OOW 2009 - Swag Round-up

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.





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



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 )

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 ...



... and the ACEs also got this one, which I have ear-marked as a gift for Boneist when I get back to London.



The conference bag looked really nice too. Not the best quality, to be fair ....



It's a toss-up for the best T-Shirt of the conference, though, between the one I had the most fun with ....



... 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





... and all this without visiting the Exhibition Halls once. I really let the side down on that score this year.

Disclosure: I'm attending this year's Openworld Conference at the invitation of the Oracle ACE Director program, which is paying my travel and accommodation expenses.