"Blog"

       A person of my generation looks at spell-check on a computer and marvels at such a thing being available to marginal spellers...or slightly careless ones... as we all get to be BECAUSE spell-check is there to back us up.

       Yes, you detect a little old-fogyism there.  Us old-timers had to know how to spell.

       So I guess my feelings are a little mixed when I find out the computer program for my email doesn't know the word "blog."  It always underlines it in red.  How can that be?  How can something so contemporary and with the digital age be behind on the word "blog"?   Part of me is glad it's out of date in that respect.  The other part of me sniffs and puts up my nose when I see it:  "So old-fashioned."