I find it somewhat ironic that the first time Skype has had a major outage since 2007 is right around the holidays when everyone and their mother (literally) is making calls to their loved ones or people they feel obligated to stay in touch with if the end result is gifts, and when business is most certainly on the rise.

Over 20 millions calls are made per day and Skype says it’s been running at about half that volume due to a software malfunction… A very expensive one.

You can follow their blog for updates that states they’re slowly getting more people back online, which I’ve not experience so I’m convinced they’re a bunch of big fat liars. But in the meantime if you’re in desperate need to make that phone call check out other programs like Oovoo, or even AIM video chat.

Also to be noted: If you look at the word “Skype” long enough it begins to become an unintelligble mash of letters…