tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17719784Sat, 17 Jan 2009 20:18:41 +0000A bit of everything...http://newel.dk/noreply@blogger.com (Dennis)Blogger147125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17719784.post-4608002652847944988Sat, 03 Jan 2009 20:02:00 +00002009-01-03T21:07:12.526+01:00After many years of waiting, and a year set aside for work, we're finally in Vancouver. We've found an apartment close to the beach, we've bought a car and we had a great time playing in the snow on the local mountain. It's snowing quite a bit at the moment (a rare thing in Vancouver they keep telling us) and we're off to down-town to get a few more things.http://newel.dk/2009/01/new-years-in-vancouver.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dennis)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17719784.post-220326580168429218Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:50:00 +00002008-09-29T17:59:39.104+02:00...but yet I can't help myself laughing. Maybe it's because the money is already lost, but for some reason I find it amusing that KGLJ has managed to fall 90% since the marked opened just few hours ago! My initial investment of $260 now has a market value of just $1 - and that's if I could find a buyer. It's not exactly costing me any money to hold them and even though it wouldn't cost me http://newel.dk/2008/09/kglj-not-even-funny.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dennis)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17719784.post-698404229052381125Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:53:00 +00002008-09-19T15:54:53.354+02:00Google may be expanding into all sorts of areas, but at least they still have a sense of humor: try to google like a pirate :)http://newel.dk/2008/09/at-least-they-have-humor.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dennis)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17719784.post-7141391504329694795Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:07:00 +00002008-04-28T20:07:46.095+02:00I've made a small change to the portfolio, partly due to the current rally and partly to my discovery of the "Dogs of the Dow" trading strategy.First change was to sell Apple. It might seem nuts but my thinking is this: Apple is very dependant on consumer spending and even though the market is doing well these days and almost everything is going up in price, I don't think we're over the worst yethttp://newel.dk/2008/04/re-shuffling-portfolio.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dennis)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17719784.post-3770426632007051445Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:43:00 +00002008-04-14T20:43:39.883+02:00I bought a small stake in these guys today as I think they have a great potential. I only had about $60 to spend so I ended up with only 15 shares. Naturally the price just had to fall today, but that doesn't matter too much...in a short while it should hopefully be up a lot more to cover it. The company has licensed a special method of converting various types of cellulose material from the "http://newel.dk/2008/04/bluefire-ethanol-fuels-bfre.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dennis)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17719784.post-1643889476477855691Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:21:00 +00002008-04-10T19:12:56.287+02:00I was just signing up for http://www.rememberthemilk.com/ (online todo list) when i noticed this: Instead of asking the user which date format to use, where they live or something else, they ask a simple question to determine a preference that sometimes is made too complicated. I haven't got any good examples of other online apps that have asked the same question, but just consider the options http://newel.dk/2008/04/case-of-good-design-and-usability.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dennis)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17719784.post-3881720458382328213Tue, 08 Apr 2008 07:58:00 +00002008-04-08T09:58:48.104+02:00I've had my Countrywide shares for a short while now (longer than some of my other shares though) and have, agaings all normal advice, kept them in the hope that the value will rise again later, so I won't end up loosing a lot of money on them. My plan was to dump them once they got to the same price as I bought them at, but according to this article, that's the very worst thing I can do. http://newel.dk/2008/04/when-not-to-sell.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dennis)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17719784.post-6232661763332583570Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:14:00 +00002008-04-01T18:19:58.246+02:00All of the sudden gold just tanked!? That was not what I had planned, it was supposed to pass to $1000 mark and keep going. At least up to around $1200-1300...That's not all though, Goldspring is now below what I bought at, Starbucks haven't recovered yet and neither have Boeing - well the two latter probably wont recover for a very long time...unless Boeing can somehow get a big contract to http://newel.dk/2008/04/that-wasnt-supposed-to-happen.