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What do we do if both Gmail and Twitter are down?
Sep 1st
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?
New Spam Quiche feature on Gmail
Jul 2nd
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. 
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