Took me a little while to sort out that I didn't mess up my firewall rules on the proxy server at home. :-) Google, or at least the datacenter(s) their DNS was sending me to was down for a minute or three.
[root@freja ~]# telnet www.google.com 80
Trying 66.102.7.99...
telnet: connect to address 66.102.7.99: Connection refused
Trying 66.102.7.104...
telnet: connect to address 66.102.7.104: Connection refused
Trying 66.102.7.147...
telnet: connect to address 66.102.7.147: Connection refused
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
At least there are plenty other reasonable search engines to use.
A few days ago del.icio.us was down for a little while - bye bye bookmarks! That was worse actually. A small app to mirror del.icio.us bookmarks locally would be helpful for backup in a situation like that.
I don't know about an app but there is at least an API to retrieve your del.icio.us bookmarks, see http://codeconsult.ch/bertrand/archives/000567.html
the mysqlicious script looks like a good start. http://nanovivid.com/projects/mysqlicious/
i so far have avoided using del.icio.us i know i should jump on board, i think i'll add the Bookmark this! WordPress Plugin to my page first as a start.