Here’s an odd site: eNaTiS (Electronic National Traffic Information System). Mike tells me this site has been around for quite a while (I only discovered it today), and just last week their provisional “go-live” date was 27 November or something. It now reads 2 January 2007. This hardly surprises me considering that it’s an initiative being undertaken by our traffic department and if anyone has had any experience trying to book a license… well I don’t think I need to finish that sentence.

Anyways, being able to do things like renew vehicle licenses and book tests online is quite nice. It doesn’t really affect me much as I’ve got both the licenses I’m ever to likely want for the forseeable future, and renewing a vehicle license has been pretty painless; just post them a cheque and they post a license disc back.

The acronym (eNaTiS) strikes me as a bit immature and unnecessary. Maybe it’s just me, but the tacky alternating capitalisation reminds me much of a 10 year old kid’s first adventure into the territory of online chatting where you would often find something akin to _AwEsOmEgUy2000_ or as is the case these days you may replace the letters with the appropriate number to imitate 13375p34k — the ridiculous nature of this trend is of course a post for another day.