Pistons are up right now 63-51 in the 4th against the Cavaliers in Game 7 of the series...the split second Lebron exits the playoffs, I will cease caring at all about the NBA Playoffs, or the NBA as a whole.

David Stern was asked the question during an in-game interview on whether he thought Lebron was as good as Michael Jordan. David Stern didn't like the question at all, saying "one player isn't going to carry the league anymore." Uh, hate to break it to you Commish, but Lebron is a lot bigger than you or the entire league. He's the show. Not the Pistons, arguably the best team in the NBA and certainly best defensive team. Not the Heat, with the other game-changer in the league, Shaq, on their team. Only Lebron matters in a league that continues to be as irrelevant as the day Michael Jordan stopped winning championships with the Bulls.

In fact, I'd be willing to bet that you could go back in time a few years and find that the rapid rise of the NFL's popularity has come largely at the expense of the NBA. And if Stern thinks he can get away without acknowledging the larger-than-the-league status of Lebron, and how important he is to the success of the league over the next decade, he better just go ahead and retire.

And that's enough words wasted on that!

Back from a whirlwind tour of Chicago (for a work conference), Nashville (for Evan's graduation), and Dallas (for Melissa's graduation). Got to see Gaurav and Noah up in Chicago and go to a White Sox game, which was great. Noah gave me an autographed Imogen Heap disc, addressed and made out to me personally, from Coachella that he got ... which was really cool.

Ready for what should be an interesting week here in Beaufort before heading up to Nashville for 5 or so days.

"We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action." - Frank Tibolt

Been a while since I posted here ... I tend to blog a lot and then not blog at all, so I guess I'll be getting back into a routine of blogging a lot for a while.

Let me say something about blogging and social networking and how they reconcile with a workplace environment. First of all, anyone who's seen my piano website (www.bradleymetrock.com) has access to this blog, as I am pretty sure it's linked through there. Even if it isn't, this blog comes up in the first page of results if you Google me, so there is no doubt that there are people from work (and who knows where else) reading this.

We are in an interesting transitional period where you have older folks accessing the internet who a) don't understand the internet itself and b) don't understand the internet culture. The meshing of this older group and people like me who are younger and fluent in technology is 99% of the source of the perceived problem of employees having a "private" life out there on the internet.

The way it is now, somebody my age has a blog, or has a MySpace account, or has a personal website, and that is viewed as a liability at work. I've seen it numerous times and already at my current job I've seen online "stuff" (have to keep this vague) negatively affect multiple people.

For me, I don't say anything in this space, or elsewhere on the internet, that I wouldn't say in person. I'm just as honest here as I would be in person, and while I don't blog about people I don't like or that really suck to deal with, those people pretty much know who they are. No there's not really any secrets to be unearthed by reading this.

And that's the way this whole internet/blogging/social networking stuff needs to work. Honesty in person, and honesty online. No two-faced stuff, no talking behind somebody's back, none of that. If you say the same things online as you do out there in the "real world," you shouldn't have any problem. If you don't, you can bet the internet's going to come back and bite you.

Consequently, I don't like to see people my age avoid the internet and avoid creating their own "online footprint" simply out of fear. This temporary time of aging baby boomers casting aspersions on younger folks who use the internet to blog and to have a voice outside of work is something to be cognizant of ... but also something that will be over within the next 5-10 years.

Not to go crazy with links, but this GameSpot column discusses the fascinating Gamerpoints system Microsoft has built into the XBox 360. There is nothing like competition to motivate people and bring out certain behavior...in this case, buying lots of games. And even with the highly-publicized shortage in 360 systems available in the US, games are just flying off the shelf at a rate of 3-4 per system AT LAUNCH. By now, that's probably up another whole game or two with the release of Oblivion, Ghost Recon, Top Spin, and other quality titles since the start of 2006.

And another huge surprise: Our President, known for strength on national security only because he continues to throw unconscionable amounts of money toward Iraq and Afghanistan, still hasn't even secured his own backyard.



Edit: This is my 100th blog post. Not sure if that's a good thing or bad thing but looking forward to 100 more.

Surprise, surprise: There are more Virgos on the Forbes billionaires list than any other astrological sign. Virgos are known to be "hardworking, determined, detail-oriented, and analytical," according to the article. Berkshire Hathaway's Warren Buffett and Oracle's Larry Ellison are among the Virgo billionaires.

