Happy voting holiday

01 Mar 2006

So, today was the local government elections here in South Africa, with a public holiday attached - well, if you're not a few man-hours of work before your next major release of software and you're averaging about 7 hours a day without electricity. So, anyone else notice that the electoral commission web site sucks even more than usual? Absolutely not usable using Firefox. Gah, and they haven't even replied to my seven or so emails since October 2003 on this issue on their standard web site...

3 old-style comments

  1. wjv — March 02, 2006 at 11:11 AM.

    Right now it gives me: Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80004005' [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][DBNETLIB]SQL Server does not exist or access denied. /LM/W3SVC/1/ROOT/global.asa, line 112 :->

  2. Ian — March 02, 2006 at 04:48 PM.

    I also sent them a mail today, and seem to remember doing this last time as well. Great responsiveness by Webmaster@elections.org.za ... Seeing as my windows machine is fried afer the power cuts, this is quite annoying :) Site also doesn't respond to elections.org.za, it needs the www, another of those things I find annoying and inexcusable :). I also got the error page once, but it seems to work with a refresh, obviously just having load issues.

  3. Ian — March 02, 2006 at 04:52 PM.

    I also sent them a mail today, and seem to remember sending doing so last time. Great responsiveness by Webmaster@elections.org.za Another inexcusable annoyance is that the site doesn't respond to elections.org.za, it needs the www. Seeing as my Windows machine is fried after the power cuts, anyone care to tell me the results of the Observatory/Salt River ward? :)
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