How am I supposed to twit about the maintenance on Twitter if Twitter is down?

We will have 90 mins of maintenance starting at 9:45p Pacific today, June 15.

Also, I'm still not throughly convinced that the proper speek is not Twat instead of Twit.  And lastly, I'm working on a through Twatting how-to article to get the most out of your blog posts and help reach the Twitter target audience.  It's gonna be easy and utilize just a couple of Word Press Plugins.  BRB

FireFox allows you to do it, Internet Explorer allows you to do it, but guess what?  There is no function within Google Chrome to give permission to a website to automatically allow popups.  This means, that every time you try to open an external PDF, login screen, or game on some websites you are forced to click the allow button everytime.

This would seem like a no brainer to fix, almost immediately after launch.  But here we are, months after Chrome's initial release and there has yet to be a patch for this.  Furthermore, I'm still waiting on Chrom Add-Ons that helped drive FireFox's p0ularity.  Unfortunately the lack of addons and now the lack of ability to allow popups based on domain have sealed the deal for me.  It will be awhile before I start my Chrome browser up again anytime soon.

Also, if you feel like giving Google an ear full, drop a line over at their complaint department.  There are plenty of other people pissed off that there is no way to allow popups in Google Chrome.

*Update - Google Now Allows Popup Authorization to Websites, How To Allow Popups In Chrome

I've used the online alias nails in some manner since the first time I laid hands on a keyboard.  'Nails' made reference to my favorite band, Nine Inch Nails.  Literally, I've been a fan since the early 90's and was won over by Pretty Hate Machine and later truly devoted to the NIN following with Downward Spiral. Hence, my love affair with the nails name and now my persona 'cldnails' continues on.

This week maybe more than ever I'm proud to bear the nails moniker.

On Monday Nine Inch Nails released their 2nd album in the past 3 months, The Slip.  Trent Reznor has managed to completely shake up the record industry with his previous release of Ghosts, which he marketed versions of as cheap as $5.  Because of Ghosts success and Reznor's love of his fans, he released The Slip completely free and bearing a Creative Commons License.  Free of a record label he's been able to connect with fans at a closer level than any other artist in recent history.

No DRM, high quality downloads, options for quality of download, and extras like art was included in NIN's past 2 releases online.  Everywhere you look people who were not even formally NIN fans are starting realize the value of such an endeavor and supporting the cause.

For those interested in downloading and supporting Nine Inch Nails, head over to NIN.com to get your utterly free, DRM Free, and high quality copy of The Slip.

NINE INCH NAILS And All That Could Have 2CD Ltd Box    US $29.99

Venice 13 Spiked Industrial Rock CD Nine Inch Nails    US $1.50

Further Down the Spiral Nine Inch Nails Good EP Extr    US $1.00

The Perfect Drug Single] Nine Inch Nails CD    US $7.98

Nine Inch Nails RARE CD Still    US $20.00

Ok, so I'm tired of my comments being buried in liberal shit at places like Digg, Reddit, and pretty much any other social networking site on the web. Are you kidding me, just because there are more libs on sites like these doesn't mean what I have to say needs to be shit canned. (In some cases completely deleted at Reddit) So is the birth of my latest creation...

I've started FecalAgitator.com for my comments to have a place to set, to be viewed, to be discussed on sites that have an agenda other than mine. It's a place for like minded individuals to help turn the tides, raise diggs, points, or whatever so that our views will not be lost in the noise. It's my soap box if you will and I'll be screaming as loudly as possible and try to remain coherent.

Thanks for stopping by and be sure to add your own comments, with a link so that I can help digg or +point for you too.

FecalAgitator.com - think about it.

I'm impressed, a movie that has allowed nerds to fall over each other for clues and spoilers has remained a secret all the way up to a week before opening night. Of course tonight the movie Cloverfield will be opening nationwide, but until prescreenings started a week ago no 'real' movie clues had been found. Instead, the marketing department of J.J. Abrams decided that an ARG (alternative reality game) would provide sufficient buzz and it looks like it worked.

For those of you not familiar with ARG's, it's a fairly new style of marketing that companies are now trying out to establish a 'buzz' about their product. Nine Inch Nails did it for their latest album Year Zero, Halo 2 did it with their 'I love bees' campaign, and now Cloverfield has marked itself in the ARG playbook as well. While I didn't contribute to any of these games, I did enjoy following all the nifty clues, details, and speculation that follows such an event. Unforums provided the background for the Cloverfield ARG and many others for those that are interested.

