Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Images


OK, I love taking photos. The time and care in composition, matched by care within the darkroom - or in my case now the digital darkroom. Ostensibly much quicker, although I still spend as much - or more - time; I just try more variations! You can check out the full gallery of planes, trains, trams, cars, art, plants and birds here.
Labels: art, gallery, images, photography
Thursday, December 07, 2006
Wednesday, December 06, 2006
Tuesday, December 05, 2006
It's the silly season for car journos
Look at this Aussie car of the year - the GM Holden Commodore. (From Carsguide.com.au) Heavier and thirstier than the previous model, it is a loathsome thing that will actually belt another nail into the climate change coffin. But it meets the criteria, doesn't it? Of course the journos set the criteria and off they go. In other places this is called corruption, or at least a conflict of interest.
But if we have an independent assessment of what's valued in a car, or even better if we select a panel of independent experts, they are deemed to 'not know cars'. At the end of the day journos need to sell newspapers (or websites, or mags) and will set the game up to be attractive to as many people as possible. So we can never get a true assessment of worth, as there is an inherent bias. We get what hey think we want. But what happens when the world is turning towards low-impact on the environment? Could it be that the journos will continue to feed us big, fast, fat cars as the "heroes" whilst we actually go out and buy smaller, lower-impact cars? Does anyone smell "irrelevance" here?
Wednesday, November 22, 2006
Well it's a start
Friday, November 17, 2006
What am I thinking?
Now if you fast forward a few years from there you get several new things happening. Firstly the reunion of my old classmates from Fort Street High School, spawning this site, this gallery and this bulletin board. The amazing thing is that we left that school in 1975 - and despite the passage of time, and having previously only entertained 10 year intervals between subsequent reunions, the Class of 75 now meets online every day and face to face every few months. It's the power of the Internet, folks. Not only did the Internet facilitate the coming together in 2005, making it much easier to track people down and let them know what was happening, it has provided a method by which to easily stay in contact. Now if anyone ever tells you that computers are anti-social and impersonal... they have fewer legs to stand on than they think!
Which brings me to the blogging... which is just an expansion really of all of the above ;-)
Friday, October 27, 2006
This is funny.. really funny. Well, I like it anyway! (And yes, Stephen Hawking's in my library, too. Isn't he in yours?)
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
The other thing keeping me busy
Other than that it goes slightly out of whack when you use different font sizes to me! So don't do that, OK! It's meant to look good, not weird. (I guess I'll work on it some more.)
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
I've been busy
My portals
My Alfa pages
- The Rust-free Alfa Romeo page: guaranteed since '95
- All about Alfas, especially GTVs
- The car gallery
My bike racing pages
- Addicted2wheels, bicycle race wheels: my most popular blog
- Bike racing for almost anyone
- The bike gallery
- Myths, legends and weird stuff: Mythoblogia
- The business of sustainable business
- My MBA resource blog - thespiel.com
- Out Out Damned Blog - a wilder ride
- The Offline blog for quieter web-rants
- Addicted2wheels, bicycle race wheels: my most popular blog
- The site that started it all for me in 1995, Colnago - the blogger
- The Rust-free Alfa Romeo page: guaranteed since '95
- My MBA resource blog - thespiel.com
- Myths, legends and weird stuff: Mythoblogia
- The Abecedarian Insult: A2Z, the blog
- Stuff I think you all mustknow
- All about Alfas, especially GTVs
- The business of sustainable business
- Bike racing for almost anyone
- The Offline blog for web-rants
- My all purpose writing blog
- The Class of 75 blog
- The gtveloce.com-munity blog
- My genealogy research blog
- Out Out Damned Blog - a wild ride
- DAP: the digital image gallery
- My mostly digital image blog
- DAR: the digital art gallery
- The aviation gallery
- The aviation image blog
- Trams, trains and buses... yet another gallery
- The bike gallery
- The car gallery
- The flora and fungus gallery (I kid you not)
- The New Fortian gallery
- The Original Fortian gallery
- My experiment with a php-scripted CMS
- My Squidoo page
- and my TagWorld page
- Buy my mugs and t-shirts from Cafepress
- Buy my books and images from Lulu
- The mustknows
Surely that's enough for now!







