I cant get access to any of google's https links....i can access the GMail page but then it goes down after you log in.

Google of all companies!!

Yeah, me too. Google main page is almost 100% reliable, but Gmail does go down from time to time. Tsk tsk.

They got slashdotted – or at least, can't cope with all the traffic they're generating (yeah, it's Google, but apparently not the same server farm as usual for Google Sitemaps): http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/002037.html