A Good Host for All Seasons
I'm not referring to a good party host in this instance, but a good webhosting host. Ever since my last scare a few days ago where I had inadvertently deleted a folder, it's gotten me thinking about the possibility of getting business hosting services. My current host is lovely, but sometimes I need additional services that they cannot provide.
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When Dogs Need to Pee
I couldn't help laughing at this picture of dogs queuing up to use the tree. Wonder what kind of photo manipulation was done. Brilliant!
When Poets are more Accurate than Scientists
Science can sometimes make something extraordinary and beautiful into a mundane and boring phenomenon. For example, look at this gorgeous picture which can really resonate something unutterable within our being. Science would have us believe that all we are seeing is "an optical and meteorological phenomenon that causes a spectrum of light to appear in the sky when the Sun shines onto droplets of moisture in the Earth's atmosphere".
I beg to differ.
What we are seeing is much more accurately described by the poets:
Rainbows are visions
They're only illusions
And rainbows have nothing to hide
So we've been told and some chose to
Believe it
But I know they're wrong wait and see ...
Someday well find it
The rainbow connection
The lovers, the dreamers and me.