Given the company I keep, I probably shouldn't be surprised that three bloggers independently sent me a virus this weekend. There's always a danger of that, I suppose, when one is playing in the blogosphere, which is full of sharp edges and unwashed opinions. They say that the best marketing is viral, so perhaps this is all a good thing, except for the fact that the little bug invaded my home email account and promptly impregnated the computers of everyone who has ever received an email from me.

Given that approximately 90% of the email I send is in the form of nasty yet impotent threats to large faceless organizations that have aggrieved me in some real or imagined fashion, I'm actually cool with this. My apologies, however, to any innocents I've unwittingly infected.

If you think about it, that apology has lots of applications.