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Give me five!

It’s that time again!

Five-year-olds are cheerful, energetic, and enthusiastic. They enjoy planning, and spend a great deal of time discussing who will do what. They especially enjoy dramatic play […] Five-year-olds are more sensitive to the needs and feelings of others around them. It is less difficult for them to wait for a turn or to share toys and material. “Best friends” become very important.

This also seems like an appropriate time to mourn the imminent demise of GeoCities, on which this site originated. I know GeoCities sites had a tendency to be incredibly (some might say universally) naff and poorly designed, but I’m also quite fond of the days when people actually tried to hand-build their own websites rather than merely populate Facebook or the ultra-simple Twitter. (I realise this makes me sound like a grumpy old man, but I’m allowed a little bit of fondness ) And now that we have services with the ease and flexibility of WordPress I’m not sure that I would have even bothered learning how to create my own site had I come along a couple of years later than I did. So thank you, GeoCities, for being alluring enough to start me up yet rubbish enough to move me on at the right time!

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6 Comments on :
Give me five!

  1. Andyyyyyyyy says:

    I know it wouldn’t be correct, but don’t you just think "Welcome to Dominic Selves Web Site" would sound better??

  2. Red Dalek says:

    This is a contentious issue with my sisters so I’m not even going to go there…

  3. Lucy says:

    Happy Birthday!

    xxxxx

  4. Tasha says:

    Good call, Dom

  5. Abbi says:

    My three years of blogging seem shameful now by comparison…

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