Engineering a New World

Whoa!  4:30pm EST on 1 Sept.  Are aliens landing?  If they were, I wouldn’t know – because both Twitter and Gmail are down at the same time!

Gmail gives me a 502 server error, then offers this as to the status:

Tried to then tweet about it, but then saw that tweets on the subject of “gmail” were coming in at a rate of approximately 4500 every 30 seconds.  Then, when I tried to tweet on it, Twitter keeled on me too:

Thank goodness Facebook was still working….or are they next?

As I was busy handling my spam box in Gmail today, I thought that the choice of Google AdWords ads was particularly entertaining:

Not particularly relevant to what I was doing, but enough to get me to click on it – as out of the corner of my eye, I though it said “Spam Cache” or “Spam Catcher” and I thought, “what’s this?”

I had just been poking around to appreciate the new drag & drop capabilities that Google just launched with Gmail, so I figured the Spam Quiche might just be another feature they added to round out their Spam Handling features.