It's kind of mind-blowing how high profile my project at work is becoming--- I know this sounds like boasting, but it's honestly pure bewilderment on my part.

For example, last week our program manager mentioned off-handedly that Secretary Colin Powell might be dropping by my team's office to see a demo of PowerMeter. This is the sort of thing that is usually (a) overstated and (b) likely to get canceled.

So it was a little surprising when he actually walked in. Fortunately the product worked fine, and we weren't horribly embarrassed. Hooray!