The iTest just received substantial corporate funding from the Alabama Power Foundation, marking nearly four months to the day of receiving word the IRS accepted our non-profit application.

The 2006 iTest is going to debut a variety of new technologies that will improve the test-taker experience by allowing online collaboration and communication. Combine this with a flawless actual test and we're going to be in great shape by the end of the year.

5 songs you need to download. The sooner, the better.

1) "Cab" - Train. Their new album is really different than anything they've ever done, in a good way, and this single (which is really doing well at radio apparently) is great.

2) "Touch the Sky" - Kanye West. Don't just download this song, but this video is a MUST-SEE. This guy is as hilarious as he is musically talented. The song is just awesome and better than anything else I've heard from Kanye West's Grammy-winning album. Oh, and also features some random guest rapper doing an actually-decent cameo appearance, something that doesn't usually happen unless that guest rapper is LUDAAAA.

3) "Who Says You Can't Go Home" - Bon Jovi w/ Jennifer Nettles. Bon Jovi isn't the highest on my list of quality acts but this song is really good. Bon Jovi does usually have great melodies and this song is one of the better ones I've heard, and Nettles really is a nice choice complementing him. DOWNLOAD NOW.

4) "The Real Thing" - Bo Bice. Another Alabama boy winning American Idol...but who cares unless you deliver some good material after the fact? This is a great song that Bice was performing back on Idol a few weeks ago. I play this song all the time, love it.

5) The entire "See the Sun" album by Black Lab. Led by amazing talent Paul Durham, this band has been around since the 90's delivering moody, spirited albums. This entire album that was recently released is just awesome.

STOP READING AND GO DOWNLOAD NOWWWWWWWWWWWW

Project budget and business plan due very soon ... so its starting to get tense around the TCMH office...

Actual conversation from earlier today from when I was about to go to lunch:

"I'm going to head out and get lunch now, and then come back and work more on the business plan."

"No. Haven't you already eaten lunch? Here, go have a donut (points to donuts from early morning meeting) ... donuts are good..."

LOL...

My XBox 360 just died. You have really got to be kidding me.

Whoa...big news....Bonds cheated!! What a surprise! This upcoming book about Bonds' steroid usage in the late 90's and early 00's ought to be pretty interesting, but as you know, some of us predicted this fall from grace a while back. (cough, cough, BondsCheated.com!)

Anyway, Bonds is an idiot but an idiot who will likely end up with the all-time home run record. Like I've said before, I'm really counting on him winning it because I look forward to watching the firestorm of backlash and outrage that will erupt when it happens.

I'm now blogging from the strange world of Beaufort, South Carolina. I haven't had cable TV or internet for days now (rough, I know) which has cast this strange silence over my apartment when I get home from these long days at work at Tri-Command (tri-command.com). Its given me time to think...and to breathe...in peace. And I've been able to spend more time just reflecting on life over the past few months than I've had in a long time.

I have avoided blogging about the negative aspects of my job situation and will continue to do so, but certainly I have dwelled on it while being down here. The project director here, Peter Ross, is just a magnificent managerial talent and has really re-energized me. His energy is infectious and he just flat-out gets things done. That's my kind of person.

Enough about that lest I wander into a topic that I would rather not discuss.

The fantasy baseball draft is coming up next Monday. That's going to be insane...one of my favorite times of the year. This year, we're drafting for a league that will run for the next 3 years, making this draft even more important. Better start preparing now ... signing off. Catch you guys later.

Prince just KILLED it tonight on Saturday Night Live. Twice. The guy is getting older but he is still a world-class talent. Luckily, I recorded SNL on the DVR so I can watch it again tomorrow. His new album, "3121," comes out in March, and Tamar, his protege, has an album coming out in May. Good stuff.

Today marked eight months since Lori and I got married. Seems weird, doesn't it? It doesn't seem like that long ago. Marriage is a good thing, and if you're willing to work at it, it can become a great thing. Man is not meant to go through life alone.

Oh, and one last thing, before I forget....Pittsburgh 23, Seattle 21.

I am beginning to change my mind on Google as both a sound investment and a viable, sustainable corporation.

This is a company with one competitive advantage, their search engine technology, that they have parlayed into a massive explosion of services. The thing is, what other services do they provide that are either a) essential or b) differentiated within their respective markets?

