Blake Helms | Birmingham, Alabama

Eight years ago today ter­ror­ist hijacked com­mer­cial air­lin­ers and crashed them into the World Trade Cen­terand the Pen­ta­gon while another was poised for Wash­ing­ton. Sep­tem­ber 11, 2001 sud­denly became a date embla­zoned in the minds of Amer­i­cans. A hor­rific event that we watched unfold before the cam­eras of the 24 hour news cycle. I was in High School then. […]

On Fri­day reports began sur­fac­ing around the Inter­net that a new worm was attack­ing a large num­ber of Word­Press instal­la­tions. It was soon dis­cov­ered that the prob­lem is a cross-script attack­ing vul­ner­a­bil­ity that was patched in ver­sion 2.8.3. Any site run­ning an ear­lier ver­sion can be attacked. Sev­eral high pro­files sites have been affected including […]

For many years I’ve looked at the Wor­press plat­form. I’ve played with it some and even went to a Word­camp! For many years my site has been run­ning on the Dot­Net­Nuke plat­form. I first started using it with ver­sion 2 and main­tained my site up through ver­sion 5. It’s main appeal was it was writ­ten in .NET, It […]

This week Apple intro­duced the third gen­er­a­tion iPod Shuf­fle. The low-end iPod has been a favorite among jog­gers and gym-goers who want a small light­weight device and those who don’t want to spend a lot of money on a full sized Mp3 player. The size and low cost do not come with­out giv­ing up some fea­tures that are staples […]