I wanted to both advertise and solicit help with a project I've been working on called Network of Trust (http://networkoftrust.net/).

The idea is that the best way to choose who to hire for different services is based on recommendations and advice from your friends and family.

Speaking of which, this is a project I've been working on with my dad. Who has been known to lurk on this list. Since I've never had the opportunity to introduce my dad, I'm going to try and use as much Internet jargon as I can for him to look up. Please bear with me. My father, Michael, is a true geek at heart. He went to the Technion Institute in Haifa, Israel to study engineering "back in the olden days" as his grand-daughter likes to say. He later got his business degree at NYU and worked at a company called Celesco, which made transducers, for most of his career. He retired sometime about last year - and Network of Trust is one of things he spends his time on. He's kind of like Robert de Niro from Meet the Parents.

So I think what we need the most help with is some eyeballs on how the back-end is put together, since the guy who did it is working on other things now.

Also, as always, need people to sign up and to use it. Comments and suggestions would be very much appreciated.

OK, dad, don't be shy. These are nice people. Mostly.