Background

Why did I start BreszLand.COM? Why do I have a 7 Series. Why a 7 Series and not something else, is it a choice, or just a chance. Let's start with the easy questions first. Why BreszLand.COM? Why Not BreszLand.COM is of course the easy answer, but doesn't really tell the whole story. Over my 10+ year career, I have worked at a lot of companies and usually sort of been in charge of the computing environment in one way or another. I have been noodling around the net (sorry Mr. Protocol) for about 10 years or so, I actually knew about 'The ArpaNet' as it was called then, back in 1985 when I first graduated from Pitt. In the course of running computers for others, I always had to think of names for various machines. There was usually some naming scheme, I've used metals, beer, fish, and other conventions some more boring than others, but none of the machines I named truly mine, they always had to serve some useful function for someone somewhere. Then I discovered linux, I finally had a machine that I could truly say was mine. This was a machine on which I could do anything I wanted. I could change the OS, I could install and de-install anything I wanted, the only person I had to please was myself. As I mentioned all the other machines I had to make function for others, this was mine. This made it sort of a playland for me or as I thought a BreszLand, I've been naming my machines BreszLand or BreszHomeLand as the case may be ever since. As for BreszLand.COM I had always wanted to register the name, but justifying it was a little difficult. I always wanted to put my linux machine on the 'Net permanently, again justification was difficult. Finally I realized that the BMW 7 Series Digest needed a new home. Transarc was, and is fine, but I am using finite corporate resources. My web pages are responsible for a decent amount of hits on our corporate web site. The hits are generated mostly due to the fact that I have registered with every search engine I can find. Finally, I thought the time was right for the mailing list and the Web site to find a real home of it's own. I convinced the wife that the expense was something I could bear, and suggested an email to my list would yield some support which would help out. Many people helped out with more the the $2 I asked for - for which I am very grateful. I think that this will be a great site to have and I hope to make the BMW 7 Series Pages something great, a nice reference site that people can use to find the information they want about their cars. P.S. This is really from 1998 but the post factory won't handle 1998.