http://www.the-joe-show.com Observations from the world that I live in Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:30:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So I reported a couple of days ago that President elect Obama's team had seeming removed the Agenda from their website - http://www.change.gov.  Since then, quite a few major news organizations have also noticed the content missing from the site and have reported as much.  A official response from the Obama ... http://www.the-joe-show.com/2008/11/11/barack-obamas-changed-agenda-part-two/ I have been thinking lot about Tuesday's historic election, mostly in terms of how open and transparent the White House will -hopefully - become.  I have been using the new site Change.gov as an example of the openess that is to come.  (Change.gov is a site that was put up ... http://www.the-joe-show.com/2008/11/09/obamas-agenda-change-d/ Universal Camping Originally uploaded by Fort Photo The Mercury News is reporting that the Girl Scouts and Brownies from Santa Clara County will be camping out on Saturday, October 25th. What's odd about that? Nothing really, it's what Girl Scouts do. Only these are Girl Scouts from Santa Clara ... http://www.the-joe-show.com/2008/10/17/urban-camping/ I just downloaded the new Google Chrome browser.  As with most things Google, the most apparent thing right of the box is the naked-ness of the application itself.  Playing around with it for 5 minutes, I like the look and feel.  I quickly reviewed the feature set, and some of ... http://www.the-joe-show.com/2008/09/02/kicking-the-chrome-bumper/ I'll post a full review shortly, but here's my GPS data from Motionbased.com and my Garmin 305 GPS watch http://www.the-joe-show.com/2008/08/18/first-ride-on-my-new-giant-anthem-x2/ Discus Thrower Originally uploaded by technicolor I have been pondering this for a few days now, and thought that this would make a good blog post. You see, now that I am running, everyone is calling me a 'runner', problem is I just don't think of myself as a runner. ... http://www.the-joe-show.com/2008/08/13/what-is-in-a-name/ Just a test, please ignore http://www.the-joe-show.com/2008/08/04/test-post-from-iphone-app/ My biggest fan Originally uploaded by mtnbkr1 So - I ran my first half marathon today. Whop-de-freakin-do. HELL YEAH Woop-de-freakin-do! I surprised even myself on this run. After getting up at o-dark-thirty to go run 13.1 (actually 13.27 according to my Garmin) with oh, about 10,000 of my closest friends, we started out ... http://www.the-joe-show.com/2008/08/03/my-first-half-marathon-check/ Foggy morning run to Golden Gate Bridge Originally uploaded by digiTofu So I am writing this on my way to SF to pick up my race pack for tomorrow's half marathon. I chose this image as it sort of represents alot of things that I am feeling right now about race. ... http://www.the-joe-show.com/2008/08/02/san-francisco-marathon-the-day-before/ in the long run... Originally uploaded by kreativekell I have abandoned this blog long enough. For the one reader that is still following along, thank you for your patience. I turned 39 over the weekend, and I figured it was as good as time as any to resurrect this blog. I ... http://www.the-joe-show.com/2008/07/28/in-the-long-run/