Yes, I had a bit of fun with Twitter in the Idaho Statesman last Friday (apparently sending some of the local Twitterati into a twizzy. Sheesh, peeps, I even pre-apologized!) But that doesn't mean I'm anti-social networking. I've been following the development of Google Wave mostly because of its outrageous, er, impossible, um, intriguing claims. (If someone sends me an invite, I PROMISE to sign up.) However, this early review from the San Jose Mercury-News is not promising.

"You open an e-mail. You start reading, and then the person who sent it opens the e-mail and starts typing more stuff into the e-mail while you're reading it. And then you start typing back in that e-mail. You add a picture, or a video, or a map. Then the sender starts editing what you wrote. And then you invite 12 more people to edit the e-mail. And then you realize you've got 10 other waves you're trying to keep up with.

It's at this point that your head explodes. Welcome to Google Wave."

Sounds a little illogical. Then again, I'm the brainiac who decided his high school computer science project would be to program "Pac-Man" on a TRS-80. In Pascal. (Remember that programming language, geeks?) Google Wave is probably the world's next religion.