{"id":952,"date":"2005-08-19T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-19T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/?p=952"},"modified":"2005-08-19T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-19T12:00:00","slug":"the-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/19\/the-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dog"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some of you will have noticed that I\ufffdve finally added a photo to my profile. This young man is called The Dog and lives on the comfy seat in my house along with various other strange animals (notably Flatcat, Tiggs and Bill, who I might post a photo of later. The Dog has a keen interest in all scientific subjects but his aim in life is to become a DBA. Here he\ufffds wearing my Sun Microsystems id, which they unfortunately recovered from me at the end of my contract. He hasn\ufffdt been the same since.<\/p>\n

For those in the know, there\ufffds also a certain Stanley Road quality to the photo 😉
Cheers,<\/p>\n

Doug (and The Dog)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some of you will have noticed that I\ufffdve finally added a photo to my profile. This young man is called The Dog and lives on the comfy seat in my house along with various other strange animals (notably Flatcat, Tiggs and Bill, who I might post a photo of later. The Dog has a keen… Continue reading The Dog<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":928,"url":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/21\/rip-dog\/","url_meta":{"origin":952,"position":0},"title":"RIP Dog","date":"October 21, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"The Dog has had his run for now.Although I find the prevalence of portrait photos on the internet faintly amusing and embarassing, with the conference coming up, it might be worth people being able to put a name to a face prior to the bloggers dinner, for example.I have lots\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 8 comments","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":838,"url":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/10\/home-sweet-home\/","url_meta":{"origin":952,"position":1},"title":"Home Sweet Home","date":"March 10, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"I think I've been missed. 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