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A technical glitch prevented users from accessing their Hotmail accounts last Tuesday. According to a Microsoft spokeswoman, “the issue is purely impacting the login process for customers and largely does not impact 
customers who were already logged in”.
Oh! Well in that case, thank God! That makes it so much better and more acceptable, doesn’t it? Those sorry-ass slobs who were not logged in didn’t really deserve to get logged in.
Let’s face it. We’re all slaves to email. We get hundreds a day, and everyone expects a quick response. Finding ourselves completely overwhelmed by the sheer volume of emails, we begin to experiment with different strategies for managing them. We flag them, color code them, move them to various folders – all to reduce the number of emails in our Inbox.
As if the already unmanageable volume of email and spam was not enough, we also get overwhelmed by the inconsiderate cc-all & reply-all emailers. You know who they are. Every email they send must go to every individual in their address book. God forbid they miss spamming someone for a day. They spare nobody.
And to top it all off, we get addicted to Crackberries. Not at work or in front of your PC? That’s not an excuse for not checking email, darn it.
At first blush, it appears that this Hotmail outage is another example of Microsoft’s inability to produce and maintain reliable software. But look a little deeper and you’ll discover the true genius in Microsoft’s wisdom. Closing the door on email, even for a few hours, is one of the greatest gifts Microsoft could have given us!
Imagine this. You go to work tomorrow and have no access to email. That’s freedom baby; cease the opportunity. Lift your head up and stop staring at your monitor (and for God’s sake, comb your hair for a change). Take a peak outside your cubicle (wipe the drool off your mouth first). Get off your chair and start walking (don’t forget to put your shoes back on). Keep walking until you’re out of the building. Look up. That vast blue dome is the sky (trust me, it there, it’s just covered up with clouds right now). That big, shiny object is the Sun (Of course you can’t see . . . duh, I didn’t say to look at it). Take a deep breath 
and smell the air (if you’re from New Jersey, skip this step). Start walking and say hello to anyone you see (residents of East and South Central Los Angeles should not attempt this). Go home and spend time with your family take a nap (you deserve it). Read a story to your children Ask your spouse to read a story to your children while you prepare dinner (frozen pizza is perfectly acceptable). Eat dinner with your entire family and carry a meaningful conversation while watching “Are you Smarter Than a Fifth Grader”. Cuddle with your significant other Make mad, passionate love to your lover spouse. Feel the liberation.
That is one brilliant strategy. Viva Microsoft! What would we ever do without you? The only thing left to 
do is to merge Microsoft and Yahoo and have 2 major email systems down at the same time.
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