Category: The World Today

Time is Wasted

Bah Ram You

Reading Time: 4 minutes Yesterday I wrote about experiences I had in a little gym in Prahran, Victoria. This wasn’t planned, as what I had sent was sent about a month ago, but it comes back to how your actions can have a profound effect on others, no matter how small or simple the gesture may be. So what …

Quarantine Bears

Reading Time: 2 minutes Had a couple of ideas on what I wanted to write about tonight, both are a bit different, but I want to write about both and this is my blog so I’m going to write about both. In the same post. Sue me. Attachment After many months of being stuck in isolation during the Melbourne …

Walk Out The Door

Reading Time: 4 minutes I’m less than 2 days away from leaving Melbourne and heading back to Perth (though it is, at this stage, supposed to be temporary). I broke down crying out the front of what has been my home for a majority of this COVID lockdown. Melbourne has been my home for near on 6 years now. …

Freedumbs

Reading Time: 3 minutes People hold some of the strangest beliefs. Some are outright crazy and insist that they are right and everyone else is a sheeple. This has become super apparent during COVID-19. People believing that it is all a hoax, a way to get people to wear masks which will eventually become a requirement to get vaccinated, …

#mask4mask

Reading Time: 4 minutes The photo is of me at Harley Davidson on the first day of mask restrictions. Before anyone gets too high on their high horses, I only own a motorbike for transport and I live in the ‘burbs. The steering was failing on my bike so I had to get it fixed. Either that, or spend …

Illusions of Privacy

Reading Time: 5 minutes People seem to get very bent out of shape when it comes to privacy. Nothing demonstrates this more recently than the COVID-19 contact tracing app. For background, the Australian contact tracing app, like most others, was based on the Bluetooth beacon protocol. Your device broadcasts an ID and other devices nearby receive this ID and …

It Starts With 1

Reading Time: 3 minutes Just a note, this isn’t about whether or not you should have the right to protest, or an argument about the BLM movement. I fully support everyone’s right to protest and I fully support the BLM movement. This is about COVID-19, and people’s attitudes. Right now the media is having a go at protesters who …