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dennis)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17719784.post-2777871213597864717Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:40:00 +00002008-04-01T18:17:49.418+02:00What!?!?!I just saw this bit of news (full news story here) but only because I couldn't believe what had happened to my KGLJ stocks: They've lost 62% since I bought them! not something I had expected, but then again, I guess no one expected a company's identity to be stolen?One thing is that someone got hold of 26 companies' identity numbers (CUSIP numbers), another thing is that they were http://newel.dk/2008/03/sec-suspends-trading-of-kingslake.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dennis)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17719784.post-1005097379935014343Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:18:00 +00002008-03-12T11:19:35.584+01:00My portfolio has taken a bit of a hit over these last days. From being up $100+ I was down $160+ yesterday. This is mainly due to Boeing loosing the big defence contract, Countrywide falling even more than before and Kingslake dipping almost 12%.Otherwise nothing much have changed...well except for the rest of my stocks falling slightly. I find my self going long instead of the short momentum http://newel.dk/2008/03/taking-hit.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dennis)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17719784.post-923674931486109601Fri, 07 Mar 2008 09:03:00 +00002008-03-07T10:03:12.426+01:00This (OTCBB:SYBD) is the sort of stock that I'm hoping to find...just a few days sooner than this. They have a really interesting product with lots of potential, and they just had a windfall with four separate grants worth about $3.5m making the share price shoot up. Unfortunately they're not very easy to find, though I still have hopes for GSPG and KGLJ... http://newel.dk/2008/03/pennystocks.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dennis)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17719784.post-369938679238237350Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:21:00 +00002008-03-06T17:21:08.352+01:00Just found this on money.cnn.com: "Countrywide (CFC) said last week that 90-day delinquency rates in its $28.42 billion adjustable rate mortgage portfolio climbed more than 900% from a year earlier, up to 5.4% from 0.6% during the same period last year. The lender also warned that 71% of its ARM borrowers are making only the minimum payment allowed -- and that 80% of those loans had not http://newel.dk/2008/03/no-wonder-countrywide-is-falling.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dennis)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17719784.post-6236304054114207753Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:14:00 +00002008-03-06T17:26:12.954+01:00You need strong nerves if you're following the stock market at the moment. There's quite a bit of volatility and it seems the market just cant decide if it should crash because of the credit/food/bond insurer crunch/crash or if it should go up with the lower interest rates and the hope of having seen a bottom.I logged on to Zecco around the time the market opened and saw to my horror that almost http://newel.dk/2008/03/need-strong-nerves-these-days.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dennis)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17719784.post-3089981504072343172Tue, 04 Mar 2008 23:18:00 +00002008-03-05T06:27:22.583+01:00It's interesting how some of my older posts keep getting hits from Google. On of them is about options for blogging from my (now more than two years old) Nokia E61, and I thought that since my blog is mostly "read" by people bouncing in brow a google search I'd detail an ealier post with instructions for how I'm now blogging from my phone.There's really nothing to it, and it only requires two http://newel.dk/2008/03/blogging-from-nokia-e61.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dennis)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17719784.post-1874988602518112081Mon, 03 Mar 2008 22:23:00 +00002008-03-03T23:24:59.448+01:00I dismissed buying Index Oil & Gas (IXOG) as I'm not sure it'll move the way I would want it to. What I've been looking for is something that has potential to go from the possibility of something to actually getting it. Sort of like Goldspring who may have enough gold and silver in their land to mine it, but this has not yet been established. IXOG have already moved passed that point as they're http://newel.dk/2008/03/kingslake-energy-kglj.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dennis)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17719784.post-2660628717536685567Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:54:00 +00002008-02-29T18:54:22.700+01:00One stock I didn't mention yesterday was Mirant Corporation, a power company with operations in different parts of the world, mainly because it wasn't that interesting :) It's been going up and down a bit lately, from a small +1% to around -5%, and they might be a good thing to have during recessions etc., but they just weren't doing very well. Might have something to do with the news today thathttp://newel.dk/2008/02/mirant-mir-is-gone.