You're kidding me? Who posted this pic?

With all of the criticism President Obama is receiving about being a socialist, who in the White House would post this pic on www.WhiteHouse.gov? I am not going to say what it reminds me of, but isn't it obvious? This is a teachable moment for the Web administrator.

Obama's been briefed

Dr. Mo Saif discusses swine flu

Specter Spectacle

30-country, non-apology tour

I am always amazed and humbled when I check Google Analytics to see how many people visited the site, from where they came, how long they stayed on the site, how many pages they viewed and what pages they viewed.

I grew up in a single-family household in Revere, Mass. I have been in and around journalism since 1988, though most of my time has been with smaller newspapers. So, it is amazing to see the reach of this blog.

So far, people in 30 countries (and I am not apologizing for that) have stopped by The Warren Report. Here are the countries: United States, United Kingdom, Canada, India, Indonesia, Hungary, Italy, France, Poland, South Korea, Germany, The Netherlands, Malta, Switzerland, Japan, Brazil, Colombia, Austria, Czech Republic, New Zealand, Georgia, Lithuania, Malaysia, Australia, Mexico, Honk Kong, China, Macedonia and Bulgaria.

One-fourth of a penny saved is a penny earned

When President Barack Obama instructed his Cabinet to cut $100 million, what did you think about it? The creator of the above video tries to visually show us how much the $100 million is in relation to what we are spending.

Prompting the prompter

Oh, oh. TelePrompter is going to hear about it after it jumped the gun and left President Barack Obama hanging for the next line.

For those who said G.W. was an idiot and suggested English was his second language, what are your thoughts about BHO?

Go, Trek yourself

Saw this on Lifehacker. Just tried it yet, and it is pretty cool. Seems like something my wife would enjoy.

Update: Scratch Lifehacker. Saw it on Gizmodo.

Abandoning free market principles

There's some troubling news emerging about former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke about the roles the played in Bank of America's purchase of Merrill Lynch. The Wall Street Journal writes about an offer BoA CEO Ken Lewis could not refuse.

The WSJ piece (in its entirety here) states:

In the name of containing "systemic risk," our regulators spread it. In order to keep Mr. Lewis quiet, they all but ordered him to deceive his own shareholders. And in the name of restoring financial confidence, they have so mistreated Bank of America that bank executives everywhere have concluded that neither Treasury nor the Federal Reserve can be trusted.

President Bush said he abandoned free market principles to save the free market. Talk about a toxic asset.

I encourage you to read the WSJ piece.

Operational pause ...

This blog has been quiet the past few days, and for good reason: Wendi and I were on our bikes Friday, Saturday and Sunday (and I shot video a baseball game Saturday for friends).

It felt great to get out and ride, the first time we did so this year. We rode 3 miles through Secrest Arboretum on Friday night, 11.5 miles on the Holmes County Trail between Millersburg and Killbuck on Saturday (where we ran into a modern-day wagon train) and 5.8 miles on Sunday when we rode to Parkview Church of Christ for our Dave Ramsey's Financial Peace University Class we lead.

Here is the wagon train video (shot on a cell phone):



Here is Ryan playing baseball (shot on Sony HandyCam HD):