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My uni’s union is doing an online vote for their elections this year. They seem to be doing it through a third party called SurveySwift. SurveySwift need a swift clip around the ear:

What exactly it expects me to input as my “preference” I really don’t know – but the above page submits successfully. Quite how they plan to count the votes I’m not sure; I’m so confused.

It appears CCP, the designers of EVE Online have opted for a new way to localise their website. Rather than the more traditional method of guessing where the client is and picking an appropriate localisation for things like dates and currency, it uses a new method. Instead of risking getting the localisation wrong, it picks a locale at random on each view. At least it’s statistically likely to hit the right one… occasionally. For example, on reloading the downtime news page a couple of times, you see this:

Note the two completely different date formats. Whether this is a site wide issue or just the downtime news page that does this, I’m not sure.

UPDATE: They seemed to have fixed it.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Oh, maybe not.

Recently I was at Katie’s place and she was playing with her shiny new N95 – of which I am rather jealous. She was having some issues getting the calendar on the phone to sync properly with her .mac and google calendars; this made me think about synchronising PIM systems. The more I thought about it the more complicated it seemed.

What is required is some kind of central service which knows how to talk to Google calendar, iCal things – and all the rest. Turns out it exists!

ScheduleWorld – I’m going to try it out over the next couple of days and I’ll report back on whether it works or not!