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How a power outage in San Francisco silenced us for 4 hours on Tuesday

July 25, 2007 by serge the concierge

Some of you might have tried unsuccessfully to read us on Tuesday.

Between the hours of 4:00 pm and 8:00 pm (US, Eastern Standard Time) our blog host, TypePad and many other services such as Red Envelope and CraigsList got shut down by a Power Outage in San Francisco.

I thought it would be useful to share this piece of information with readers outside the US who could have wondered about the reasons for this 'blackout'.

Usually things work smoothly until a glitch happens.

Nothing is perfect!

Should the soundtrack for this include Gary Numan 'Are Friends Electric', Orchestral Maneuvres in The Dark 'Electricity', Jimi Hendrix  'Electric Ladyland'   and Kraftwerk 'Electric Cafe'

Related stories: Off the Electric Grid again yesterday

Posted on July 25, 2007 in Consumer Products, Event, Serge the Concierge, To Do Lists, Web/Tech | | Comments (1)

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