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Whilst standing in the back room at the ballet school that my daughter Sophie goes to, I had an interesting conversation. I was wearing my Ubuntu Hardy Heron T-shirt which I got from the Canonical Online Store.

One of the other parents (a mum) said to me "That's a nice T-shirt, where did you get it? Is it a Paul Smith?". This made me chuckle a little. I had to reply "No, it's not, it's 'just a promotional T-shirt to do with a product I use'". She was surprised. So was I.

There's something to be said for geek-wear that doesn't scream "I AM A GEEK T-SHIRT".

Don't forget that every month on the Ubuntu UK Podcast we are giving away discount codes for the Canonical store as competition prizes!

Update My family all just descended on my house for a Barbeque. My brother just said "Hey, nice t-shirt" :)

This has been all over the blogs and news.

Some samples..

MacBook Air Hacked In Two Minutes, Vista finally falls when Adobe Flash is installed, Ubuntu Beats OSX and Vista in Pwn 2 Own Hackathon

On the third day of the PWN to OWN Contest where three laptops (one Vista, one OSX, one Ubuntu) were exposed to allow experts attempt to 'break' or '0wn' them.

"So at the end of the last day of the contest, only the Sony VAIO laptop running Ubuntu was left standing. "

Nice to see :)

Some members of the Ubuntu UK Local Community team got together and made a podcast.

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The portions here in America are really large...

My journey from home to Boston was somewhat more convoluted than I imagined, but good fun and not too stressful.

I had already packed my suitcase on Thursday night so I was pretty much ready to go on Friday morning. I had to pop out of the house to run an errand, and on the way out said to my wife "Clare, explain baggage carousels to Sophie (my 4 year old daughter) and put some stickers on my case". I now have a case covered in smiley faces, stickers of Pooh Bear and Tigger, and lots of little sparkly stars. There's no way I'll mix-up my luggage at the airport now!