{"id":1534,"date":"2009-10-16T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-16T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/?p=1534"},"modified":"2009-10-16T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-16T12:00:00","slug":"oow-2009-swag-round-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/16\/oow-2009-swag-round-up\/","title":{"rendered":"OOW 2009 – Swag Round-up"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been trying for weeks to get a picture of me wearing the jacket you receive when you’re made an ACE Director but it’s proved trcky so I brought it over with me this week and wore it one day so Marco could take the photo. Unfortunately we didn’t get round to it so here are a couple of photos without the male model.<\/p>\n

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As you can see, it’s disgustingly sophisticated for this type of garment and has, on at least two occassions (Alex and I) passed the woman test. i.e. When our other halves have seen the garment they’ve both thought – ‘hey, that one doesn’t look too bad!’. However, I must admit that when I prepared to model it the other day, underneath it I wore the all time classic, best ever T-Shirt, to prove my heart is still in the right place 😉<\/p>\n

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For those doubting it’s status, you should have seen Marco Gralike practically begging me to swop it for one or more of his garments. No way, man! (although I might have a word with Kurt for you 😉)<\/p>\n

This year’s annual ACE garment was another high-quality, reasonably sophisiticated affair and I can only assume hard lessons have been learned from the emergency flare red year …<\/p>\n

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… and the ACEs also got this one, which I have ear-marked as a gift for Boneist when I get back to London.<\/p>\n

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The conference bag looked really nice too. Not the best quality, to be fair ….<\/p>\n

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It’s a toss-up for the best T-Shirt of the conference, though, between the one I had the most fun with ….<\/p>\n

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… and the eventual winner – the OTN T-Shirt from the lounge. In fact, I tend to find the OTN shirt one of the best every year – always fits, always front and back designs, always black with a bit of red and white and always geeky. I actually wear these things occassionally during the year and Boneist would probably understand that I like this design with my semi-conductor obsession 😉<\/p>\n

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… and all this without visiting the Exhibition Halls once<\/em>. I really let the side down on that score this year.<\/p>\n

Disclosure: I’m attending this year’s Openworld Conference at the
\ninvitation of the Oracle ACE Director program, which is paying my
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I’ve been trying for weeks to get a picture of me wearing the jacket you receive when you’re made an ACE Director but it’s proved trcky so I brought it over with me this week and wore it one day so Marco could take the photo. Unfortunately we didn’t get round to it so here… Continue reading OOW 2009 – Swag Round-up<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1636,"url":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/26\/new-blog-round-up\/","url_meta":{"origin":1534,"position":0},"title":"New Blog Round-Up","date":"April 26, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"I've spotted a few useful posts lately and a few friends have started blogging so I thought I'd draw people's attention to them.Neil Chandler is a UKOUG regular as well as a central and well-loved member of the informal London Oracle drinking massive (well, that's what I'll say about him\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 3 comments","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1097,"url":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/03\/my-camera\/","url_meta":{"origin":1534,"position":1},"title":"My Camera …","date":"October 3, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"might be rubbish, but I know a man with a much better one. These are courtesy of David Kurtz. I'm particularly happy about the ones of Michael M\u00f6ller (or M2) doing his dance during the Miracle Abba Musical. I think you'll know the ones I'm talking about when you see\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1399,"url":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/05\/stats-eek\/","url_meta":{"origin":1534,"position":2},"title":"Stats – Eek!","date":"April 5, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I'd noticed that the author name wasn't showing up properly in the feeds from this blog so I went to investigate why. I logged into Feedburner (a rare event) and noticed these subscriber numbers. I'm quite shocked. I only look in Statcounter sometimes to see where people are coming from\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 3 comments","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1022,"url":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/14\/grrrrrr\/","url_meta":{"origin":1534,"position":3},"title":"Grrrrrr!","date":"July 14, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"So what can I do? I've messed around with templates, updated the back-end database and I'm going round in circles.My problem? Well 

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