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dennis)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17719784.post-7818704096552810314Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:36:00 +00002008-02-28T21:11:01.796+01:00Some of my stocks are doing really well at the moment - anywhere from +6% to +30% since i bought them, so the question begs: should I sell some of them? (btw: the rest are from -2.5% to -7% with an overall portfolio gain of 4%)On one hand they could continue rising in value but on the other hand they might have reached their peek. How do you tell? Well, I don't think you can. Not for each http://newel.dk/2008/02/when-to-sell.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dennis)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17719784.post-1992509121712831993Wed, 27 Feb 2008 23:00:00 +00002008-02-28T00:00:46.936+01:00At some point I came across one of these typical things that float around the 'net and wanted to find it again as I thought it was quite funny and an interesting way to look at investments. Basically a 25 year old woman was looking for a man to marry, but the main criteria was a yearly salary above $500K and not as much his character, person, looks or anything else. I know some Americans are http://newel.dk/2008/02/only-in-america.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dennis)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17719784.post-4036862156543539002Wed, 27 Feb 2008 15:27:00 +00002008-02-27T16:27:24.898+01:00I've mentioned problems with my work laptop before (in conjunction with my 3G modem) but I'm beginning to suspect it might be hardware related. The reason is that Ubuntu has just frozen up on me twice within half an hour. That's not something I've experienced before, and with the added problems of coming back from suspension or hibernation there must be something more fundamentally wrong with thehttp://newel.dk/2008/02/dodgy-ram.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dennis)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17719784.post-991587313699451163Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:52:00 +00002008-02-27T11:52:14.734+01:00Here are a few more (serious ones):"A drowning man is not troubled by rain." - Persian Proverb"A penny saved is a penny gained." - Scottish Proverb"A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion." - Chinese Proverb"Advice when most needed is least heeded." - English Proverb"An ox remains an ox, even if driven to Vienna." - Hungarian Proverb"As we live, so we learn.http://newel.dk/2008/02/on-topic-of-proverbs.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dennis)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17719784.post-5040260699177955762Tue, 26 Feb 2008 22:49:00 +00002008-02-27T10:19:56.968+01:00"Tension is who you think you should be, relaxation is who you are" - Chinese Proverb (not like these ones)http://newel.dk/2008/02/quote-of-day.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dennis)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17719784.post-5045492490681992901Tue, 26 Feb 2008 17:04:00 +00002008-02-26T18:24:04.458+01:00I've considered how to increase my blogging without it impacting other tasks and I think I may have found a way.Normally I blog by sitting down in front of my laptop with something already on my mind. However in most cases what I intended to blog about will have changed quite a few times, simply because I usually get my ideas somewhere else than in front of the laptop. It probably has something http://newel.dk/2008/02/testing-mail2blogger.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dennis)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17719784.post-2666518559001232507Tue, 26 Feb 2008 09:02:00 +00002008-02-26T11:07:05.315+01:00AMEX:ISV There was quite a bit of activity around this stock yesterday. They got $60M through a "Non-Recourse Note Offering" which made the price jump about $0.09. This may not sound as much, but given the price at closing on Friday was $0.61 it's a nice 15% gain in a day. Unfortunately I haven't invested that heavily in ISV, so my gain only amounted to around $9.90 so far. I do believe however, http://newel.dk/2008/02/insite-vision-isv.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dennis)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17719784.post-650024852748521408Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:47:00 +00002008-02-26T11:07:30.614+01:00OTCBB:GSPG Could this be a goldmine in more sense than one? Well..that's what I'm hoping for at the moment. This stock is what is called a "penny stock" (IFAIK) since it's trading around 2c at the moment. Why is this interesting? On one hand, it's a very risky stock as the company has basically just been burning money the last few years without any results yet, and the areas they own and are http://newel.dk/2008/02/goldspring-inc-gspg.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dennis)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17719784.post-7120335991136976212Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:27:00 +00002008-02-17T20:01:08.769+01:00I was messing around with the Apple Time Machine to try and get it to backup to my NAS-like network device (the Linksys NSLU2) but with the latest update (10.5.2) the simple hack of allowing non-supported drives to be seen by time machine doesn't work. It only works if you've managed to use the hack before the update and that way already have a time machine backup on a network drive. I haven't, http://newel.dk/2008/02/seriously-easy-backup-solution.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dennis)0