... and GMAIL goes DOWN !!!!
I read a few articles on the subject, and most claim that the Gmail outage recently (two hours worth) was fixed and things are back to normal, but I have had short outages all day long. Yesterday was also plagued by Blogger glitches, and anyone with the new drop down comment form with word verification was having a slow day ... because the word verification NEVER LOADED! I hate the new Blogger comment forms. They are always glitching and wasting my time. If you have one, please go back to the ugly pop out like the rest of us.
Many, and in fact most people lost Followers on their Blogger blogs as well.
My Number went down 20!! This is from Lillie's Life ... " Lots of people lost followers and they are all so anxious - I have had emails from people asking why I am not following them anymore. For real. I used blog roll not follower to check blogs. Anyway, here is the thing about Followers and how to fix it.To fix the Follower issue, go to Dashboard. On the left you will see "Manage". Click on that. To the right of each blog if you see "Anonymously" against any blogs you are following, you needs to change it to "Publicly." It often reverts to Anonymous for some strange reason. Now you will appear on that person's blog. I imagine they have to do the same to reappear on your blog. " ... Thanks Lillie :-)
Note: I have not used the FOLLOW feature of Blogger because I follow hundreds of blogs, and rely on Feeds, Readers, my own blogroll, and Email alerts.
The Epic Gmail Fail had Twitter Tweeting and spreading wide spread dooms day madness. Twitter users are the most panic stricken group on the planet, because cyber chat and on line communications are like their lifeblood. It is still unclear what happened, but Google says it's investigating the problem. Thank goodness I have 7 different mail accounts, and 5 different blogging mediums. Even my closest blogging friends have never seen THIS BLOG: " Adventures in Garbage "
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Gmail Outage Scares Billions to Yahoo
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I went to your other OTHER other OTHER other blog...
:) Couldn't post a comment because I was too lazy to sign in...
Sooo.... Here it is... for the OTHER post. This is probably really annoying of me but I'm just too tired to make any effort! :)
Thanks just scary!
The pic of you in the mirror is a hoot! :)
Chris ... well, thats not a commenting type blog anyway, more of a memorial to the biggest dung hole I have ever seen. I made a lot of money doing work there, but would shudder at the thought of doing it again!!
don't know how you keep track of so many blogs lol. would be like that lady who had six kids and just had 8 more lol . More power to ya speedy but i'll stick with one .
Randy ... it does seem mad, no ??
I love the ability to catogorize though. This blog never has something I do not want on TOP ... like 12 memes and etc etc
In my crazed blogging world, one blog would explode from 12 posts a day!
Not able to sign in on the other OTHER blog that none of us have seen, so I posted the comment here:
I can't look! Clicked on screen show, but it's TOO SCARY! I'm still looking!!!! I can't stop!
Aaaaaggggghhhhhhhhhh!
Why did you invent this page?
Running
Do you think that G mail will stay in business?
probably, huh?
Wendy !!!!!
Yes ... Google runs the planet :-)
The garbage page reminds me that a bad day is REALLY not that bad.
AND to show people it was real ...
i hate it when that happens. i've lost one follower now. boo-hoo..
and i'm now reverting to the pop-up version for comments. thanks, speedy!
I thought YOU ran the planet? Oh wait...you're the Sherriff of Hollydale. I get those things mixed up sometimes. :)
Speeeeddyyyyyyyyyy!
Did we actually find each other ON LINE AT THE SAME TIME?
Blam blam!
Firing chocolate covered bacon
and I didn't know that google ran the planet ... see ... you really SHOULD write a news column to enlighten the poor unenlightened folk like myself.
psssssssst
Hi Olga!
Wendy and Olga here together???
Is it my birthday ????
YHAAAAAAAAAA HOOOOOOOOOOO !!!!!!!
... is this thing on?
hey ... I haven't disappeared ... just giving my boy a bath then I'll swing by the comment page and check for wild life.
blam blam!!!
oh there you are!
If I ran the planet we would all run out and have corn dog day tomorrow ((smile))
and all the same ... must watch the boy. Safety first!
Dance Speedy! blam blam blam
Olga ... open wide! Chocolate covered bacon coming your way!
pop pop pop pop pop!!! (smaller gun with less velocity for the chocolate covered bits ... makes em go down easier)
I need a bath next week too ... and then I will be pimpin my bloggy!!
If you ran the planet, Speedy, we'd all roll around in corn dog batter tomorrow.
