Swandives

A few years ago, J lent me Neal Stephenson's Snowcrash. At the time I was reading EE Doc Smith's Lenseman series and it took me a couple of weeks to get around to it. Silly, silly me. I still love Snowcrash. And, being the first NS I read, it holds a special place in my heart.

But enuf of all that reminiscing malarky. The thing that was completely mindblowing to me at the time was his illustration of the metaverse concept. And how a virus could completely screw it all up. That's an extremely simplistic synopsis, I know, but bear with me.

Today I hear about this mad trojan that infects your computer, steals your World of Warcraft login, logs in, gets all your virtual credits and steals them. And they can then be converted to moula. OK, so this isn't exactly new - I'm behind the times - but Snowcrash came to mind as soon as I heard about it.

For more on the trojan, go here

As an aside, why does 'Trojan' have a capital T? I can understand it were we talking horses or people from Troy, but we're not. It has become a generic term imo and I'm all for doing away with the cap.