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It’s very easy to criticise and complain about ineptitude and incompetence in government, public bodies and even private bodies. I know I do it quite a bit.

So it’s important to dangle an arm in the air and squeek “w00t!” on occasion for geeky goodness when the said public bodies do good. I’ve recently bought a car - the first I have ever owned (previously I’ve had a lease-hire car of sorts), and so I’m down as the registered owner. With the tax disc due to be renewed at the end of the month, I was bracing myself for a queue and manifestly incomprehensible forms at the local post office, followed by lots of officious rubber stamping, furrowed brows at my proffered insurance documents, stapling and carefully deployed paper clips.

So it is hard to contain my enthusiasm for all things geeky when I received a positively friendly looking envelope containing a reminder that the tax disc was due soon and that I could “tax your vehicle online” in large, friendly blue letters. Such beaming and bright colours, subtly offsetting the dull green and white DVLA logo was hard to comprehend before my morning coffee. But being a paid up member of the geek fraternity (an oxymoron if ever there was one), I duly complied and brandished my Visa Delta card in the direction of the DVLA renewal website.

So, all paid up and done without having to exercise anything more than my fingers, and - dare I say it - buttock cheeks as they clenched in delight at not having to face a post office customer care assistance (with malfunctioning death eyes). I now await my Tax Disc with a strange, and positively worrying amount of enthusiasm…

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