diff --git a/Mage/Console.php b/Mage/Console.php
index 9f643b7..9d92b39 100644
--- a/Mage/Console.php
+++ b/Mage/Console.php
@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
 <?php
 class Mage_Console
 {
-    private $_args;
-    private $_action;
-    private $_actionOptions;
-    private $_environment;
+    private $_args = null;
+    private $_action = null;
+    private $_actionOptions = null;
+    private $_environment = null;
+    private static $_log = null;
     
     public function setArgs($args)
     {
@@ -46,6 +47,8 @@ class Mage_Console
     
     public static function output($message, $tabs = 1, $newLine = 1)
     {
+        self::log(strip_tags($message));
+        
         $output = str_repeat("\t", $tabs)
                 . Mage_Console_Colors::color($message)
                 . str_repeat(PHP_EOL, $newLine);
@@ -55,9 +58,15 @@ class Mage_Console
     
     public static function executeCommand($command)
     {
+        self::log('---------------------------------');
+        self::log('---- Executing: $ ' . $command);
+        
         ob_start();
         system($command . ' 2>&1', $return);
         $log = ob_get_clean();
+        
+        self::log($log);
+        self::log('---------------------------------');
 
         return !$return;
     }
@@ -94,4 +103,14 @@ class Mage_Console
                 break;
         }
     }
+
+    public static function log($message, $continuation = false)
+    {
+        if (self::$_log == null) {
+            self::$_log = fopen('.mage/logs/log-' . date('Ymd-His') . '.log', 'w');
+        }
+        
+        $message = date('Y-m-d H:i:s -- ') . $message;
+        fwrite(self::$_log, $message . PHP_EOL);
+    }
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/Mage/Task/BuiltIn/Deployment/Rsync.php b/Mage/Task/BuiltIn/Deployment/Rsync.php
index abf78ba..d207dba 100644
--- a/Mage/Task/BuiltIn/Deployment/Rsync.php
+++ b/Mage/Task/BuiltIn/Deployment/Rsync.php
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ class Mage_Task_BuiltIn_Deployment_Rsync
         }
 
         $command = 'rsync -avz '
-                 . $this->_excludes($excludes + $userExcludes) . ' '
+                 . $this->_excludes(array_merge($excludes, $userExcludes)) . ' '
                  . $this->_config['deploy']['deploy-from'] . ' '
                  . $this->_config['deploy']['user'] . '@' . $this->_config['deploy']['host'] . ':' . $this->_config['deploy']['deploy-to'];
 
diff --git a/bin/mage.php b/bin/mage.php
index dbf51cc..13b6b5a 100644
--- a/bin/mage.php
+++ b/bin/mage.php
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 # mage add environment production
 # mage deploy to:production
 
+date_default_timezone_set('UTC');
 
 $baseDir = dirname(dirname(__FILE__));