Blake Helms | Birmingham, Alabama

A few months ago I wrote an arti­cle on the Gilbert Atomic Energy Lab and now you can buy one for your very own! Sell­ing at the time of this writ­ing for just over $1700, this 1949 “toy” cost today’s equiv­a­lent of $400 and includes “a U-239 Geiger counter, Elec­tro­scope, Spinthariscope, Wil­son Cloud Cham­ber, nuclear spheres model, a book on prospecting […]

An ancient IBM AS/400 was cru­cial to US invest­ment swindler Bernard Madoff’s cun­ning Ponzi scam whereby he made off with huge wodges of other people’s cash. Accord­ing to a new book, “Too Good to Be True: The Rise and Fall of Bernie Mad­off”, author Erin Arved­lund claims that Mad­off could not have man­aged his elaborate […]

Dear Sir/Madam: I am writ­ing to apol­o­gize for caus­ing dam­age to your prop­erty on “Tues­day,” when the news­pa­pers I was attempt­ing to deliver acci­den­tally broke two of your win­dows, over­turned your garbage cans, and, most despi­ca­bly, unearthed a grave­stone in your front lawn. The extremely haz­ardous and fast-paced side­walk of the street you live on […]

This morn­ing myfoxal.com’s blog is report­ing that Larry Lang­ford has had an attor­ney named to defend him against cor­rup­tion charges because he is unable to afford rep­re­sen­ta­tion. The court order, handed down by fed­eral mag­is­trate Paul Greene was handed down last week. feedproxy.google.com

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 […]

On August 5, my home phone and Inter­net died and as of today it is still out. I have been hav­ing prob­lems for nearly two months where every time it rained the Inter­net would go out. After a month long wait a tele­phone repair tech­ni­cian called and said it was “fixed.” This was the day before […]

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. […]

Forty years ago this Mon­day, Neil Arm­strong and Buzz Aldrin took the first steps on the moon. Dur­ing all the cel­e­bra­tion around this his­toric event a key mem­ber of that crew is often for­got­ten, Major Gen­eral Michael Collins. Collins decided to join NASA after John Glenn’s his­toric flight. The thought of cir­cling high above the earth drove him […]

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 […]