New-Age Anonymous

You used to be branded a recluse if you were a techno-geek.

Now it appears the tables have turned.

Last weekend Google-lovers in the Bergerhausen area of Essen, Western Germany, apparently egged houses whose owners had opted to blur them out on Google's well-loved Street View.

Not satisfied with a good old-fashioned egging, the vandals taped 'Google's cool' notes to their mailboxes.

Yes Google's cool, but is criminal damage on Google's behalf really that cool? Really? Nothing more imaginative going on up there? Nothing better with which to ocupy your time? I'm already shuddering at the possible IQ of the perpetrators.

Google was quick to "distance itself completely" from the craziness saying of those who chose the blur: "we respect their wishes".

It's quite some world when you can't even choose anonymity for fear of being targeted as a kill-joy.

My other-half remains free of even Facebook. I know this is a serious slur on new-age humanity but each to their own, no? In years to come my Grandchildren will probably disown their wayward Gran for her online idiocy, while Granddad takes the limelight of their affections. The rough with the smooth, you see...

A Middleton class wedding

And so it is. A few hours ago my news-gland twitched with this little sentence from @BBCBreaking 'Clarence House has said Prince William is to marry Kate Middleton next year.'

You know, I already blogged about this - 4 years ago. Romance on a plate. This time it's ('exclusive') romance on a thimble. And this time it's actually happening.

Charly said he was "thrilled, obviously, thank you. They have been practising long enough". Living in sin - that's what I like to see from a modern-day Royal Couple.

I'm also loving New York Times reports that Kate's "solidly middle class" mum said to have previously "chewed gum and used unaristocratic words like “toilet” and “pardon” in front of the queen." What's wrong with pardon anyway? I was always told that was preferable to 'what?'

Dave of the Cam has bizarrely admitted he slept rough on the mall the night before Charly and Di's nuptials. Imagine that. I shall expect nothing less from him next year.

Wills is said to have asked Mr Middleton's permission for Kate's hand - I hope Kate's paid the same repect and asked Ben Fogal for Wills'.

The Mail are triumphant that Kate has 'worn William down', as every good woman does to her man, of course. The Sun's calling Kate Wills' 'African Queen' presumably because got engaged last month in Kenya - anything to sex-it-up, eh Murdoch?

The Guardian is awash with anti-royalist 'do we get a day off for the wedding - and then another for the divorce?', and you know the digital age has truly arrived when Queeny tweeted it as @BritishMonarchy. I'm sure they could have come up with a better twitter name for her than that...

All that is left is for 9 months of media-glare, fanfare and souvenir production. Good luck to you, middle-class Kate. Your face is already on the tea towels...