Pull up to the bumper baby...

Haven't posted for ages, and I'm sure the few of you who read this won't necessarily care, but I have been rather busy sorting out a new job, going on holiday, dealing with errant children and generally getting many a priority straightened. The lesson learned, above all else, is to please yourself and don't worry about anyone else...they can't be helped but it might help them to see someone helping themselves.

So, to get back in the swing of things, I'm just

going to post up this little gem. It's called Bump and it's a social network site for car owners. Whilst their promo video is cheesy as hell, the service (and in truth it's a service built around a social network) is very neat. It relies on the drivers of the world to play nicely and show a little altruism. Your number plate is your ID and means that if someone sees there's a problem with your car they've got a quick and easy way of letting you know by tapping your registration into the site and sending you a message.

Anyway, you've got @Documentally to thank for this, via his excellent blog here

I'm only posting this because I've spent the last couple of months researching car drivers and wondered why no one had thought of this before....turns out they had (as Documentally's post will attest). I'll write up the whole car driver research thing for a future post as it was very insightful and a lot of fun.

The moral of this story is....if you've got a great idea, do it before someone else does....