Google, it would appear, have about 10 servers serving Gmail. They might well have more behind the 10 IP addresses, with each IP address handling a cluster of machines. Knowing Google’s love of distributed programming I suspect that it is more than 10 computers. Why am I mentioning this? Well, Google GMail is technically still in beta. Many people joke that Google is totally and perpetually in beta, despite what seems to be perfect operation.

So, according to The Register, Gmail had an outage for several hours that hit a substantial number of users. What that percentage of people had issues with access to Gmail is unknown as Google is not talking.

I also read on the SMH about how a highschool principal has been caught selling school furniture on eBay. Not that the principal was selling the furniture without approval or permission… It is just that selling on eBay sounds like it is too visible for the government.