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

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.

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