Projects Possible

If you follow the projectspossible.com blog much you know that I have a love/hate relationship with email.  I think I am in the current mode of loving to hate it.  Yesterday added to my frustration when my personal email account hosted over at Google’s Gmail was down for what seemed like eons.  (I think in all actuality it was probably just a couple of hours.)   My Gmail Notifier would still tell me that I had mail but every time I tried to access my account I would get an error message telling me that I had to try again later.  I was just like Pavlov’s dog… every time I would get that notification I would want to open up my Gmail account and read whatever wonderful musing was being sent to me.

I absolutely love Gmail… Over the years it has become my collection point for all of my email accounts.   I forward anything and everything personal to that account and use it to archive the things I want to keep.  When I was not able to log in for a couple of hours it had me asking myself a couple of questions… First – should I be putting all of my eggs in one basket?  I don’t suspect that Google will be going away any time soon but at the same time I also can’t help but wonder what I would do if a 2 hour outage turned into 12 hours or 18 hours or days?  The second question – Does it really matter?  I should probably just consider it Google’s way of giving me a break from the increasingly awful thing called email.  My email free Monday afternoon.   Many companies and individuals are subscribing to the email free days… I think I need to break into it a few hours at a time…  Thanks Google for reminding me to try it again.

Google did post a blog article that you can find here. They called it We Feel Your Pain and We’re Sorry.  I’m not quite sure HOW they felt my pain but I took comfort in knowing that they apologized and they are using it as a learning experience.