I would never travel first class on a UK train under normal circumstances. The cost is prohibitive and no journey is long enough to really merit it. Yet I collect my tickets from the little red machine, only to discover that I will be traveling among the gentler classes. I'm still not entirely sure how this happened. The price I paid seemed reasonable but I know, from previous encounters with Virgin's website, that little makes sense when booking online.

This is the question posed by Randolph Harrison at Capitalism 2.0. He caused a storm of controversy with this post which suggests it is. He received his share of criticism from Second Lifers, including a raft of people claiming to run profitable businesses.

I have just stumbled across Warren Ellis' thoughts on Second Life entitled Second Life Sketches. They're an interesting read for this non-Second Lifer and have me thinking about test driving the linux client, though I suspect that my video card might not handle it.

Well Ubuntu is now chugging through a dist-upgrade in the background to bring me dapper. This is the kind of thing I love Debian for, you can always rely on it pretty much working when you a dist-upgrade after a cock-eyed installation procedure. I hope this does. I have been really impressed by Ubuntu's hardware autodetection. I guess it's great when it works, and it did on my pretty basic old p3 workhorse. I used breezy for a few days and found the default environment pretty easy to use, but I found it hid a bit too much detail for me.

Oldboy is the most super cool thing, at least stylistically, that I've seen for a while.