{"id":122,"date":"2005-02-27T12:21:28","date_gmt":"2005-02-27T12:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/?p=122"},"modified":"2005-02-27T12:21:28","modified_gmt":"2005-02-27T12:21:28","slug":"down-with-gmail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/archives\/122","title":{"rendered":"down with gmail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Simply unacceptible.  That&#8217;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&#8217;s Sunday, and it&#8217;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&#8217;t access my email?  Is there tech support for me to contact?  Could I have been warned?  Can the error messages tell me something?  <i>Anything?<\/i> <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be really honest.  I love Gmail when it&#8217;s working.  It is by far the best email client\/host combination I have ever used.  My only problem is that it often doesn&#8217;t work.  Most of the time it&#8217;s very temporary, but sometimes (like today) it is not.  I realize that the system is still in Beta (being tested), so I shouldn&#8217;t expect perfection&#8230;but I should be able to check my email <i>always<\/i>. <\/p>\n<p>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&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simply unacceptible. That&#8217;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. 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