7 days to go until I fly to California for OSCON. Apart for learning lots, I hope to make some good business contacts there.

I have printed 3 tshirts - I have the slogan "VideoAds open sourced..." printed high on the back of the tshirt - I used this service - I really like the in browser tshirt design tool - we will see what they look like

I printed 2 sets of business cards - one set to promote bouncingminds VideoAds solution and one set to promote pure consulting work though Zulutime Solutions. I used www.fastcards.co.uk - their in browser business card design tool is terrible - I must have looked at 10 online business card printing companies - moo.com seems to be the only decent one. I couldnt use moo because they require at least 5 days to print business cards. Perhaps just having a usable web interface is enough to give a business a significant advantage over compeditors.

I designed my Zulutime company  logo - perhaps I should have paid someone to do it ... but the logo has lots of hidden meanings for me which I was thinking about . On thurday I attended a talk by Simon Wardley from Canonical at skillsmatter. I am still waiting for the video of the talk to go up online (so I can place a link to it - but it was similar to this one) - A lot of the talk was about how technology goes though cycles of invention->bespoke->product->service on a sigmoid curve (hence the Sigmoid in the logo).

The green & gold is South African colors, the egg for invention and also the symbol looks a little like a platapus - the green arrow is for time. The little baige symbols are  sails, shields or ships showing the movement up the curve.