Blake Helms | Birmingham, Alabama

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 […]

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 […]