The GTVeloce.com-munity

Car companies actually building smaller, from eco-friendly materials? How much is just show? How can we pick real ideas from marketing gimmicks? Fact is that steel and plastic cars consume something around 30% of their energy budget (on average) just being made and shipped. Now if these guys were serious they'd get some standards together about modular, replaceable, repairable components that could be plugged into any brand of car, rather than building cars with 5 year lifespans and guaranteeing "100% recyclability". How does one recycle without burning more energy? Where do we get this energy from?

Why do I pretend I have a dot.com-munity happening? Pretend?? Well, it started in 1995 with just one small site at OzEmail in Australia. It looked a bit like this. It focused on cars and bikes - well Alfas and my cycling club, really, for about 4 years - and then it turned into the "old" gtveloce.com, which looked a little like this.

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 ;-)