Blake Helms | Birmingham, Alabama

Medi­ate has a slideshow of screen-grabs of var­i­ous sites dur­ing the attacks of 9/11. The Inter­net news cycle was much dif­fer­ent back then and these screen-grabs show the tremen­dous amount of strain placed on the web servers as peo­ple tried to fol­low the events. 9/11 Screen­grabs | | Mediaite.

Over the years I’ve changed logos about once a year. I like to match my every chang­ing style and my blog/logo is a reflec­tion of my cur­rent style. Below is a brief his­tory of my logos. When I first relaunched my site ear­lier this year on Word­Press I designed the “Ink Stain” logo. While I […]

The future has arrived! Lon­dons Heathrow air­port is ready to open their new dri­ver­less taxi sys­tem to ferry trav­el­ers around the ter­mi­nal. For years we have been promised a sys­tem like this but the year 2000 came and went with nary a fly­ing or dri­ver­less car in sight. I really hope to see this state­side very soon! From […]

I am in the process of point­ing my Feed­burner feed at my new blog and fully shut­ting down the old site. I apol­o­gize if old feed items become dupli­cated. I will be mak­ing more changes over the next cou­ple of days and will also be writ­ing a series of posts on why I am leav­ing Dot­Net­Nuke for the […]

So after lit­er­ally years of threats I have finally moved my blog to Word­Press. I have spent a great deal of time research­ing all the blog plat­form options and this appears to best suit my needs. So today I am start­ing my “soft launch” so that you can test it out and give me feedback. […]