And we'd take pictures and post them on our blog.
Sigh ... wish I could stay!
Back in a bit ... a bacon bit, that is.
Also ... daughter is taking over computer for a minute.
Bye Wendster!!!!!!!!!!
Great to see you, I was hungry :-)
OLGA !!!
Where you go? ((sigh))
Hey ... just popping in to say goodnight and check for any news bulletins
you know ...
escaping chickens rampage Long Island
museum zomby chickens mad eye patrons
. . . anything?
*doing chicken impression*
sccrrrraaaaaaaaaaaaatch
bok bok bok
head on sideways, looks longwise at Speedychicken
bok ... mmmmmmm ... grub!
NEWSFLASH !!!!!!!!!!
Hollydale is under alien attack ... Mayor Speedy Cat is holding them at bay with Choco - Bacon Gun !
Back up arriving on the scene
BRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWKKK
bok bok ????
Brawk bok bok .... BAUKK
bok bok bok bok
Is it a SWAT truck?
Why, yes it is, Chuck. Silly Women Arriving in Town.
And check out those uniforms!
Why, Sam, do they have on ... double breasted suits?
No Chuck! Those are ...
The aliens are now running down main street and the space ship in in meelons field!!!
TRIPLE breasted suits!
Oh my gosh a crowd has gathered here in Hollydale and they can't believe their eyes!
The women are saving the town wearing the double breasted leisure suits!!
Ohhhh my!!!!
Townspeople are all out on their porches cheering .... HOooRAY for the triple women
Chuck, how are they going to chase after the aliens in those stilhetto pump boots?
The Kwik Mart just opened up the corn dog grills outside
Oh my goodness! Those women are pulling off their boots and ... FIRING them at the aliens!
The aliens didnt' see that coming!
Dominos has gotten in on the action. They are offering three for one pizza slices!
everyone pull up a chair and watch the alien barbecue!
Here comes Billy Mays with his new stilhetto pump boot heel holdin` walkers!!!
They work so well no wonder he is always screeming on TV
Chuck, I am beginning to suspect that these women actually have three breasts! Hence the triple breasted suits.
Hollydale water tower DOWN !!!!!
The entire city putting on the flippers and rubber waist flotation ducks
OH! MY! GOSH! That's one alien down!
Those triple breasted suits turn into wetsuits!
And look at that! The aliens don't swim!
The tree breasted women are driving canoes with 100 horse power Johnson Outboards ... it looks like Waterworld with Kevin Costner !!!!
The mayor is putting up a valiant fight!
He is single handedly towing three aliens behind him. SAVING THEIR LIVES.
The crowd is going mad!
The aliens are heavier than human ... sinking like rocks !!!
Should we save them and put them in the local Zoological Gardens?
And look at that Speedboat he just hopped onto!
That's right, mayor! Tie those aliens to the back in little inner tubes.
SHAZAMMMM! He must be going 100 miles per hour!
The local zooligical gardens will do a brisk business with THESE aliens on display, I can tell you that!
Aliens thank rescuers, and ask to join locals .... they claim space is stoooopid anyhow
I do believe that the mayor is going to have no contest when he runs for re-election for his tenth term.
No wonder the towns people adore him so!
space is stoopid.
Aliens give peace offering of 10,000 pound bacon burger !!!!
The SWAT team has jumped from their super canoe and are any of us surprised to see them doing the breast stroke over to the Mayor's speedboat?
LETS EAT!!!!!!!!!!
What a great day here in Hollydale, come-on` aliens, join the feast
chomp chomp chomp
High fives and bacon burgers for everyone~!
This day will go down in history as the day .. ..
as the day ... . .
mayor?
What do you suppose they will call today?
when Gmail crashed this morning I was having a treible time accessing my blog as well.
*10,000 pound bacon burger! Where do you come up with this stuff? LOLOL*
Mayor Speedcat gives all tripple breast women the "golden badge of honor" ... and invites them to Hollydale Parade and Fair
Mike? What do YOU suppose they will call today?
Hi Mike .... grab a chuck out of the 10,000 pound bacon burger before Google comes and claims half !!!!
YHA HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
I will call it the "Day the DOPES came over"
Who WERE those women?
The camera is zooming in ... Hey! We know these women!
Nurse Huggankiss!??!?
Olga!?!??
Drowseymonkey!?!?!?
And Wendster!?!?!?
I cant' believe my eyes, Chuck!
Thank goodness for teamwork .... anyone have a 10,000 gallon Pepsi ???
