Gmail is dead to me (and you and a dog named Boo) ... today anyway

This image appears in the Google Chrome browser when you try to load a Web page and something goes wrong. It has nothing to do with today's Gmail outage, but it did come up when I (appropriately) Googled "sad Google," so I present it to you in this entry ...

In case you hadn't noticed (and if so, I don't know how you managed it), Gmail is dead today.

More than a few people I work with have their various e-mail accounts feeding into Gmail, where they usually read their collected messages in Google's Gmail-reffic skin from wherever they happen to be.

Just not today.

According to the post above from Cnet's DeepTech blog, other Google services, including search, Google Docs, Sites, Calendar and a host of other Googly bits are functioning as normal (i.e. they're working).

This is one of those things that doesn't look good for those advocating the adoption of Google's Gmail and other services under the Google Apps umbrella in the enterprise, including the City of Los Angeles.

We'll see how Google pulls out of this, and how it affects the uptime stats for the Gmail service. And it'd be nice to find out exactly what happened.

One thing's true: It's a pain in the ass to lose access to your e-mail in the middle of the day.

It makes me feel pretty good at this particular moment about POP-ing my mail into Mozilla's Thunderbird ... and keeping my Yahoo Mail account going.