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Monthly Archives: October 2009

A tribute to GeoCities

October 28, 2009 – 12:49 am

Today is a sad day in internet land: Yahoo has finally pulled the plug on GeoCities.
GeoCities was one of the first free, design-your-own-page website hosting services on the net, and was the place many of today’s web masters, bloggers and sundry other geeks popped their web design cherries.
Sure, most will remember it as a haven [...]

By Ruth Brown | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (5)

Hi, I’m First Dog on the Moon, but you can call me Penelope

October 14, 2009 – 9:41 am

During this morning’s editorial meeting we accidentally found out that had First Dog on The Moon been born a girl, his name would not, of course, be Handsome Mr Dog, it would be:
Penelope.
We also discovered he was a Catholic surprise baby.
This all turned into a fun game of:
What Would You Be Called If You Were [...]

By Sophie Black | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (17)