They are beginning to remind me of the 35-year-old guy with umpteen graduate degrees but no real-world experience. Pick a direction...take one of these ideas you've got to the next level already. Stop creating more breadth, and add some depth to what you're doing!

For example, I had been wanting to see Kobe Bryant's 81-point extravaganza for a week or so now, and I knew Google had it on there. So I go to Google Video to download it, and discover that Google's video site is one of the most unorganized, thrown-together hack jobs anywhere. (Go take a look at it for yourself.) Anyone who has dealt with iTunes knows what a good media store interface looks like. Google ought to go check that out for themselves, actually. The clunky site made me register before I had the luxury of downloading a grainy video that actually didn't really "download" at all ... it still makes me stream parts of it and actually be online to watch it. And, of course, trying to put it on my video iPod didn't work at all.

Who knows what videos are actually on the site...the ability to navigate around Google's video site effectively is basically nonexistent. Oh, but they do have MacGyver episodes...

So now we're back to the 35-year-old grad student metaphor, except now we also find that this guy can't dress himself. The sense of aesthetics on Google are a complete lost cause.

Technology companies should understand this by now: aesthetics are everything. Look at the evolution of the GUI and the history of Windows, for example. Or look at the success of the iPod over similar, if not technically superior, rivals in that marketplace.

The place where they REALLY didn't get the whole aesthetics thing is in their handling of their stock price, where the decision to not split the stock as it appreciated up into the $300+ realm for the first time was terribly misguided. Even tech companies can be victims of just plain bad advice.

And hey, I still like the company. I like their strategy of hiring smart folks, as hiring PhDs has never been cheaper. But they aren't adequately capitalizing on the big, bright ideas their labor force is providing them.

Their push for an advertising-subsidized, entirely online suite of productivity software sounds like a trainwreck waiting to happen. Their questioning of "why should I ever carry my most important documents around under my arm" shows a complete misunderstanding of why laptop computers evolved from desktops in the first place: security. Yeah, maybe your laptop can get stolen or something, but its a hell of a lot better than the document being permanently online.

Microsoft is one example of a company that broadens its horizons, and then immediately moves to dominate the field. What they've done with their XBox brand in such a short amount of time is pretty spectacular, and its clear they understand what it will take in an incredibly competitive market to continue to succeed.

But if there's one company out there that's squandering an opportunity perhaps even to a more tragic extent than Google, its the folks at Wikipedia. The concept of a free encyclopedia that is open to editing by any member of the general populace never was meant to be sustainable. Marketing is too important of a corporate weapon to be defanged by some silly website, and instead of working with major corporate entities to give them increased control over their own Wikipedia entries, they have steadfastly maintained a philosophy of neutrality. Which, of course, should give them comfort long after they've been violently shoved out of business by some corporation that has just had it with dealing with them.

A final lesson to be gleaned from some of these tech companies is that there most definitely is such thing as a bad customer. Apple has been a long sufferer of the "bad customer," with their ridiculous ideologues preaching the gospel of Apple, iMac, and all things not called PC on every street corner for decades now. Google and Wikipedia both suffer from this problem, to a lesser but still significant extent. No one wants to hear overly aggressive nerds spew forth some diatribe about why everyone should use X service or Y website. Indeed, this is one of the best ways to speed up public backlash for a successful internet venture.

Part of this problem is inherent in the use of technology: companies with a niche (Wikipedia) or a dominating technology (Google) will draw these tech-savvy consumers. The key is adopting the appropriate brand image that constantly works to draw in the more normal members of the population as well. (An image we conscientiously employ with the iTest, as you may have noticed from previous blog entries on the topic.)

So sayonara, Google. By the time I turn 30, you'll be gone*. Wikipedia, you practically never even existed, that's how gone you are right now.



* "gone" = acquired and gutted. The brand may remain, as a highly-specific reference to either innovation in R&D efforts or search engine superiority, but the company won't. WRITE IT DOWN!

Life is expensive.

That is all.

OK, its been a while...I'm going to make a more concerted effort to blog more in 2006 as I approach my 100th post! (What a huge event that will be ... lol ...)

Looking back at 2005, it was a fantastic year. Finished business school at Vanderbilt, got married, accepted new job, moved to a bigger condo, began work on a new album (though delayed for the past couple of months in making any further progress), and made big strides in my personal favorite investment, the iTest.