Look at all the lil aliens, they are crying
Hallmark has just announced a new selection of Dope Day cards, on sale now for $50 dollars each
HA HAAAAAAAAAA !!!!!!!!!!!
Very nice - VERY NICE :-)
Nurse Huggankiss!??!?
Olga!?!??
Drowseymonkey!?!?!?
And Wendster!?!?!?
Please can we take a photo for the Hollydale Times in front of the Mega Bacon Burger??
I like this musical one:
*opens card to hear it play*:
The mayor's the champion my friends!
And we'll praise the SWAT team, to the end! NAH NAH NAH NAHHHHHHH!
We are the champions!
We are the champions!
Looks like the aliens
Are here to be displays!
That's the end!!!!!
As my luck goes, I had to refresh the comment popout on your blog. Herumph.
I did not notice the outage. In the days of "last earlier" (as my son puts in--he means "yesterday") I might have noticed and panicked. But I have, also, more accounts. Thankfully most of my stuff is sent to another account.
Sheesh, get it together, Google!
Here is my card .........
Roses are Red
Violets are Blue
Better get some aliens
Happy dope day to you
*fixing her hair, lipstick, and adjusting her three cuppies and grabbing the ladies*
ha ha
grabbing the ladies
I crack myself up
Come on girls! We're getting our pictcha taken with the mayuh!!!
lol @ Speedkins
Hi SUE !!!!!!!
Grab some burger chunks .... they are out in the street, and here is a singing Hallmark card from Wenster, one of the brave award winning triple breasted women of Canoe heel shotgun alien getters
Here's a card from the "syrupy sweet" section:
DIE ALIENS! DIE DIE DIE!!!
Join us Sue!
We're eating after 7 p.m.! heh heh heh
later we are going to go roll around in corn dog batter
snap .... snap flash flash
MAN ! What an incredible photo! These are the most beautiful women all in one group since Charlies Angels went off the air. Can I have some autographs ???
Posing in front of giant bacon burger with the rest of the SWAT team and the brave mayor of Hollydale.
Hey Mayuh, let's sit on the alien's heads for the pictchuh! They'uh completely tame now!
I have a new card too ...
Aliens aliens, they are dumb
Happy Day of the Dopes
HA HAAAAAAAA !!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was just goin to ask YOU for yo' autograph, mayuh!
Where do you want us to sign?
*autographs tree trunk ... blinded by flashes*
I have a bald patch on my back .... RIGHT HERE !!!
My yo'h arm is rough, mayuh!
Call Marco!
Polo!
I'll find you.
I think Sue dissappeared in the 10,000 pound bacon burger ... I saw her last with a 2000 pound omion ring
POOOOO LOOWWWWWWWWW
1000 pound orion ring???
The next threat to the town ???
*writing paragraph on Mayor Speedy's back*
Signing it
From the ladies of the SWAT team,
You sign too, Drowsey, Nurse Huggans, and Olga!
Now mayuh, you have to promise nevuh to bathe again, alright?
.... oh look, pizza
... think we should send out a search team for Sue?
a one ton onion ring?
Pass that over here!
NOPE!!!!
No bathing, I learned how to use aftershave lotion at a French Restaurant ...
... pinned under onion ring ... legs kicking, arms flailing!
mumble mumble mumble
ha ha ha ha ha! French Restaurant.
.... too late !!!!!!!
((((beltchhhhhhh)))))
I mean ... mumble mumble mumble
saving lives by eating ..... i like this !!!
ha ha ha! I love this "delay in seeing each other's post" thing ...
Speedy: I ate the whole thing!
Wendy: I'm pinned under a giant onion ring.
lolololol!!!
ROFLMAO ...
if only saving lives were that easy
Hey! I'm free! thanks for eating that giant onion ring, Mayor!
Helicopters from the United Nations flying over .... give them the thumbs up.
We are OK !!!!!!!!! (thanks to the triple breasted hook bills)
psssssst ... how come I don't have a little picture by my entries?
How did you get that Speedy mayor?
... and is it 11 or 12 where you are?
Obama just sent a check for 10 billion !!!!!
Relief assistance .... can you buy a new roller coaster with 10 billion dollars??
11 o clocks
*waving thumb weakly ... catching breath.*
Thank heavens you ate quickly!
Oh my. all the aliens and half of the towns people have passed out.
A belch THAT big deserves a prize!!!
