My brain hurts
Not because the material was overly hard, but because of how many hours I spent studying the most dry material in the world. I didn't want to waste $258 dollars, so I had to make sure I passed! 
So after a week of work, I get to add a new line to my resume, and use the picture below on my business card (lol):
Google Wave invites
So I received my invite to Google Wave today, and have 20 invites to pass out. If you're interested either shoot me an email, or leave a comment here or on Facebook. First come first served.
Update: To be more clear on this. What I have are "nominations", and not invites. I assume that means they won't be instant like the invites for gmail were. We'll have to wait and see I guess. 1 nomination sent so far.
Interesting article on the format wars
I've always believed early adopters of new technology are stupid, and it's been proven time and time again. The latest, obviously, was with those who rushed out to get their HD-DVD players and re-buy their entire library, only to have Bluray come out on top.
Or did it? According to this article Toshiba has licensed it's HD-DVD format to China, who is now producing it's own CBHD disks with the capacity of HD-DVD, and the price of normal DVDs. As the article explains, this could be the final nail in Sony's coffin when it comes to Bluray.
But, don't get too excited. Anyone who's been paying even the slightest amount of attention to the latest trends can see that all optical media is going the way of the dinosaur. So what's the next step then? Online streaming. It's already happening on dozens of sites like Hulu and Netflix.
But it too has some rather large obstacles. The largest being the US's pitiful broadband speeds, and bandwidth caps major ISP's are looking to impose.