Sorry for the mess at present. The process of rolling out our spiffy new Web design has unwittingly kicked our blog infrastructure into a cocked hat. Hence, all the pretty pictures are missing from S&G (only temporarily, I hope). David Matthews has the worst of it, over at Gambling in Space, where his carefully crafted charts comparing Vegas' poker rooms have collapsed into inscrutable piles of verbiage. Hopefully, we'll have things back to normal in the very near future. (At least you can still enjoy Frugal Vegas and House Advantage without having to step around the cyber-equivalent of fallen plaster and ripped-out drywall.)

Meanwhile, with so much going on in the news world, I feel like I haven't been fulfilling my duties to the readers. With any luck I'll be able to get around to a host of interesting news items from Macao (too many to itemize), to say nothing of Sheldon Adelson's recent rampage against MGM Mirage, Atlantic City, J. Terrence Lanni, the Ho family and anything else that wandered into his path. If Gary Loveman ever succeeds in building a Macao casino, I guess Sheldon will rip him a new one, too.

Speaking of Harrah's, it's a scary day (for me, anyway) when I open up a Las Vegas Review-Journal editorial and find myself in agreement with every single word. But such is the case with their eloquent takedown of do/see/speak-no-evil act going on at the Nevada State Contractors Board. It looks as though the primer coat is being laid down for a whitewash of Harrah's fast-and-loose remodeling work. But the R-J says it far better than I could.

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