Gmail drops off the map

Gmail disappeared for a number of hours today with an as-yet-undefined issue that affected the free gmail service as well as the paid for hosted mail apps functionality. Unfortunately for Google, the popularity of the service means then when they do go down, it pretty much gets noticed. I wonder if we will hear the cause of this one.

In other news, I was pretty disappointed to see this story pop up. New childrens’ TV presenter Cerrie Burnell has become the target of criticism. Why? because she has only one hand. Amazingly, people have expressed that they think it is too “disturbing” for their kids to watch. Seriously? I don’t even know where to start with that one. Maybe if you educated your own kids instead of being too scared or bigoted to talk to them, then they wouldn’t have an issue. At least the comments on the BBC magazine article are mostly reasonable, showing that the majority of people are (possibly) still sane.