Yesterday I started hearing from folk that their GMail account had gone haywire. They were locked out or the system kept stalling - and similar experiences were found in Google Calendar and other Google Applications. These issues have now been resolved with Google engineers sorting everything out pretty quickly.

Its a little bit wierd - you get something for free and you get lots of complaints when it breaks! What do people expect of Google that said the telling line in one email I received regarding these problems with google applications included:

“[It's] Kind of annoying when I’m trying to do things, and kind of unusual for them; they’re normally very reliable.

Maybe they hired some useless XXXXX from Myspace…”

Cheers to Ronnie the email made me laugh.

UPDATE

Google have posted an apology online in response to their mini-crisis here.