I am (was?) a big fan of O'Reilly - my computer book publisher of choice.
They always support Open Source, understand the issues of freedom in the digital age. And of course make the greatest computer books available.

Or should I speak in the past tense?

O'Reilly copyrighted the term "Web2.0" and put lawyers after some people who want to make a conference with "Web2.0" in it's name! O'Reilly wants to stop a collaborative meeting of people interested in the same area as they themselves are!! What?!???!

Have a look at Performancing.com: Handling Mistakes in Public.
There's a good posting with the most important links to blog posts, which explain, what's going on. This posting (and the references) is also a good kick-start for all the people, who don't really know, how corporate communication nowadays should be handled. Apparantly not even O'Reilly knows! And they coined the term "Web2.0" and what everything belongs to it...

... Tim O'Reilly is on holidays.. yeah, sure - like he would still be on holidays when his company screws up like this and he wouldn't approve it!

I reilly don't know, what to think of this whole shit....

UPDATE: It's apparantly not O'Reilly directly, but a company called CMP.

I have been dreaming of decentralized Version Control Systems since I heard of them. GnuBrain switched to darcs recently and today I decided to check it out more thoroughly. Although I got the basic idea before, I today realized how damn cool that is! Let's have a look at how I tried to sell it to my bro:

[23:09:27] <amette> let's have a look at darcs from a practical perspective...
[23:09:51] <amette> ... I create a cpaint AJAX implementation in Tiki - and I do so only on my system...
[23:10:20] <amette> ... batawata checks it out from dev.alexander-mette.de - and decides that xajax is much cooler and goes rebuilding it...
[23:11:01] <amette> ... I say "Damn, cool!" and check it out from his system - by virtually doing a "cvs up" from his system - so I get his modifications into my system...
[23:11:24] <amette> ... I see it breaks everything - I fix it - and commit it back to batawatas repository....
[23:11:35] <amette> ... now he and I both have a Tiki that works....
[23:12:29] <luciash> cool, but it sounds like a fairytale  :D
[23:12:43] <amette> ... then batawata decides to again "refactor" - I check it out from him, but this time I'm more careful - I make a 1:1 copy of my localhost-repository before (I don't trust him any more and I don't want to have any fixing/rollback(which is actually easy) to do)....
[23:13:06] <amette> hehe, yeah - fairytale - I wanna see it in action, too - but I'm almost there to belive it  ;)
[23:13:09] <luciash> i need real case example
[23:13:14] <luciash>  :D
[23:13:26] <amette> ... I see at the copy, that it doesn't work, so I just delete it and work on my stuff....
[23:13:47] <amette> ... meanwhile others check out from me (or him) because they believe more in his or my implementation....
[23:14:04] <amette> ... so we create clumps in the social code-network....
[23:14:10] <luciash> nice. you should write it down somewhere, veli
[23:14:53] <amette> ... and meanwhile xavi just checks out the 'central' darcs.tikiwiki.org repository, where only patches go, that are considered to be working - so xavi never has any trouble with a non-working wiki-edit or anything...

Damn, that distribution factor isn't to be underestimated!
It would kill the 3Rules as we know them! Tiki development could again be thriving and kicking!

I expected, that they have always a couple of servers spare and if an order comes in, they just hack it into their system and the automagic starts: assign a server to a customer, copy the image of the desired system over, mail the customer the information. Well, that was a little blue-eyed.

I called them yesterday to ask about the status and they told me, that it takes between five and seven days. Wow! That's a lot longer than I though.. Well, no root-server during this week then, I think... ;)

This site got much faster never the less. I stopped the IMAP-server and it is immediately noticeable. Seems like the slowness came from the "too many open files in system". So you can pretty well run a Tiki on a vServer, but not much else additionally..

.. can be found on the single most valuable site to website-developers ever: A list apart. Joe Clark has some very intriguing points to make about the process, the result and the nonsense about version two of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.

I know, that I'm not even at XHTML compliance yet, but I also know, that e.g. blind people don't have to suffer, if they browse to my page!

I really want my page to be accessible for anybody - and now I can't even point some dumb-ass executives to a noteworthy resource about accessibility??

Did fuckin' purely presentational Flash and PDF really win?? (Yes, they are becoming accessible, but it's putting the cart before the horse!!)

Damnit - I was at a DVD store with my Püppi and surfing the web from her cell phone was a real enlightenment! My web page was eons better than imdb.com.

I am very thankful to my bro, who showed me the first light on this issue (and who created simple and now *lite for TikiWiki)! And I will (and he, for sure, too!) go on in a way, that promises accessibility to anybody!

This one I just heard today from my bro. Czechs kicked out the Finns in the semi-finals. Then finns won against Canada 5-0 - not bad! ;)
Czechs were in the final against Swedes. This should have been the occassion for my bro's fellow countrymen to pay back the swedes our olympic loss. Hmpf - that didn't work out 4-0 for the swedes.

Damnit, they aren't capable of anything - but if it comes to ice hockey, then they are damn lucky bastards! ;P

First country ever to win ice hockey at the olympic games and at world championships in the same year - congrats SWE!

But we finns were more successful than ABBA at the eurovision song contest! ;)