The iTest received its non-profit status earlier this year, coinciding with a gigantic increase in participation across the United States (and even internationally, with us allowing a school from Poland to participate as an experiment). Participation rocketed over 500% as the event moved closer to my goal of the largest high school academic competition in the United States. Griffin Technology signed on as the sponsor of the event, paving the way for significantly increased sponsorship interest from a variety of sources as we enter 2006. This will be the year we become as much of a financial success as we are a popular success...and don't forget about the iTest CS, either, which I am leaning heavily toward restricting participation to only a handful of students as we pilot the event. I've appointed Evan to run the event, which is cool because he'll do a great job.

2005 saw the release of the XBox 360 and the continued mainstream acceptance of video games as an acceptable medium of storytelling and social gathering. The sheer horsepower of the system is something to behold, and I can't wait for Nintendo's Revolution and the PS3 as well. I NEED TO FIND A WAY TO INVEST IN THIS INDUSTRY ASAP.

Last thing here is that 2006 will see the launch of a couple new web ventures for me, particularly the launch of NCAATournament.TV. More on this later but it's going to be cool.

Until next time...

Added some more domains to the portfolio today...last ones for a while, most likely!

AllMyShows.TV
FantasyHQ.TV
BradleyAndLori.com
LoriAndBradley.com (obviously, these two will go for a TON...lol...)
NFLChampion.com (love this one)
MarinersWorldSeries.com
PrivatizedHousing.com (gotta have Actus represented)
StarWarsSeven.com
GoogleStalker.com
USIMC.com
USIMO.com

I'm really starting to enjoy this domain stuff...there's so many different possibilities in turning these investments into revenue streams that its easy to get excited about it!

Back in Nashville after spending Thanksgiving in Birmingham. Of course, even before heading down to Birmingham, I was one of the brave souls camping out for an XBox 360 outside of the Best Buy down in Cool Springs. I arrived at 8:15, after my weekly tutoring session with the 8th grader I tutor in Algebra, expecting to survey the scene and report back home to grab what I needed and maybe catch some Z's before heading out in the early AM.

Unfortunately, didn't happen that way. When I arrived at Best Buy, I discovered a crowd of about 30 people were already there...and with rumors of only 40 units to sell, I couldn't go home because that 30 people could have easily become 60 by the time I could get back. So I called up Lori, who graciously brought me extra clothes, water, and food ... and the 13 hours of waiting began.

It didn't take me long to realize it was REALLY REALLY REALLY COLD (about 20-25 degrees) and so I came up with an idea on how to beat the system. I ordered two pizzas ("Yeah, I need you to deliver to the Best Buy PARKING LOT. Yes, I am one of those XBox camper people.") and I sold the first pizza for $15 to immediately make my money back. I ate four pieces myself (half of the remaining pizza) since I was really hungry, and I took the remaining four pieces and gave two to the person in front of me and two to the person behind me in line. In exchange, I got them to agree to hold my place in line until the store opened at 9 AM the next day. I then went and got in my car and slept an incredibly-comfortable-in-comparison-to-the-alternative 5+ hours before getting up around 5:15 to make sure I was there when the Best Buy management arrived to distribute vouchers. When I got the voucher that officially marked my space in line, of course it was back to the car until the store opened just before 9.

The system itself is incredible. I picked up NBA Live '06 and Perfect Dark Zero, which are both titles I have enjoyed so far. I've started a season as the Cavs in Live and LeBron's dumping in 40+ per game in highly-realistic fashion...and the Perfect Dark game is great too. I want to get more into the multiplayer of that one on the newly revamped XBox Live...

Naturally, I've heard how crazy I am from all sorts of people for waiting out there for that long. Of course it's crazy! That's what made it so enjoyable. I like getting caught up in events like this every now and then.

It was certainly abundantly clear how far the demand for video games has come just in my lifetime. After observing the rabid fans in Nashville that were in line with me, to reading online about everything that happened across the country that day for the system launch, I'm convinced the XBox 360 will go down as a key event in video game history as the day that video games took over the living room for good.

The complement of "simple games" for people who aren't hardcore gamers can be had on Microsoft's innovative XBox Live Marketplace for a couple of bucks apiece, with current launch offerings of a dead-on port of Joust, as well as Robotron, Smash TV, and other old-school titles for cheap. Somebody in Seattle's been listening to the marketplace, obviously.

