Journal/21 Thermidor CCXV from Evan Prodromou

So, a few weeks ago (Journal/22 Prairial CCXV) I expressed some discomfort about the Mister Wong logo. I'm very happy to see that the company has taken my and other people's uneasiness into consideration and removed the logo from their site.

They've started a new Mister Wong logo contest with a grand prize of $6000 (American, assumably) and two second prizes of $3000. That's a pretty good cash-out for a logo contest; Mister Wong is also a high-profile and growing site.

I hope some of my designer friends and colleagues decide to jump in. (Yeah, Brigitte, Marie-Claude, Patrick, and Mark, I mean you!) I think it's definitely an interesting challenge for someone doing identity work.

I'm not going to join the contest, though. My only idea right now is to do a copy of the current Mister Wong logo (same gray suit and tie) but with a Caucasian man's face instead. The sub-title? It can't be Wong when it feels so white.

Yeah, that's why I don't get the big bucks in the corporate identity biz.

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Back on Planet

So, I got a lot of feedback about removing my blog from Planet Debian -- all of it bad. People really felt that it was important for all Debian developers to be able to say their piece on PD. So, I re-instated it this morning.

I'm going to try to make some changes to fix the main thing that seems to bother people: that my post titles are the current date in the French Revolutionary Calendar. For some reason, that really gets under people's skins. Unfortunately, a few things on my (hand-coded) wiki-blog site expect that format, so it's going to be a little tricky.

One thing I might do is create and distribute a Greasemonkey script for planet.debian.org (and p.d.net) that seeks out titles that look like French revolutionary calendar dates and replaces them with a random selection from an array of more typical blog post titles:

Any other suggestions for all-purpose blog-post titles to add to the array are welcome.

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