Blake Helms | Birmingham, Alabama

This has both­ered me for a long time and I finally decided to blog about it. I run mul­ti­ple sites with dozens of plu­g­ins so it seems I am installing plu­gin updates. The first thing I do before I install an update is ver­ify that my hourly data­base backup ran then click on the plu­gin “ver­sion details.” […]

Yes­ter­day I had to stop by Home Depot to pick up a part for my refrig­er­a­tor. I bought one item and received nearly 36 inches of receipt!  A large por­tion was the logo, the phone num­ber and address fol­lowed by a  line of aster­isks, the actual trans­ac­tion and a huge sec­tion ded­i­cated to a sur­vey. Why do I […]

Ear­lier today gad­get blog Giz­modo posted a story link­ing to a site pur­port­ing to be a Google Chrome OS down­load site. Thirty sec­onds of look­ing around you could tell some­thing wasn’t right. The site was a hosted site on “Google Sites” not a Google prod­uct site (ex. google.com/chromeos), sec­ond and most damming was the line of text […]

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 […]