Ryanair has demonstrated superb customer service initiative with it’s decision to take it’s site down for maintenance and leverage a fee on the poor buggers who don’t know.

In a site with 200M users, to register 6 million custom usernames in the first day or two isn’t really that surprising. It just validates that at least 3% of people are actually using their profile and saw the notice.

All major browsers support the general sibling selector except our favorite: Internet Explorer 6… Sound familiar? Smashing Magazine rehashes CSS3 support in Take Your Design To The Next Level With CSS3

After considering Tumblr and other services I realised that I spend quite a lot of time reading and collecting resources across the internet for personal development or out of interest and quite often intend on sharing or commenting on such content within my blog. This of course doesn’t happen simply due to time constraints, enter asides.

Asides, linklogs, tumblelogs and any other associated name you want to throw in allow you to post short form comments/posts, in my specific case related to other content I have found around the web.

I have set this up on my blog quickly and will expand on it over time when I can focus on the display and functionality issues surrounding it. For the mean time they will be the short ones (obviously) with a grey(ish) background.

To listen or not to listen, unfortunately most of us are guilty of this at some point in time, some a lot more than others… People Don’t Listen

It has often been mentioned on the forums that the eZ Publish Roadmap needs some love and that a product without a roadmap inspires the confidence of no-one. Luckily this has been updated as recently as June 12th and the new roadmap is looking pretty nice.

From cluster and performance enhancements and eZ Flow updates through to new extensions and updates to eZ Find there is something in there for everyone. Unfortunately Admin Interface redesigns don’t make the cut until the 4.3 release slated for March 30th 2010, but then that is only 9 months away in any case.

If eZ Systems manages to deliver on these promises there is some really nice looking functionality for both partners and customers alike, but as recent history has shown I will remain optimistically cautious and continue delivering the services I need now rather than waiting for something to materialise based on an ever-shifting roadmap.

User reported journalism whilst not professional is certainly gaining more authority by simply being available when traditional journalism has been expelled… Twitter Users Put CNN to Shame on Iran Riot Coverage

Both amusing and accurate, something every web designer/developer tries to avoid in each new client… If Architects had to work like Web Developers

I received the emails but I was never silly enough to open them, Tagged: The World’s Most Annoying Website

It wasn’t founded on a basis of paid content, but the mechanisms already exist. It doesn’t lack a mechanism, it lacks the collusion of all involved parties to charge for something we could otherwise source for free… Barry Diller: The Internet ‘Absolutely’ Will Become a ‘Paid System’. Time Project: Within 5 Years

I couldn’t agree more with this… The tyranny of time