In Gmail We Trust
For those of you who were stuck with nothing to do because you couldn’t access Gmail this afternoon, I thought I would provide some suggestions. Full disclosure: the following list is heavily indebted to this TechCrunch article.
1. Google “Gmail down today” and read about it
2. Write your own blog post about Gmail being down
3. Tweet about Gmail being down
4. Talk about Gmail being down over IM (Gchat isn’t down)
5. Skip a conference call because you don’t have access to the call-in number (thanks, Technologizer)
6. Set up a traditional mail client to pull your Gmail
7. Check your Gmail on your iPhone (?)
8. Create a Google Doc (Google Docs is not down)
9. Update the wiki
10. Change your avatar
11. Read the first half-sentence of your emails in Google Notifier
And… we’re back up. In Gmail we trust.
“The entire Google cloud is gonna go down someday, and we’ll all be, like, naked feeling.” - Josh
