You’ve seen it here before, and it has come around for another pass. My gmail is down with a “Temporary Error 502. I had noticed an up-tick in the search traffic on the subject lately, but was hoping not to get bitten (again).
Update: Weird. That literally lasted four minutes. I hope everyone else is that lucky.
I can only assume that religious bigotry and prejudice is driving their activity, as there is no altruistic value in posting our copyrighted scriptures, despite Wikileaks’ self-serving statements to the contrary. -[Source] Emphasis is mine
Copyrighting your scriptures as a means to suppress speaks volumes about an organization, especially a religious one. Poor Guttenberg would have been an unknown.
In what is generally a first, my post on surviving gmail outages has been linked to from another site (that isn’t spammy). The host of Beth’s Blog, a site about non-profits and social media, was experiencing a gmail outage too and it completely ruined her productivity. Someone should start a gMail addicts group, this is almost as bad as when twitter is up down.
In my post on 4 June, What’s new is old again, I mentioned that AMC was going to be showing “Stand by me” and I wondered out loud if the trivia teasers were true. Wil posted today his recollections of the Stand by me set.
I use mint to see live stats for the traffic to skfox.com and Google Analytics for the long term statistics. I’ve seen a resurgence today of traffic to my two blog posts (in March and again in May) about my gMail account being down. The most common for me is a “Temporary Error (502)” and it would seem to be happening to other users too. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but there isn’t a whole lot you can do about it. On the short side, most of the outages only last 30 minutes or so with the longest being 3.5 hours. It can be terribly frustrating, but there are a few things you can do to alleviate the pain.
Some users have reported success getting to their mail during outages by using any number of alternative links to gmail. Your mileage may vary, but here they are: