Is technology making me doubt myself?

The unfortunate answer is a resounding YES! I've heard it said that once you use those SatNav systems you come to rely on them constantly and having visited a place once, you are unlikely to remember how to get to it as you were looking at your SatNav system and not out the window at landmarks such as churches and pubs etc. I know that feeling having taken many wrong turns on the way to basketball matches on the south side of the city only to remember the exact way the next time, it being clearly moulded into my head.

I think that dictionary.com is my SatNav experience... I used to be a very good speller. If I were a sad nerd I would say I once won two fancy pencils in primary school(thanks Mrs. Glacken), when fancy pencils were the cool thing to have. I now find that when I'm typing emails in Hotmail, or for instance posts on this blog, I'm now double-checking words far too frequently on dictionary.com! What's that all about?! Well firstly, I don't trust anything free, no such thing as a free meal and all that (point well-received that dictionary.com is in fact also free), and secondly, sure when it's there I might as well use it, as I wouldn't want to be seen to be a bad speller in public! I simply hate receiving emails with spelling mistakes. It's like going to a unisex bathroom and seeing the splashes the male occupant before you has left for your amusement... which shall lead me nicely to my next blog.

Btw, for those of you who hate bad punctuation as much as I hate bad spelling, I'm afraid I wasn't listening when the lesson on where to place commas was being taught. Back then I was pretty much a black and white type of gal, liked maths and accounting because there was always a right answer, had no time for the creative side of me or the world and thus tended to switch off during English class. I believe I once got a C on a paper, understandable really since it contained the words "hopped on Banquo". I don't remember who hopped on Banquo or why they hopped on Banquo. I distinctly remember three friends pissing themselves laughing at the line as I bemoaned my C. I digress as always. Punctuation lovers, I apologise! Feel free to correct, or not, I do not take kindly to criticism or should that be critique? :)