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I'm being facetious here. As far as apologies go that's a pretty weak attempt.

Heh, my bad! This is the problem with text based conversation between strangers :).

It was dumb and passive-aggressive comment (by me) so every kind of response is fair game, I guess... :)

I doubt this would have gone any better face-to-face. In a text-based conversation you at least have the opportunity to reflect before you reply.