Archive for the 'Announcements' Category
New Zealand: Grid Tie Solar System Deals for April-May
April 16th, 2015For readers in NZ: The solar power company that I work for is discounting grid tie systems until 30 May 2015. I got an email from the CEO last night. It’s time for us to grab more market share. In addition to discounts on the hardware, you won’t have to pay: * The distributed generation […]
Cryptogon Earnings in February and March
April 9th, 2015Thanks to everyone who helped keep Cryptogon open in February and March. Total earnings in February came to $623.09. AD $5 AM $10 Amazon $379.82 Amazon.co.uk £7.27 Blacklisted News $25 DE $10 DS $25 Eileen $45 JH $5 JR $7.50 KH $15 KL $5 Pookie $75 TG $5 The total for March was $687.48. Amazon […]
Cyclone Pam
March 14th, 2015Cyclone Pam is coming through, so we’re almost certainly going to have our power cut. Hopefully, the transceiver that provides Internet access to our valley won’t be damaged. Our ISP just emailed and they’re saying that this storm is definitely packing winds strong enough to damage their transceivers. The worst of it for us will […]
Cryptogon Readers Send Donations in February
March 2nd, 2015Thank you. AM $10 DS $25 KL $5 KH $15 TG $5 DE $10 Eileen $45 AD $5 JH $5
Stopped Out of USO
February 10th, 2015Warning: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. I set a stop limit order to get me out of USO with a few cents gain in case it went down again. Well, that’s what happened early this morning. The picture on oil is more blurry now. I can see […]
Cryptogon Earnings from November 2014 to January 2015
February 8th, 2015I finally calculated earnings for Cryptogon over the last few month. For the period covering November 2014 to January 2015, total earnings came to $2249.58. Divide that by three and that’s $749.86 for each month. Thanks very much to everyone who helped keep Cryptogon going during this time.
Disclosure: I’m Long DBA
February 3rd, 2015Warning: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. Went long PowerShares DB Agriculture ETF (DBA) this morning.
Hardware Maintenance
January 16th, 2015This email is notification of planned hardware maintenance Friday morning, 16 January, 2015, between 00:00 hours and 4:00am MDT (UTC/GMT-6), for the server which hosts cryptogon.com. The maintenance will include approximately 45 minutes of downtime for your website while the server is powered down, the hardware changes are made, and the server is powered up […]
Disclosure: Long Oil
January 5th, 2015Warning: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. I bought United States Oil ETF (USO) this morning.
Monster Storm Probably Going to Take Out Our Electricity
December 13th, 2014We’re about to get dumped on really hard. The power is on now, but if history is any indication, it won’t be for long. The red blob will be over our house by around 4am NZ time. Anyway, no updates means that our electricity is out. — SEVERE WEATHER WARNING. ISSUED BY MetService AT 8:23 […]
