An Open Letter to Whoever Cares... Some months back I read an article in Wired Magazine written by Bruce Schneier about the sad state of airport security: "Security systems fail in one of two ways. They can fail to stop the bad guy, and they can mistakenly stop the good guy. The TSA likes to measure its success by looking at the forbidden items they have prevented from being carried onto

Texas Rulemonger Alert #456,283!!! Well, if I was looking for a little more fodder for the blog, leave it to the rule-happy bureaucrats in Austin to fill me with piss and vinegar yet again. The new e-mail circulating, at least around the Houston area, is that reporters will now either have to put quill pen to paper or use an encrypted electronic signature on all transcripts... no more signature

The Triumphant (sort of) Return of the Depoblog! Just flat run outta excuses, folks. Trouble with this business, when it's busy there's not an extra ten seconds in the day for anything non-work or -family related, and when it's slow, it's so damned depressing, getting dressed seems like a gargantuan task, much less hittin' the blog. Survived equal doses of both over the last couple months with

The power of positive thinking... Well, while watching ABC World News Tonight last night, they had an interview with a man getting take-out at my favorite Friendswood Chinese restaurant, and the surrounding area looked just fine. Couple that with calls from a couple of my neighbors, one of whom who never left, saying that the 'hood looks good, and I'm gonna breathe a sigh of relief. We're still

On the run from Rita... Well, since Miller Reporting Group, slash, the ol' homestead is 20 or so miles up I-45 from Galveston, we've officially abandoned ship. We crashed with friends in Austin last night and are currently on our way to Abilene and Midland to give the grandparents some grandkid time while we wait to see if we still have a home, friends, a business, clients or a life. We made