exercise 1

2 car doors,
2 pedestrians-on-the-road and
1 car-from-side-street incidents on my ride home tonight.
If i thought anyone was reading this blog, i might feel inclined to make it a voice for an endangered species who seems (in my city at least) to suffer from a rare form of invisibility: the cyclist
but this isn't the place

.......

i've found a new isport: blog naming
(no catchy title for the sport as yet. naming it can be another new sport)
i found i could not give my blog a URL to even vaguely match my blog id because, as you'd expect in the webspace in 2007, others had already taken all the options;
unfashionably i thought it would make sense to give it a URL that corresponded to my online name: fred's blog, logically, would be found under fred.blogspot.com. for example.
but apparently this is un-cool.

that it's 2007 and i've started my first blog is testament enough to my lack of trend setting on the interweb

wondering who had "my URL" and why, led me on a little voyage from one blog to the next. the blogger of the URL i wanted had a name very similar to mine but not quite. so why take a such a close but not exact match? because someone else had already taken the URL that exactly matched his/her name. and so on. my journey continued, like connecting random dots, until soon the sport just became "type any-random-word.blogspot.com and see what you find".

two things i found
three things
1. ideally there is little or no correspondence between the URL, the blog's title or the name of the blogger. random is IN.
2. a LOT of people build a blog just for the hell of it, add very obvious test-only entries and never touch it again. from just my short sampling i can tell there must be so very many dead blogs out there with a half life of eternity given google's apparent user-friendly 'freedom-to-start-a-blog-and-only-you-can-delete-it' policy
3. those who progress beyond the test entry have an attention span of less than a year, before the posts cease. wonder how long i'll last.