Simply unacceptible. That’s just about all I have to say about that. Let me explain. Gmail has been down all morning. ALL MORNING. I use Gmail to access just about all of my email, and so I have had no access to my email all morning. Now, I realize that it’s Sunday, and it’s still early in the morning in California (where Google is based), but still. Are there not backups in place? Was this an expected failure period? Is there somewhere I can go to figure out why I can’t access my email? Is there tech support for me to contact? Could I have been warned? Can the error messages tell me something? Anything?

I’ll be really honest. I love Gmail when it’s working. It is by far the best email client/host combination I have ever used. My only problem is that it often doesn’t work. Most of the time it’s very temporary, but sometimes (like today) it is not. I realize that the system is still in Beta (being tested), so I shouldn’t expect perfection…but I should be able to check my email always.

The kicker to this whole shebang: the only reason I want to use Gmail this morning is so that I can send in an application to work at Google…