This is how it works: 1. Delve into your blog archive. 2. Find your 23rd post (or closest to). 3. Find the fifth sentence (or closest to). 4. Post the text of the sentence in your blog along with these instructions. Ponder it for meaning, subtext or hidden agendas. 5. Tag five people to do the same.

Okay, Michelle, here's my 23rd blog, 5th line: "It really ticks me off that we have so little protection from this type of intrusion."

I wrote this about blog spam after I got hit with two posts. That's when I enabled the password thing.

As for pondering...hmmm.

"Pinky, Are you pondering what I'm pondering?"

"I think so, Brain. What you mean is that people who cross the line of civility and break the social contract by abusing your space to carry out their own personal enrichment agendas fill you with loathing and disgust. Narf."

"Obviously, Pinky, you were sleeping when I briefed you on our plan. We are going to use a hidden subliminal message in the templates available on our blog space that will force people to join our group. The message will enthrall the viewer and make him vulnerable to the second subliminal message that we encode with a group blog, forcing people to send all personal and financial information to us. Thereby allowing us to control all wealth and use it to buy our way to Capital Hill where we will take over the WORLD!"

"Poink. Are you sure you weren't really upset at being spammed?"

"Sigh."