*crowns mayor with an onion ring "crumb"
The profile page at blogger ... maybe they ATE your pichah ???
A roller coaster AND an order of fries.
Hmmmmmmmm ... I gotta check that out.
... . "about me"?
YHAAAAAAAAA HOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!
peace in the vally and plenty of ketchup too, gimme somw mustard and a pickle yoooooo
Onion rings!!!! Give me nice bright breath and some gastronimic happiness, please dont take my onion rings away ... ohh yeahhhh
yup yup ... bout you bout you
yeeee haaaaaaaa!
Wendster ... it is time for me to retire, but I must say this was a great "commenting adventure"
So glad we met in Main Street Commons before the invasion.
((((smile)))))
10,000 hugs tooo :-)
Thanks for spending the night with me
wink wink
Good night Speedkins
ha haaaaaaa !!!!!!!!!
later tator
(heh heh! I put up a picture! Wooo hoooooooooooooo!)
HEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I C U - Yep, Charlies Angels
Goodnight :)
after a while crocodile
outtie
listening in still .....
he heee
Ooops
just saw those ten thousand hugs
sending ten thousand hugs BACK
innie alligator
and a nip on the ear to chase away bad dreams.
OOOOPS!!!!!
sorry bout the gas ... your hugs are strong!
slllllurrrrrp
cough
gasp!
((((((((blush))))))))))
tasting your after shave was a TERRIBLE idea.
golli !!!!!!!
It was from Walgreens .........
night!
I'm going downstairs for shaved ice now.
We can do that in California. Cuz it's still warm here.
(I even have the window open!)
(really going now)
thanks for the fun.
You are, as always, a delightful distraction my friend.
None weirder/sillier/more spontaneous in the whole North west, I am certain.
crunch
ahem ... I mean north east?
I need to watch the geography channel.
And I really AM leaving now.
dawdler, me.
Hello? Anybody here?
Dannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnng it!
Yes its a pain in the ass this Blogger thing. Lots of people lost followers and they are all so anxious - I have had emails from people asking why I am not following them anymore. For real. I used blog roll not follower to check blogs. Anyway, here is the thing about Followers and how to fix it.
To fix the Follower issue, go to Dashboard. On the left you will see "Manage". Click on that. To the right of each blog if you see "Anonymously" against any blogs you are following, you needs to change it to "Publicly." It often reverts to Anonymous for some strange reason. Now you will appear on that person's blog. I imagine they have to do the same to reappear on your blog. So spread the word!
Now its telling me I psoted teh thing twice. I need a drink and its only the middle of the day. Blogger is going to crash and burn it seems. Something is going wrong!
HA! Hi Speedy! The comment box on your posts always make me dizzy! :D
Like a spinning out of control amusement park ride---ha ha!
Your garbage page made my skin crawl a little. Made me want to go clean something. :D Maybe that's a good thing--ha ha!
I like how easy it is to use blogger and set up shop- but in the end the comment thing irritates me so I moved my very popular and beautiful and stunning and critically acclaimed and super duper blog
vintage jewelry pictures
off a blogger because of the comments. It took my husband a bit of work but it was worth it.
Daisy, that gives me an idea! I'm gonna leave that garbage page up on my computer screen! It will MAKE me finish up the dining room today. For some reason this room always defeats me. Perhaps because the computer is sitting in the same room, tempting me?
Speedy, I am chuckling today over the gmail thing and how you described Twitter people (like you are not one of their kind) .. and then link to you millionth blog (probably while checking mail on your 100th account!).
You are SO FUNNY! Really, I smile over something new every time I come over here, even if there isn't a new post. I just reread the old ones on a different level. :)
Oh, and since you were looking for donuts, I sent you someone FB. Not that you go there. :)
I have a gmail account but I really don't like it, so I never use it. I have at least 10 email addy's and receive all my mail in my desktop application.
rumour has it a jelly donut got stuck in the G mail server..it dropped out of a certain traveling undergarments cup holder..we are trying to verify the whole tawdry affair
HHMM I better go check my Gmail. I only check it every 2 or 3 weeks. OOPS!
Dang where was I? I didn't know they had an outage lol. I was too busy working and eating chicken.
How many secretaries help you run your part-time Blogging Business? ;))
LOL Moneypenny!
Olga ... sorry I missed you last night. I know you would have been GREAT FUN during the alien invasion.
And invaluable, without a doubt!
Also ... I like babies and I don't own Brad's balls.
