ome of you (assuming there is any/still existing readers) may have noticed that on accessing veganarky a dbase error was listed. This was because of the second malicious attack on this site. Whilst I managed to overcome the first attack, I was not able to overcome the second. The reason it has taken so long to get the site re-established was having the host ISP going through it’s back-ups to find my dbase that was ‘lost’ during the second attack. No thanks to this ISP, they do not have a back-up of my dbase. And a big thank you (not!) to those behind the malicious attack. I have logs – if I wa…

Today I was trying to meet a friend whom I had not seen since they left Australia close to a year ago to return to Canada. I had also made arrangements to meet a pretty amazing person I had randomly met for the first time four days before. I was to meet them two bus and a ferry ride away and we were to get a ride together out to Cathedral Grove (I had no idea how to get there). My friend was running quite late and I waited what I thought would be too long to make it to the second bus and thus the ferry. I boarded a bus givin…

oday I experienced the most ridiculous exercise I had ever come across. It is probably the only thing I can say was a complete waste of the time of all involved. And this has nothing to do with my outright objections to what it was… it all unfolded on a transit stop at Honolulu on my way to Vancouver, Canada. The purpose of the transit stop was for the plane to re‐fuel for the second leg of the flight. My thoughts were – based on past experiences – that we would alight and wait in a transit lounge for the 90‐minutes stipulated in the itinerary. This was not the ca…

a young girl, bone protruding from her arm, sits in the emergency department of a hospital for eight hours waiting for not just for treatment – she has not even been seen (let alone assessed) by a doctor… a professional sportsman (gendered term purposively) with a suspected calf strain receives an MRI scan, and then spends significant time in a hyperbaric chamber to speed his recovery. see any contradictions here? What kind of world do we live in when we prioritise the health and well being of those who can afford to pay (and sportsmen are the worst category of this) over e…