Back in business today, fresh from our adventure to Dallas to talk new technology with newspaper vendors from around the world. And we're just in time for the latest new technology for you. Tomorrow Sony cracks open the boxes of the new PlayStation Portable game machines, at $250 a pop, with games going for $50 each. Sony expects to sell 1 million of them within days. Business writers Jim McLain (jmclain@VenturaCountyStar.com) and Allison Bruce (abruce@VenturaCountyStar.com) are putting together a package on the latest game device. We're talking right now about whether the story will run on business, with a lead-in from Page One, or all in Business or all in the front news section.

Also tomorrow we're planning a story with photos from Matilija Canyon Road, the wettest spot in Ventura County. They've had more than 70 inches of rain there, twice what us flatlanders have slogged through. We have a reporter and photographer on their up to the canyon this morning (looks like they're going to have to hike in because the road is washed out). The plan is to run it tomorrow (when more rain is due) if they make it back in time.

We also will stay up with the latest on the Terri Schiavo case. Staff writer Stephanie Hoops (shoops@VenturaCountyStar.com) will have a sidebar to the main wire story looking at the huge increase in interest in end-of-life documents as a result of the attention this case has drawn.

The other wire story of interest at our morning meeting was the summit in Texas today with the presidents of Mexico, Canada and the United States.