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Just in case you didn't know, XBox Live and the Creator's Club website are both down today. You can read the XNA team blog for more details. But all is not lost, you should have plenty to do in your spare time.
One thing you could do is head over to XNAResources.com. That's right, they're back! And they're starting a new 2D tutorial series that looks like it's going to be an extremely useful set of tutorials for the community. (Welcome back guys! It feels good to be recommending your site again.) It's called the "Star Defense Tutorial Series".
Another pretty cool thing that's been happening is that Reimer Grootjans (he wrote the XNA Recipe book) has been doing a series of fairly advanced 2D tutorials as well. Definitely worth going through if you're looking to improve your game development skills, so head over and check out that series
So get coding, sharpen those skills and be ready when everything goes live to resume life as usual. It's only 24 hours, we can survive that right?