I was sitting here working earlier when you would have thought the world dropped out for hundreds of people. All of sudden people all over Twitter were upset because Gmail was down.

Google Inc said on Monday it has resolved an issue with its contacts system that caused many users of its Gmail service to have trouble accessing their online e-mail.

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Google said an outage in the contacts system used by Gmail prevented the e-mail system from loading properly. The company also said that there may be minor delays in deliveries even though all mail is safe.

I couldn’t help but chuckle. Oh sure, I use Gmail. In fact, I have two Gmail accounts. The thing is, I knew they would get things resolved and all would be well again. No need to run around like a chicken with my head cut off, or boo-hoo and belly ache because they were down. I just had to wait an hour before I could pull up an email from a company about car covers. It wasn’t going to rain, I was in no rush.

Heck. It was an historic event. Gmail was down and people talked about it on Twitter, which was up. Who would have thought that could have ever happened?

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