More on the Sidekick out(r)age
More links on the T-Mobile/Sidekick disaster.
This article on Engadget is probably the best of the lot -- it blames it on Microsoft outsourcing an upgrade to the storage-area network without making a backup first. You would think... And there may be another disaster in the making, if their $50 all-you-can-eat plan comes out and people who haven't learned from the Sidekick debacle (or know how to run rsync on their Android phones) pile on and suck up all their bandwidth.
And here's Gizmodo saying that, whatever you may have heard from T-Mobile, your data is probably G O N E.
Good luck.