Ping... this is the worst.
I couldn’t find anything new about gmail having a problem on any of the news/computer alert sites.
stepping back in time to last month...
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10236377-36.html?tag=mncol
May 8, 2009 3:21 AM PDT
“Gmail suffers a short outage”
by Caroline McCarthy