Bitcoin have a good start this week of October 12th $250s

Yesterday October 12th Bitcoin price a little shy from 250. Today October 13th 2015, Bitcoin reaches $250 that we haven’t seen for weeks. A few months ago Bitcoin price was at $340, it brought a lot of joy, but then it didn’t last long.

Speculation earlier this year, Bitcoin will reach $500 by end of 2016. Well, that for sure is a possibility, and I hope it does because I do have some Bitcoin saving 🙂 $500 will not make me rich, but at least I will have more money than now. Even if Bitcoin reached $1000 again, I wouldn’t be rich either because I didn’t save any of my Bitcoin much until the price dropped and I don’t see the point of mining and selling.

Yes, I am one of the early Bitcoin mining people, mine Bitcoin with a computer CPU, gradually went on to GPU and then to ASIC, today it’s a total loss if anyone even mine Bitcoin. Bitcoin now a day are for commercial, even if you have free electricity, it’s not going to help much.

Now going back to the price of Bitcoin have a good start this week, the question is, will it hold? I don’t think so to be honest with you. I want to be optimistic, but I’ve went through this path before. Most likely it will hang around $250 then start to drop back to the $240, however I’m very optimistic that Bitcoin price will not go down to $100 as I think that will be the end of Bitcoin if no one jump in and buy Bitcoin at such low price. I don’t think that will happen because a lot of future technology development designed for Bitcoin, or have Bitcoin in mind.

I’ve been so ill lately with some sort of food poisoning maybe

Starting Thursday night, I feel a little bit warm small fever and then throughout the night the fever got worse and then Friday severe headache, couldn’t eat anything that whole day.

Friday night didn’t much any better then start to have diarrhea, that’s when I know it got to be it, it’s what I’ve eaten the previous day. Saturday morning, the fever was gone, but headache was off and on, dizzy sometime but I was able to do some work around the house. However diarrhea still a problem.

I noticed during the later stage if I get up and walk or do something I feel fine, but then as soon as I sat down or lie down that’s when it hit me again. Sunday got better, but still have a little of diarrhea.

Now Monday, I was able to work, and diarrhea appears to decrease and I almost made a mistake again by eaten food that have left outside for over 24 hours, especially soup and it has strange stinky smell, I thought I could boil it and could be good again, but I don’t think that’s a good idea, when it’s bad, it’s bad, doesn’t matter if you recook, reboil those bad bacteria or whatever still there.

Amazon Fire Phone did not silent when I answer a phone call

Which playing youtube video, my Amazon Fire Phone, I click answered but the music audio youtube video did not pause or go silent. I think this is another flaw on Amazon Fire Phone. This should be standard functionality, as like other OS such as Android and IOS have this feature where when playing a video on youtube or music app, if you answer the phone call, the player or audio will go silent or pause. This is by default.

Now I think I know why a lot of tech people don’t recommend this phone, but if you want it because of the cheap price, then get it unlocked, that way you can unlock and then install CM11 (Cyanogen Mod 11) with the latest Android operating system, this way you can use any android apps and off course android functionality.

Just got $25 cashback from fatwallet

Just got another $25 cashback from fatwallet. I’ve been using fatwallet to redirect me to many online retail store website to buy stuff, everything basically. So I get cashback for Fatwallet, and another cashback on my credit card, and if you’re lucky you get more cashback from your favorite store membership, it’s a win win situation 🙂

I know $25 isn’t much, but it just replaced my broken GPS and Dashcam which had just been robbed earlier today. The funny thing is the thieve(s) left something in my car that is as valuable, because he/she probably forgot about it while trying to get away. The thieve(s) must have been happy to get into my car because it was unlock, all other cars in the neighborhood probably locked, just mine isn’t 🙂 I welcome all thieve(s) to my car, because I got nothing 🙂

My family van car got robbed and trashed inside the van

Well it wasn’t too bad, but the last time this occurred was about 5 to 6 years ago to my wife’s brother car parked on the street. This is a new home development area, and I’ve been here about 6 years and this is the second time I’ve encountered this incident, this time directly with my family car van.

I woke up this morning, open the garage, went into the van to start the car and immediately I noticed paper work and car manual were scattered everywhere in the van, even in the back seats. Then I noticed the GPS and Dashcam were missing. Then I realized I’ve been robbed. Luckily the dashcam camera is cheap china made and probably doesn’t work anymore, so I price it at $5 because I bought it at $15. The GPS was an old Magellan, bought refurbished for $50 and since it hasn’t been working well, I price it at $20 or lower since the suction cup is broken as well. Overall loss of $35, not too bad.

