A chap from Tesco Car Insurance came round yesterday to investigate the damage to my vehicle after its recent bump.

My wife said that the chap carried a "funky laptop that folded back on itself" and it was running software that allowed him to view a 3D model of the car and expand out the constituent parts (like a furniture assembly diagram) in order to identify the damaged parts, which he marked with a stylus.

The Tablet PC clearly has a place in the portable computing market alongside traditional laptops and PDAs, certainly for data-capture type jobs.

My sister, who works as an Occupational Therapist in the NHS, has also been given a Tablet PC for capturing the results of the assessment interviews she conducts with patients in their homes.

Disaster! On the way to work on Monday, a driver went into the back of my new car. He was only a young lad and I think it was his first accident. We exchanged details whilst we both tried to ignore the shouts and honking of annoyed drivers stuck behind us.

The damage is relatively minor, but there are some dents and scratches in the rear bumper, as you can see quite clearly in the picture.

The other driver admitted full responsibility, so it won't cost me anything, but it will cost his insurance company somewhere in the region of £800 to put right. At least, that's what my local Toyota dealer reckons it will cost to put right anyway. The other driver's insurance company are sending out their own inspector on Monday to assess the damage.

I generally don't have much luck with cars. I once bought a car that in the short time I had it, had a tyre blowout whilst I was driving down a dual carriageway at 60mph; I also put a massive dent in the passenger door whilst trying to park in multi-storey car park and I also took the nearside wing mirror off by pulling off too fast from outside our house and clipping the pillar of the front garden wall.