Public service announcement: the PlayStation Store is down, as is Home from where we're sitting which is in the United Kingdom.
If you try to connect right now from the UK, you'll be greeted with a message telling you that it isn't available in your country. Trying to get at account management brings up error message 80023017. The whole network isn't down - the Home servers seem to be working.
SPOnG got hold of a Sony rep to ask if they could tell us how long the Store's out of action for and was told, "I'm afraid not."
Public service announcement ends.