Yes, Blogger has been playing tricks. Have you seen the disappearing posts trick? You see everything except the posts. The posts come back eventually.
I have a post on my blog similar to Lillie's Life. I'm glad that your spreading the word too. I want my people back on the follower list! Boo Hoo! Well, I did get about 5 back, but still down about 12. *sniff*
I thought I heard one massive, collective scream in the early hours yesterday...
And this time it wasn't because of the Memphis crime- zing!
I didn't have any problem with my gmail. I hate Yahoo, it is always locking up my computer and I get tons of spam on it. I also use AOL besides Yahoo and Google. If you just hit post when the words don't show up, it will give you a word. I also hate the new identity box of some blogs, it does not work half the time.
Connie ... people that have trouble with Yahoo usually have a computer that glitches with flash content. Yahoo is notorious for injecting flash advertizements on mail pages. Of course you can get Yahoo without ads, but then they charge you!
SPAM?? ... they have the worst spam filters of any mail service I know! I do carry many mail accounts though, so I can sub-catogorize mail. I also "protect" my gmail accounts and do not use them for internet purposes.
LOVED your recent photos .... very nice!
REv ... LOL!!!!!!!!! We have pockets of "not so safe" areas here too. Good thing I am the mayor :-)
Awake ... dissapearing CONTENT is almost always caused by an outside source. For instance, when "SITEMETER" is not running correctly, all users running IE are affected in this manner. The same can occur with any JAVA source not responding in a timely fasion. I bet you surf with EXPLORER .... correct??
Wendster!!! ... I likie your new avatari (smile)
Speedy like Wendster
Miss Moneypenny - that is TOP SECRET 0007 info. Not for the general public!!
Rolando ... on the West coast, you were still SLEEPING !!!!
Maybe you had chicken takeout in bed???? HA HAAAAAAAAA !!!!!
Michelle ... NO WAY !!!
You must have 10,000 emails when you check. Whew !
Robert .... I KNEW IT !!!!!!!
The donuts are so tasty, yet so DANGEROUS in the wrong hands, (or cups)
Beetle ... I was going to go in that direction too, but find it easier for my to leave multiple windows open for different accounts. When Gmail hits, I know it is blogger comments, and so forth. I am one of those crazed people that always has at least 5-7 windows open and running all the time. I like chaos !!!
Chris ... you know, I often sit down with an agenda. First I will do this, and then go there, but it NEVER works. I am distracted by anything and everything. I start a blog post, research, and then find I have web surfed to 20 other places. I also have a bad habit of responding to current comments etc. before responding to others. I have to be the most unorganized person on the planet!!
As far as being a neat freak - that does NOT describe me either. The fact that I found the "dirty house" so revolting tells a story in itself. What's Facebook???
Twitter??? Yah, I like that for sure, but my tweets are complete babble of non-substance .... unlike my Pulizer rize winning writting here.
HE HEEE
Michelle .... Speedy LOVES your candor !!!!!!!!!!!
(this is his secretary)
Daisy ... pictures and words will never do justice to that house.
Final bill was over 9000 dollars to renovate and empty the place. Four industrial 24 foot dumpsters 7 feet tall were filled and two trucks of "NON GARBAGE" left this residence. The stench was overpowering to say the least. This family let there older parents sit in there for a decade, and sent in meals on wheels. Note one "meal" or milk carton was ever thrown away. I honestly believe nothing was thrown away in that decade. The kids should be charged with a criminal offence. Just awful .... :(
Lillie .... GREAT info, I added it to my post (((smile)))
OLGA "Paging Cuppie .... come in Cuppie!!"
That's way I do as little as possible with google. All I want from them is my monthly cha-check!!!!
Hi Debo !!!
Cha Ching .... to be fair, 99.9% of the time I have no problems with blogger or google/gmail. I was trying to ride the "search train" with this post (just a secret between me and you)
Sometimes I try and use keywords that are a "goldmine" for visitors ;-)
*I* lost one of my 11 children during the outage. I would be outraged, but I'm really finding the extra money from the lost child quite nice. I bought a cd.
GMail, hhhmmm I ponder, should it be called geeeemail ? I love technology but I will never give up me rotary phone :D
I also don't use the "follow" feature of Blogger.
I've got feed readers that do that for me.
How, pray tell, do we get our followers back?
I love Gmail for spam filtering, but hate it for the terrible lack of organization of emails in my inbox.
In Yahoo, I can look at the inbox to see what I have. In Gmail, I am forced to use search. What a mess.
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