Probably what I enjoyed most about this little social experiment was the fact that spoilers were hunted and I have no self control when it comes to them. Myself and others were tired of speculating since July over what the monster looked like and a week ago we were given our first picture of it and even YouTube videos of the nasties that will be in the movie. But I am truly impressed that with so many technonerds looking for clues that we didn't have something sooner, Cloverfield had hid himself very well. Congratulations to the J.J. and everyone involved with keeping it a secret for so long.

I'm looking forward to checking the movie out tomorrow night with my wife. I'm taking my Dramamine, drinking some 7-up, and hopefully be entertained for a little longer than the standard 90min porno.

People are asshats. As I type this simple and to the point message I can't help but wonder, is asshat one word or two? Also, do the asshats of the net know that they are asshats? Are they aware that the weight of their impact online could be measured on gnat balls?

Too many questions, not enough frequent postings, I'm sorry. The reason for this post was to let loose a little tension I've been under recently over comments made back and forth on social networking sites like Reddit and Digg. There are simply too many idiots with an internet connection that think everything is a conspiracy, the government hates them, the US is the devil, and Hillary Clinton is gonna fix it all.

As I type this I feel another patch of hair coming loose.

I'll hopefully get back to my normal posts soon, after all it's a new year and time for a new me. Later.

The Google brothers made it to the Forbes 400 richest people in America for the first time this year. Sergey Brin and Larry Page soaked up the #43 spot with only $4 billion dollars each. Sergey and Larry are the youngest on the list of elites at the tender age of 31.

I think I'm in the wrong line of business...or am I?

Oddly enough my regular forum surfing led me to the new Google Hot Trends. Today, it would seem the subject is how Kangaroo's keep cool. So, how does a kangaroo keep cool? For most questions like this I turn to Wikipedia, since I'm not a marsupial, and I don't live in a Kangaroo infested location, I need to rely on outside information.

According to our friends over at Wikipedia, a Kangaroo's efficiency in a very hot and dry climate is directly related to their hopping. For every time they hop, their lungs are expelled of air and when the recoil, for landing, they are filled back up. This leads to more efficient use of their bodily fluids, less energy is expelled, and the kangaroo will keep cooler because of this.

Is this the definitive answer for 'how does a kangaroo keep cool'? Probably not. Will it result in higher hits to my blog today, according to Google Trends? It'll depend if people are searching for Kangaroo answers through the blog search. Most of my visitors should be searching for Kangaroo in Tampa and Orlando, Florida, however a few visitors will undoubtedly show up from Atlanta, GA.

I hate the interwebs, just as much as I love it/need it. The problem I face on a day to day basis is my inability to stay focused, RSS feeds be damned. I hate tangents yet I'm constantly riding the virtual surf.

My latest list of distractions:

• World of Warcraft Damn you Blizzard!!!!11111
• 4x4 Flash
• WoW Wiki
• WoW Head Apparently this site is in the top 1000 in the world, the real world.

The above sites are only supplemental to the usual suspects. Digg, Digital Point, Reddit, you know who you are. I'm gonna learn to sue aforementioned sites like fat kids sue McDonalds.

Zune, Microsofts answer to the iPod has received a very unwelcome response over this past week. Although costing the same, $250, the Zune offers but one feature the iPod does not, Squirting. lol, what an mmmtarded name.

After perusing through some mp3 player reviews and professional opinion columns I started paying closer attention to the user commented sections. The actual users had a lot more to say than the regurgitating opinion columnists.

So why is it when there's a pro-Apple product review the reviewer is somehow biased? Five reasons why the iPod is better than the Zune:

1. The iPod's been around long enough to work out some of the initial kinks in the earlier iPods. Zune is first generation and will improve.

2. The scrolling wheel. Why try to "copy" it when you can't? Zune designers should have considered a creative alternative.

3. Podcasts. I listen to more podcasts than music. Apple's always enriching the pot of downloadables: music, video, podcasts, and now games. Zune doesn't support podcasts.

4. Squirting? Zune's big feature? I'm just waiting to see if the Zune becomes as big a virus target as every other Microsoft product. If so, they've built in the mechanism for disaster in the very first model. How long before people are (unknowingly) "squirting" Zune viruses at each other?

5. A song on iTunes is 99 cents. There's no "Apple Bucks" or "iTunes Points." No initial sum required. iTunes works on Macs and PCs. It's simple and easy. Yet someone at Microsoft looked at that and said, "no... I've got a better idea." Microsoft abhors simple logic. They built their music empire upon the name Zune...but take a look at zune.com. Did no one think to buy this domain?

Thank you so much Molly_Maine who commented on SFGate.com. That comment and many more like it can be found as you scroll down, which to me holds more weight than what the paid writers have to say.