Tuesday, March 27, 2007

SOS: Gmail Down, Repeat Gmail Down

Gmail has been down for the better part of this afternoon. It's sad that I'm like having a coronary about it right now. The message from the Gmail folks is

“Server Error: We’re sorry, but Gmail is temporarily unavailable. We’re
currently working to fix the problem — please try logging in to your account in
a few minutes.”
It's been a few minutes and then some.

Not like anything that earth-shattering could have happened in the past two hours.

But it is fun to think about Gmail engineers scurrying about their server farms. The way I picture it, smoke must be coming out of their computers, or maybe they forgot to feed the mice who run in their wheels.

5 comments:

Drew said...

Who imagines a website of Google being down? Thank god I didn't need anything but a friend had a "Google document" that he needed to get to. He had smoke coming out of his ears, let me tell you!

teahouse said...

Hmm..maybe you could take drastic measures..like writing someone a letter on stationery?

;o)

kevin said...

Dont you just hate it when that happens. Hopefully it has sorted itself out by now!

Kev in NZ

Ming the Merciless said...

LOL! It can be annoying especially when you are expecting an important e-mail.

I find myself checking my e-mail every 10 minutes. I even have Yahoo messenger on all day so it can notify me if I have a new e-mail.

Todd HellsKitchen said...

Mine works. Maybe Hell's Kitchen is a different server...