Life In 19x19

Google Wave may be shutting down by the end of the year.

(In case you weren't yet aware.)

I think setting a rank goal is fine. Everything else should come naturally if you're dedicated to making that goal. Just don't let that goal become an obsession, or when you don't advance as fast as you'd like, or when you drop a rank, it can be devastating.

SDK in a year should be pretty easy ...