Spacecraft Cassini flies regularly around Saturn and its moons and makes a huge amount of photos. If you add those together you get an almost surreal HD movie.

As far as I know the Japanse city of Kobe recovered from the huge 1995 eartquake much faster than New Orleans from Katrina. Which says something about american government.
NEVER stop searching, don't give up: Elderly woman and grandson rescued 9 days after the initial earthquake and tsunami on March 11th.

Militairy action in Libya is not about protecting people from their "tirant". That tirant friend is someone the west did business and investment with happily a couple of weeks ago. It's about oil control where anarchy emerges. Why did the coalition wait just a little while? So the rebels would be weakened (who needs armed civilains with tanks in the streets?) and Khadaffi to go a bit too far so there would be a noble excuse for action.

An icon left us: Jet Harris, The Shadows bassist, dies aged 71
Classic: The Shadows - Apache

Ordered a Sterling JP100 guitar in UK. (Not available at EU mainland yet). Can't wait!

I've been told now you can not only "deactivate" your Facebook account, but actually delete it. Makes lots of "friends" delete and sigh with relief. Back to life and putting surprise back in real life meetings and conversations. All the things you hadn't heard yet!!!

Amsterdam: sunny but fresh 8.00° Celsius = 46.4° Fahrenheit

Listening to: Dream Theater - Live at Budokan

Oxley, I sat out on my deck with a glass of wine Friday night and watched the moon for over an hour. It was amazing to watch the way the colors of the moon changed as the clouds rolled past it. The different color clouds were really cool to watch. At one point, the moon disappeared behind this little ominous black cloud and was completely gone. My mouth literally dropped open because it completely snuffed out all the light of the moon - and it was a black cloud! I was like wtf! I don't think I've ever seen a cloud so black that you could barely even see it in the patch of gray clouds. The wind in the sky was blowing the clouds by at a good clip, but it wasn't windy at all on the ground. It was so amazing and clear when the clouds would leave big open spaces for the moon to shine through. Sitting under a full moon like that always fills me with gratitude and I thankfulness. Watching the moon and sun set are two of the best things in life.

Feel better now?

Yep, just one.

Hi Joe,

I am 15 and I am from the Czech republic.

Yesterday I joined your fan club , because I would like to be your pen - friend and get some new information about you and guitar . You are really my favourite guitarist , I love listening to your music - it is simply perfect ! I can listen to it any time .

I started playing the guitar when I was 13 and since then I have known it is my future ! I play it every day - I think it is very important , because I want to be better and better ! I would like to go a similar way like you - to write songs and play the guitar whole my life !

Now I am studying your book " Guitar secrets " - it is really useful and I like your style.

I was lucky last year - I could watch your concert in Prague on the 3rd of November 2010 , the concert was fantastic !!! I admire your self- confidence and ease while playing. I noticed you were using Marshall sound amplifier instead of Peavey . How is it possible ?

And finally , I have some questions :

- When you were in Prague , did you like the city and what ? - Do you have any advice for my future ? What to aim or what to avoid ? - What is your favourite music and interprets ? - What do you usually do before your performance ?

Thanks a lot and Have a nice day !!!

Hello Jeff

Silly Putty

Dug out the Stanley Clarke cd from the bottom of the pile in my car. Blasted this cd and smiled from ear to ear the entire time. Sun shining, windows down - so much funkin' fun!

*wine not included*

Al's new girlfriend

Whoa!.

puberty sets in??

world peace??

Jagermeister comes in IV form??

those pesky leprechauns give back that pot o' gold??

Obama gets re-elected??

we all get that job we really love??

scientists prove the moon IS really made of cheese??

Joe does a bluegrass album??

we're all born with 6 fingers & toes??

the Hoff is on Celebrity Rehab??

Hey Joe,

I've noticed (by happily seeing you live multiple times) that even with your high gain sound, you have a remarkably quiet setup (at least it seemed to me from the crowd). I've been playing guitar for about 9 years and still have problems with tons of buzzing when using distortion. I was wondering if you have any thoughts on how to get rid of that sort of noise?

I saw your rig run-down video, and noticed you use a power conditioner for your amp heads (which I assume must reduce noise from the amps), and your new Marshall heads have noise gates on them. What did you do before using noise gates? I've heard they're not great for tone... Through research, I read other things that help, such as shielding the pickups/wiring in the guitar properly, using short lengths of high-quality cable, etc.

G'day my fellow satch friends, been awhile .. I love your new album joe but would love to see you do something like flying in a blue dream again.. any thoughts?

also Its been over 3 years since I've last recorded a song and have now done again, new song called "back end blues" have a listen joe and friends, just got an m-audio unit and pro tools se so still learning how use it...

feel free to coment and listen ... im not anything like Joe but I do love to play go to my music page and listen ..

HAPPY BIRTHDAY T SAFLEY!

slanshroom: I hear ya on the truth bro, it sure is unnerving to hear it, and today workers had to evac the site as smoke started billowing from one of the reactor housings..it's going to take a lot of time to get the cooling pumps running safely, and pray that the #3 mox reactor doesn't blow..that would be a catastrophe I don't want to see.... Thanks for the good vibes, we need all we can get!

Thanks for the good vibes Pip55. And thanks for posting those stories on Paul & Nuno! Would love to drink some Keshasha with Nuno & the band someday :-)

Happy Birthday Tracey....

Keshasha for G3!

Joe.... Is G3 going to materialize itself in the future again??