Coming home today I’m walking through New York City’s West Village and at the corner of 6th and Prince there’s a fire truck and police car stopped in the intersection. There’s also a cab and on the ground in front it a bicycle and its rider. I didn’t see a helmet.

I thought back to a couple months ago when I took a nasty spill off my bike. Even with a helmet on I experienced a temporary memory loss which was scary. I’m sure I would have at least fractured my skull without the helmet.

A letter in my bike club newsletter tells of someone with the same exact fall and symptoms I had. He also had the same incredible gratefulness for his helmet. I remember writing to the helmet company (Giro) to thank them, and being oh-so-glad to lay out cash for a new one.

And this afternoon at lunch a friend at work told us his girlfiend fell off a moped on Day 2 of a vacation in Cancun. No helmets, luckily she only broke her leg and nothing more.

I’m working on creating a financial news portal and have been thinking about the information architecture of portals. It seems portals like My Yahoo! are a sophisticated set of bookmarks: you pass through your portal into a set of selected documents.

I need to invent a new term, which I’ll call a shell until I think of something hipper, that is more of an intelligent intermediary, whatching where you go and making an effort to shape the context on each page according to your selections.

Hmmmm, I misinterpreted the function of the date header, thinking it would insert after each post, when actually it only inserts at the end of each day’s posts. NOW it should work OK, with my nice little rule in between each post, noisebetweenstations style.

Yeeehaaaa. T’Works! Only thang I forgot was the time tag. That should be here this time…

This is my first post using Blogger and I’m very excited. My only concern is whether I entered all the paths correctly, I’d like to see examples along with their otherwise helpful instructions.