And for those hardcore gamers, the games are about to take a big step up. Perfect Dark Zero is one example of a game that has so many different gameplay options that it will make your head spin. The complexity of Elder Scrolls: Oblivion, which will be the first major RPG to hit the system and will arrive in Q1 '06, will be staggering compared to any current title on any system or even the PC. The return on consumer investment stands to be much greater than before, in terms of hours of gameplay per dollar, despite ratcheted-up cost per game from $49.99 retail to $59.99 for most titles on the system.

I could go on and on about video games and the game industry, so I'll cut that off there and address some other topics quickly:

- Headed to New York next week for Fortune's Innovation Forum. All sorts of big-time speakers there (Fred Smith of Fed Ex, Billy Beane of the A's, Starbucks chief that was the one who made the decision to bring music into the chain, #2 at Target, etc., etc.). I am EXTREMELY excited about this event. I'll also be paying a visit to the Darwin exhibit at the American History of Natural Museum (the one that's been in the news a lot lately) which Ellen, Ben's girlfriend, helped create. Toss in a critical iTest fundraising meeting on Thursday before my flight out and you've got a packed three-day period.

- Speaking of the iTest, I wholeheartedly welcome John Hart to my Board of Directors, effective immediately. (I also am simultaneously installing myself as Chairman of the Board of AHSIMC as we expand into computer science and debate over the next year.)

There isn't anybody I'd rather have participate in this thing than John. Though quite obviously brilliant, I can find brains anywhere. It's his passion and heart that will hopefully rub off on our operation and make it better. There isn't anyone I know or am even aware of that lives at a greater deficit between what he deserves and what he has had happen to him, and it's his persistence and rare degree of fortitude that I so crave to make a characteristic of our fledgling enterprise.

After all, what I seem to fail to communicate to people I discuss this project with is the fascinating reality that the subject matter of our tests is increasingly peripheral to what we do. Our goal of opening up the world of competitive academics to every single student in the United States - FOR FREE - is so unprecedented that in order to position ourselves for victory, we've got to have the right personnel in place to shape the decisions that will guide us to becoming the organization we can, and will, become.

This is a step in the right direction. AHSIMC is instantaneously a better organization with John aboard.

- The Titans take on the 49ers Sunday in the "Battle for Matt Leinart." The loser of this game will likely draft at or near the top in the 2006 Draft, and will be able to select the consensus #1 pick out of USC. (Assuming, of course, the Texans luck up and win another one before the end of the season.) The Titans have been steadily improving throughout the season (though not visible in their record) and should wipe the floor with this flimsy, undisciplined group of West Coast also-rans...as long as penalties don't kill them.

- After reading an article earlier tonight on web aggregators and the profit some folks have made from portfolios of domain names by getting click-through revenue this way, I have opened up some of my own portfolio to one of the more well-known aggregators, Sedo.com, to see if I can make any money this way. Sedo.com opens my domains up to a wide market of buyers who might be interested in purchasing one of my domains (the biggest domain sale of the year, of website.com, was done through these guys earlier this year for $750,000)...so I look forward to seeing what becomes of this.

The domains I own that are listed through the service and populated with ads are:

LeBronVsTheWorld.com
Number1Pick.com
Number1OverallPick.com
NumberOneOverallPick.com
StatusQuotient.com
Sphyramid.com
ItsSanAndreasFault.com
TenYearReunion.com
TheToyTest.com
WorthAMillionBucks.com
Oltomato.com
Myoltomato.com
SanFranQuake.com
USInvitational.com
LetTOPlay.com (no ads on this one)
VGHOF.com (stands for Video Game Hall of Fame)
myVGHOF.com
TheseThingsAreSellingLikeHotcakes.com
UnitedStatesOfMath.com
UnitedStatesOfScience.com


Off to bed. Until next time...

