This is absolutely great. The Layer Tennis match for today has commentary by Heather Armstrong of dooce.com. If you haven’t ever been to dooce.com, get off your butt and do it. She’s an absolutely brilliant writer, and she’s got a great sense of humor. To see her commenting on a match of Layer Tennis will be fantastic.

Leaving for the Internet Healthcare Conference tomorrow. It’s being held in Vegas this year, so I get to stay at the Venetian. How rad is that? Pretty rad, if I do say so myself.

So, check out some Layer Tennis (if you’re into that whole sort of thing), and say hi in the forums, it’s usually pretty rowdy in there (what with it being Friday and all - most of us cracked out on caffeine, and waiting for the clock to hit 5:00).

I was sitting in on a meeting today where we were discussing redesigning a website. Keep in mind that I was probably the only one there that had any actual idea of what goes into a good website. I knew this, and I was ok with this - until one of the ladies spoke up and said she wanted the ability to be able to have pop-ups. You know, to pop-up promotions. As in pop-ups.

I stopped her dead in her tracks with a stare I’ve honed by practicing on infants and small rodents. “Why on Earth would you want to do that?” I asked.

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