Sunday Reboot:
Micryon came up with the idea that we should launch instead a day prior to the official launch, but only have block rewards at 1 GPUC for the first 2600 blocks. This allows for people to ramp up the network hash gradually to avoid forking, allows people to tweak their rigs on the actual network, and alleviates all the traffic to the wallet downloads.
That is until the 2601 block. then fork, wallets etc.. not going to input a lot of info here, just glad someone is finally thinking, however; you need to work on the result, going to be interesting to watch from the side lines.