GCM…
For those of you who are looking for GCM answers, here ya go 
GCM has been taken offline by the company that co-locates their shared server. GCM has gotten too big and was using other people’s resources. That’s what has been causing the errors. The co-locating company finally got fed up with it and shut off our permissions to the site until we can find a solution.
Basically the only solution is for GCM to get its own server, but that is going to cost money. Jeri has set up a fund for us to donate so that she can afford to move GCM to its own server. We saw that this day was coming, but were hoping that it had a little more time.
So if you want to donate, here’s the link. Jeri is looking at a cost of about $100 a month plus a one-time setup fee of $40. My husband and I talked about it, and we want to set up to give monthly. I’ve talked to a bunch of other GCMers and we’re thinking that if we can just get 50 people to do $2/month, then that’d cover it. That’s just the cost of a 2-liter of soda and when you work out the price per hour… well, its a good deal!
We’re also planning on doing a larger one-time donation just to get everything going
I’ll keep ya’ posted if there is any new news.
PS NO DATA HAS BEEN LOST FROM GCM. Don’t worry about that - its all there, we just need a new server that can handle all of us accessing it at once.