From: Gaurav K Guliani
Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 4:39 PM
To: bradley@ahsimc.com
Subject: Re:

did you even watch the games? the white sox went 11-1!, tying the best
postseason record ever since the introduction of the wild card. they
swept the boston red sox and the houston astros. they had 4 complete game
victories in a ROW in the ALCS with 4 different pitchers (which has NEVER
been done). they didn't lose a single road game from the end of
freakin september on. they led their division from opening day to the
playoffs and won the world series, only the 5th wire-to-wire team in major
league baseball history.

you can use the fourier series, the fibonacci sequence and goldbach's
postulate all you want, but there is something to be said about dominant
pitching, clutch hitting and solid defense. if this team had more than
20,000 fans at the beginning of the season and a real star player along
the lines of derek jeter, albert pujols or even steroid monkey bonds, you
would be seeing "Fever Pitch II" at a theatre near you starring john
leguizamo as ozzie guillen. in fact, whether or not they are the luckiest
team, they certainly might be the most underrated world series winner in
the history of baseball, because no one outside of chicago or houston
watched the world series.

(by the way, i can't believe i just defended the white sox...)

On Fri, October 28, 2005 12:58 pm, bradley@ahsimc.com said:
>
> here at work eating lunch...
> i've already seen one article on it, but you'll likely see more...stating
> that the White Sox are the "luckiest team in the history of baseball."
> the basis for saying this is that their actual win total during the
> regular season (99) was 11 (!!) wins more than their "Pythagorean"
> estimate of 88 (nothing to do with triangles or anything, but its a
> predictor of wins based on team runs scored, team runs given up, and other
> factors).
>
> also, i would argue they got extremely lucky by facing the astros and not
> the cardinals, which matched up a lot better against them.
> so why not revel in it? the cubs will win it someday, long after the
> Mariners run off a dynasty of 6 or 7 World Series titles in a row.
> starting next year.
>

One of my favorite investments are internet domains. I use them with the iTest as a weapon, claiming domains that we might presumably use someday, but until then they help direct traffic to our site while warding off others who might try to copy what we do. I consider some of these domains some of AHSIMC's most prized assets as a business.

I haven't mentioned BondsCheated.com here in a while, but I hope to get around to renovating and updating the site before the 2006 MLB season. Bonds picked up where he left off in the last month of this past season, and he should be good to break Aaron's record next year...and I would love to see our site get some substantial traffic as a result of the rioting that will ensue!

I bring all of this up to say that I just picked up two new domains that I intend to build websites around sometime before the end of 2006, when I get a moment or several:

VGHOF.com will become the Video Game Hall of Fame. While GameSpot kinda has a Hall of its own, it doesn't really emphasize it at all and the games are nominated basically whenever they feel like putting a new one in there. Other than GameSpot's half-attempt at it, a Hall of Fame doesn't really exist. Ideally, I'd like to get a core group of industry professionals that could vote every year to decide which nominated titles would get in, but a more realistic approach would just be for me to decide...lol. It would certainly be quicker! Either way, its a nice domain and a project I will enjoy putting something together for at some point, as I still maintain that one day I will be a major creative force in putting together a video game.

OLTOMATO.com is the weird one so let me explain. Lori's alarm clock woke me up the other day to two radio guys talking about an ULTIMATUM, but then started calling it an "ol' tomato." I have no idea what in the hell they were talking about with this, but I then thought about the domain and putting together a site of some sort. I can see the tagline being something like "Click Here Or Else" or "[Fill In The Blank] Or Else," which would of course be the ultimatum...or ol' tomato...or something.

I mean, if someone can turn the GOOGLE domain into a gigantic billion-dollar juggernaut, you gotta think that Ol' Tomato has to be worth maybe a million or two. :)

Seriously, though, I need ideas for this site. I probably won't get around to doing anything with it until (at earliest) January '06, but fire me an email at bradley@bradleymetrock.com if something hits you. If its good, I'll cut you in, promise!

This has been a very, very good day. Put to rest a task at work that had been particularly difficult to accomplish for the past 3-4 weeks, which is great, and then the flood of emails coming in regarding today's 2005 iTest Nationwide Awards Announcement.

I don't have nearly as much time to pursue media attention as I did last year, but unfortunately last year we didn't have nearly as much of a compelling story as we do this year, with a team of 5 students across multiple schools and states claiming the championship, etc. The media will catch on eventually if we keep doing the right thing.

Which brings me to the most exciting news of all: the iTest franchise will be expanding AGAIN in 2007 with the launch of the iTest Debate. Not giving away any details just yet - not that there are many - but I'm extremely excited about the proposed format and the implementation of technology into yet another domain of academic competition. More to come.