I like to keep an eye on the nothing-ventured blog written by Tom where he always seems to maintain some integrity and a great work ethic about the projects that he works on.

He put a lot of work into a new site called trust my garage which allows people to post up the reviews of garages and mechanics which is a cool idea because if you don't know about cars, picking a mechanic can be a real leap in the dark.

So he made his new site and started mentioning it in various car forums where it was seen by the editor of Yahoo!' s car pages. They were sufficiently impressed with the idea to feature the site on the front page which is really a fantastic piece of exposure for a new website and just goes to show there may still be something in the idea of working hard on a decent website that people will find genuinely useful.

Well done Tom, I hope the site goes from strength to strength.

By the way, I'm still using Dragon NaturallySpeaking I have to say it's really very good although I was talking to a friend on instant messenger who wanted me to test the swearing and the only offensive comment I could find out-of-the-box was toss pot, but I guess I'll be extending its repertoire of obscenities as time goes by.