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paraka ([personal profile] paraka) wrote2009-02-24 06:14 am
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Dear Gmail,

I love you and you're my favouritest email but if you don't start working soon I'm going to lose it. I am an email junkie. I have to check my email at least 50 times a day, and when I first wake up in the morning is probably the most important time. I also don't appreciate that my Gmail notifier add-on is still able to access you while I am not. Telling me that I have a new email but not letting me see it just increases the anger.

No love,
Lindsay
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[identity profile] madeira.livejournal.com 2009-02-24 02:57 pm (UTC)(link)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7907583.stm

I never thought I'd see the day Google would fail, but apparently, they can and they do :P.
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[personal profile] paraka 2009-02-24 05:24 pm (UTC)(link)
I never thought I'd see the day Google would fail, but apparently, they can and they do :P.
They apparently had a similar outage back in August 2008, although I didn't experience it back then (I only discovered it as I frantically Googled this morning trying to find out what was wrong).

Still, gmail has been good to me and I actually slept through most of the outage, so if all they've done is left me emailess for 45 minutes, I can forgive them.

[identity profile] nebulein.livejournal.com 2009-02-24 03:05 pm (UTC)(link)
It's working for me right now, but I had gmail fail on me in the past and it drove me nearly nuts. Especially since that's the only place I keep my emails these days. So, yeah, I totally feel with ya. *hugs*
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[personal profile] paraka 2009-02-24 05:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I managed to get it working again before I left for work. It was funny actually, because I got in my car and the first thing they say on the radio is "Gmail is down!"

And yeah, Gmail is the only place I keep my emails too, but luckily it was a short outage.

[identity profile] nebulein.livejournal.com 2009-02-26 04:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Ahah, they broadcasted it on the radio?! Amazing.
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[personal profile] paraka 2009-02-26 05:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, the radio station I listen to does a 10 minute "tech bytes" session every weekday at 7:10 which was the time I was leaving. So it was their top tech story, but it's not like it made the news or anything :P

[identity profile] nebulein.livejournal.com 2009-02-27 09:07 pm (UTC)(link)
ahaha, okay then, that explains it. :)

[identity profile] maekala.livejournal.com 2009-02-24 04:27 pm (UTC)(link)
I've noticed quite a few people are having trouble with gmail right now. I hope you get it resolved. *huggles*
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[personal profile] paraka 2009-02-24 05:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, it wasn't just me, Gmail went down. Still it's back up now, and this appears to be only the second time it's happened, and the first time I've noticed, so I'm not going to let it bother me.

[identity profile] edgyauthor.livejournal.com 2009-02-24 04:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Gmail has always acted wonky for me. Sometimes, like you, I can't access it, but usually it drives me crazy by randomly deciding not to send certain emails. *glares at gmail*
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[personal profile] paraka 2009-02-24 05:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Really? I've always been super happy with Gmail, this is the first time I've ever had a problem with it. Still, it's fixed now, so I'm happy :)
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[personal profile] aurora 2009-02-24 05:39 pm (UTC)(link)
It was seriously so annoying!
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