Nearly Success!! Big Progress!! - 02/14/2007 - 1:37 AM:

I stayed up late battling a computer that couldn't figure out how to render a video file like it's supposed to. I was tired and frustrated. I was worrying that maybe I was just pissing people off inside of Google, and not accomplishing anything.

...And then I finally finished the video, got it uploaded (almost two days later than I meant to - you'll understand when you see the video), and checked my e-mail one last time before crashing. The short of it? Looks like I'm going to get a chance to be heard out. I just got an e-mail from Google with the heading, "We can hear you :)"

There's no official time or details yet, but it looks like I've got someone to talk to, now. This makes me happy. More than anything - more than worrying that Google might hear the idea and not like it - I was worried the idea might not be heard at all. Can Google hear me?

Turns out that they can.

It makes the video I just spent all day on sort of obsolete, but I'm going to post it anyway simply because I battled my computer too much not to. Not posting it now would be like letting the computer win, and if that happens... well, pretty soon it forgets who is boss. I often miss my OSX.

I'll keep things updated here as I learn more. But now I'm tired, and I'm heading to bed. Thanks, Google. I owe you.