Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Spam Queen

We all have relatives who couldn't care a damn about computers. Some amongst us also have relatives who discovered computers and the Internet, like them, and now seem addicted! Imagine how irritating it can be when your uncle or aunt starts sending you forwards you read two years ago! We look upon with pity at the plight of Princes Henry and William when we discovered that the Queen, aged 81 when this was written, has taken to the Internet with full gusto, and regularly bombards the inboxes of the young princes along with the rest of her immediate family.

In true blue - blooded fashion, the Queen dictates her e-mails instead of writing them. Having said that, the monarch is pretty tech - savvy: she owns a mobile phone and an iPod. Just last year she made her annual Christmas Day message avaliable for the first time as a podcast. We just hope, for the princes' sake, that she lightens up on those forwards...

An aside: it's "Queen's English," meaning her own. So does she use spell check?

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