I should have done better to protect my belonging. Lately I’ve been protecting the family inside the house by doing multiple check each night ensure all doors and windows are locked. However outside the house, I didn’t pay much attention, and never really locked my van because there isn’t anything valuable in it.

Look like I will be spending time to step it up a notch! I will be installing 3 automatic light timer to operate from dust to dawn. I could have use the automatic day light sensor but I don’t think that will last long or work well, since I’ve read review on that and used it before. Digital timer switch doesn’t have much good feedback either. The only alternative is to get mechanical timer switch.

In addition to these, I will be installing at least one night time camera to record when motion is detected, need to be a good camera not cheap, otherwise it’s useless, buy cheap one for so if that’s the case.

A week into using my Amazon Fire phone

First of all, I would like to share my purchasing experience from Ebay. A seller sold these Amazon phones for $110 with Amazon Prime one year extension or new account. Well, it didn’t work. I got the Amazon Fire Phone from them, registered it and expect to see my Amazon prime updated to additional year, but nope, didn’t work.

I contacted the ebay seller, and I got a generic message indicated that they sold thousands of these phones and amazon prime all of a sudden terminated the contract or whatever reason don’t offer the Prime anymore. The seller even created a petition to get amazon to resume the prime membership for these phones. I’m thinking maybe the seller is specialized in refurbished phones, not Fire Phone, but maybe others also and sell them cheap online.  Phones looks good to me, just like new, can’t tell if it’s refurbished. Anyhow, after thinking for a while, I’ve decided to keep the phone and they supposed to refund me $25 as partial refund, will see how that go.

Now the phone. It’s limited on apps, but I think standard apps you might be looking for already there, but for sure a lot less than the Android, iPhones apps. Hopefully amazon will have more apps later. Now with an unlocked Amazon Fire Phone, you can Mod it to CM11 or so, latest Android OS, then you can run it just like any Android phone, so call Gapps (google apps, market place).

I think the phone is nice, sleek, a little thicker than the iphone 6, but look at the price, new one $139, versus iphone 6 new one $500. You get what you pay for as many people are saying. Would I recommend Fire Phone? not really, unless you got an unlocked version and Rooted it to CM11 (Cyanogen Mod) latest Android OS.

Scottrade Hacked?

There has been some hacking going on. Few days ago, T-Mobile especially from UK, data were compromised by hackers, some US based customers might be impacted also.

Then today, just now I’ve received an email from Scottrade, which I have a stock trading account there for a while, but not active for a while. It’s great that these companies are notifying the customers, but I think they could done better to prevent being hacked, data leakage and so on. Especially for Scottrade and any financial institution.

I haven’t read the detail of the hack, but I think it got to be some kind of linkage to insider job, tips, and so on. The hack could be from a team of hackers, utilizing all their social hacking knowledge and skills to obtain information for hack, a large well organized team maybe.

I have not heard of the “Anonymous” group hackers for a while, did they break up? or just have a new name. I thought they declared war against the ISIS? haven’t seen much activities on that.
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The Martian movie how did those raw fresh potatoes survived the trip from Earth to Mars?

I think there is a flaw to this movie “The Martian”. During the movie, the question I asked was, how does those potatoes survived the original trip from Earth to Mars? stayed fresh and raw and was able to root and grow.

So I’m home now and I went online to Google and research about it and it appears that potatoes will stay fresh for a maximum of 4 months with the right temperature and storage area. So how did NASA able to store the potatoes stay raw and fresh, and was able to re-grow? I’m thinking it might be possible, but I’m seeing those potatoes in the movie as raw and fresh like you just bought from the groceries market.

Maybe it’s like milk. Milk have a date stamp of must use by, or must sell by, but the truth is with the right temperature storage, then it could last several weeks after that date. So if we use the same concept as when the milk was bottled to the time of the date stamped and to the date it will actually go bad storing with the best most optimized environment it would double the amount of time. So I think it’s possible for those potatoes from the movie “The Martian” to last that long.

Got $6 eBay Bucks Certificate

Just got $6 eBay Bucks Certificate, and I suggest using it right away! immediately! because these certificate from ebay bucks will expire and sooner than you think. Chances are you may forget, and they will never ever issue you a new one, ever!

It had happened to me that they issued me a good $20 eBay Buck certificate to use, but I forgot about it and it’s gone. I tried to contact Ebay for a replacement one, but they said “no” no mercy, since that listed clearly under their Terms of Service agreement and you clicked to accept that agreement!

Now a day a lot business will pay you to shop at their store, including credit card companies and will pay you some cash back, either points to convert to cash or to gift cards to spend. Typically it’s all gift cards where you would need to spend it a specific store.