR, which in fact is nice and neat, as SEPA…

The other morning I faced an issue Could not complete the Save As command because there is not enough memory (RAM)" while trying to save a .pdf files using Adobe Photoshop. I spent a couple of hours before finally found the solution: The…

Now, this is an interesting story - we didn't meet any wild horses tonight, but found some great information. At least I did. It turns out, wild horses have been living here just since 1999 when WWF-Latvia started to stimulate the return…

On August 2, 2018, I bought 35 shares of Cornerstone Strategic Value Fund Inc. (CLM ) at $14.28 per share. With its monthly dividend of 0.2365 cents per share, this latest buy has a dividend yield of 19.87% and will pay me us $8.28 every…

Europa City Amrita Hotel is located in the centre of Liepāja. We booked this 4-star hotel in mid-August 2018 and stayed here for two nights in total paying EUR ~110. The 4-star hotel offers rooms with a flat-screen TV with cable channels,…