gMail Outage Widespread

There is an apparently widespread outage for gMail customers going on at the moment. It seems, from my perspective, to be cascading and growing larger.

Some people in Silicon Valley report their Google Mail down since last night. Mine worked fine until about 30 minutes ago when it started getting flaky. Now it's not working at all.

One of the risks of living in an interconnected world. I always find myself amused by people (sometimes, though decreasingly frequently myself) who start screaming at Google and throwing around words like "unacceptable" and "stupid" and "lame-ass". I wonder how many of them have servers with 100% uptime.

Email is as important to me as to almost anyone, I suspect, but nobody is dying here. They'll get it fixed. Relax.