All eyes are on Houston as the Enron trial begins. Ken Lay has been busy, with a website that lists his awards and achievements and introduces us to his legal team, And for those of us who care, he even provides his views about the trial. The sad truth is that it's all about deflecting blame.

Meanwhile, ABC13 Eyewitness News legal analyst Joel Androphy has a blog on the trial and Joe Nocera from the New York Times sums things up in a radio interview with NPR.

With expectations that it will be a long and complicated affair (with some tipping it could run for at least five months), there's no shortage of people lining up to make a fast buck out of the trial. There are now guided tours of the guided tours of Houston, including the homes and favourite haunts of Lay and Skilling and InBoxer of Concord, Mass. is trying to drum up business by indexing all of the corporate e-mails acquired by the government in the upcoming Enron case and placing them online.