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I’m almost two weeks late (aside from sharing on LinkedIn) with this one but we did a thing at work. Introducing the new Woo: A revitalized brand for a new commerce landscape. Tamara goes over it in the post but this one has been a long time coming. It all happened internally, every team at […]
17.2.2025 19:14New Woo[…] Wolverine some point when it came on Disney+) so it’s my plan for 2025 to track everything. My digital music scrobbles automatically but with my current set up, it’s still manual. If anyone has solid straight forward […]
7.1.2025 21:19Comment on My 2024 in Music by My 2024 in Viewing – doug dot blog…AKA how much TV/Movies did I watch? Although I’ve had an account for a few years, I really leaned into using Trakt.tv as much as possible this year. I wasn’t consistent with adding episodes after watching them – i.e. I have a massive spike in August when I marked almost all of The Office as […]
7.1.2025 21:17My 2024 in ViewingLast.fm's year-end reports are detailed and nostalgic for me. I love discovering hidden musical gems and fun stats!
6.1.2025 20:09My 2024 in Musicblink are “back” and I love it. It’s like being 15 and hearing Enema again. I’m catching a few nice throwbacks to everything in their career. A few BCR and +44 hints at least. (Yes, yes I am tagging this as Music Monday as I first put it on yesterday.)
24.10.2023 10:14ONE MORE TIME…[…] be, and we feel grateful about it—so grateful that we frequently express it in the form of public kudos. Praise and recognition bring joy and more gratitude, so once you put the kudos machine to work it […]
5.7.2023 11:53Comment on Giving Kudos and celebrating success by Visualizing Diversity at Automattic – Data for Breakfast[…] I only found my one and two year anniversary posts of joining Automattic, and the mention of my booking in my Sabbatical but not of the actual […]
29.6.2023 08:30Comment on Planning to do nothing by Seven years – doug dot blog…Seven is my favourite number. I wouldn’t say lucky since I can’t tie any luck to it but it is a number I’m fond of. Looking back on my blog posts, as someone who is often fond of anniversaries or milestones, I only found my one and two year anniversary posts of joining Automattic, and […]
29.6.2023 08:29Seven yearsIn reply to <a href="https://doug.blog/2022/04/18/moving-on-from-happiness/#comment-6340">Bill Blair</a>. Yea, same company, new role in a new(ish) team.
18.4.2022 13:32Comment on Moving on from Happiness by DougSame company? Bill
18.4.2022 13:05Comment on Moving on from Happiness by Bill Blair[…] cliched but unintentional “New Year, new start” mentality, and 10 days later I was on another rotation, this time to Day One support team. A week later, a new job posting went live. I paused many times […]
18.4.2022 10:16Comment on A change of course by Moving on from Happiness – doug dot blog…Six years to the day that I started my Automattic trial, I’m no longer a Happiness Engineer. The past six months need a fair few posts on their own (sabbatical, rotation, other stuff), and I realise I’m dropping this in here after silence but felt it was a clean start to dust off the old […]
18.4.2022 10:16Moving on from HappinessHey cousin, I don’t check Facebook often so I rarely know what’s going on…. I will always support you. God bless you and your family. I have been working on the family tree. I can send you what I have for the Blairs. Love, HazelAnne
23.6.2021 14:58Comment on A Father’s Day. by HazelAnneDear Doug, Can't begin to tell you how much Bill and I appreciate your letter. As Bill says we never believed the stories we were being told. However we stayed in touch with your mum because we were determined not to "lose" our only BLAIR nephews. Once we knew you were able to make up your own mined, all correspondence with the Aitkens stopped. Thanking God for bringing you together with your dad. Love, Auntie Isobel.
21.6.2021 22:08Comment on A Father’s Day. by Isobel BlairYou know that we are supportive of you and never believed the story we were being fed. Thank you for being there now for Alan. Sorry that I can no longer travel back to Scotland. Bill
21.6.2021 15:14Comment on A Father’s Day. by Bill Blair[…] one for phone calls or internet, he is a very people person. I lost contact with him for a while, and wrote about that, but he’s safe and doing well all things […]
20.6.2021 17:19Comment on My father has Alzheimer’s by A Father’s Day. – doug dot blog…A long time coming. I’ll preface this by saying this will make a handful of people unhappy but it has been playing on my mind for the last week or so, distracting me from work and day to day life, as Father’s Day approached. I need to post this. Content warning? I’d add emotional abuse/manipulation […]
20.6.2021 15:00A Father’s Day.Today marks four months until my sabbatical starts and 25 days until I hit the qualifying point for that “perk” – 5 years at Automattic. I got the final date in March and got those dates locked down using our home built scheduling tool (Your team can use this same thing – https://happy.tools – we […]
4.6.2021 21:36Planning to do nothingJames Whatley posted this morning and it’s a good one. There’s so much to unpack in it from my perspective, I think I’ll leave it there for now. I know I’m one of the lucky ones. Throughout all this I’ve kept my job, the roof over my head, and – frankly – my life. On […]
1.6.2021 22:18On WritingToday is definitely the first time I have felt springtime year. Walking out on the dog walk just now, you’d be forgiven for thinking it was late afternoon. And in 15 minutes, it’s turn a shade darker. The colours of Balgay Cemetery hit me as Chew-dog and I walked through. This morning on the way […]
10.5.2021 20:41Spring colours