pile of . . . .

Dogpile has existed since it was established in 1996. I have been using it since I first moved to the US in 2001. In May 2023 for reasons unknown to us they decided to pull out of many Asian regions. 

Dogpile is a meta search engine created to enhance search results. It facilitates the search for links to web pages, videos, music, news, and other online content. 

no longer available in the Philippines & other regions

Dogpile offers more content than services that only use their indexes because it uses results from multiple search engine indexes rather than just one. Among these are from Google, Yahoo!, Yandex, Bing.

It has also scraped content from several defunct search engines, including AltaVista, Infoseek, and HotBot.

Dogpile has made a name in internet history as one of the first metasearch engines. Dogpile was a cutting-edge search engine then, and we see many benefits to using it as your primary search engine over the other options 

Maybe it's for the best to go now. Dogpile hasn’t always kept up with new trends, unlike its more recent rival, Google. Although it provides a wide range of search results, it isn’t as functional as Google and isn’t as private as DuckDuckGo. 

We've had a good run and now it's time we went our separate ways. It was great while it lasted. 

view from my room

I pray to the birds because I believe they will carry the messages of my heart upward. I pray to them because I believe in their existence, the way their songs begin and end each day... the invocations and benedictions of Earth. I pray to the birds because they remind me of what I love rather than what I fear. And at the end of my prayers, they teach me how to listen. ~ Terry Tempest Williams, Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place

10th Anniversary Edition book cover

I lie in bed nursing my battered psyche and renegade body, feeling like such a failure for succumbing to COVID-19 so unexpectedly. This is a first for me - after years of careful dodging and concerned management I am just another casualty of this abominable pandemic.

I was supposed to be spending my time writing an article about our local island birds - for submission before I fly off to Bali for a sound healing workshop. Instead, I loll around in a daze - my fevered brain pounding savagely, eyes hot and bleary, unable to focus.

heart & soul nebulae

For Mother's Day we celebrated with this gorgeous collection of images of two emission nebulae - aptly called the heart and soul. 

When we honor all mothering guardian spirits - the carers and nurturers who birthed and raised us - those who brought us into being and enlivened our world.

Heart &Soul nebulae - infrared mosaic from NASA’s
Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) 

The Heart Nebula (IC 1805) is an emission nebula located at an approximate distance of 7,500 light years from Earth, in the constellation Cassiopeia. It is also known as Sharpless 2-190 (Sh2-190). 

The Heart Nebula forms a famous complex known as the Heart and Soul with its smaller neighbour Westerhout 5, also known as the Soul Nebula, which lies just 2.5 degrees to the southeast. 

Bless blessed blessings from the heavens above and around us! 

stolen work

World Intellectual Property Day takes place every year on April 26. It was established by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in 2000. 

Each year, the campaign is rolled out around a topical theme:

• 2023 – Women and IP: Accelerating Innovation and Creativity
• 2022 – IP and Youth: Innovating for a Better Future 
• 2021 – IP and SMEs: Taking Your Ideas to Market 
• 2020 – Innovate for a Green Future 

The purpose of the holiday is to raise awareness about patents, copyright, and trademarks. People can learn more about how these laws impact our daily life. 

It helps us to celebrate talent and creativity which makes us able to recognize the contributions that creators and inventors make to our world. 

writing tools of creative revolution

My work was recently so blatantly and publicly plagiarized. Accidental or not it made me feel violated and vandalized. The fact that it was done was surprising enough. That it was perpetuated by someone who should have known better was a brutal shock.