Blake Helms | Birmingham, Alabama

I love my iPhone! That’s actu­ally prob­a­bly an under­state­ment. Life before my iPhone is a blur. My day revolves around the infor­ma­tion stored on my iPhone. The iPhone is leaps and bounds above the com­pe­ti­tion and this is begin­ning to prove to be a prob­lem. The recent deba­cle with the Google Voice app is proof of this. Apple […]

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 […]

In the embed­ded CNN story we find another per­son mis­us­ing the 911 sys­tem to solve a seem­ingly insignif­i­cant prob­lem. Our first reac­tion is to prob­a­bly laugh or think what is wrong with this per­son but I think it’s the sign of a larger prob­lem. Embed­ded video from CNN Video We need a stan­dard­ized nation­wide non–emergency […]

Con­tin­u­ing my impromptu series on atomic releated arti­cles, 93 year old Tsu­tomu Yam­aguchi has become the first per­son cer­ti­fied to have sur­vived both atomic bomb­ings on Japan. Yam­aguchi was in Hiroshima on a busi­ness trip on Aug. 6, 1945, when a U.S. B-29 dropped an atomic bomb on the city. He suf­fered seri­ous burns to […]