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Here's another episode of the fun with stopcharacters for #musicmonday

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Here's another episode of the fun with stopcharacters for  

Last time we covered the curious case of "ke ha"

Today we have someone that's truly ungoogleable.  He's Matthieu Chedid, better known by his stage name "-M-" (that's dash, M, dash)  Go ahead, try searching for that, you won't find it on Google, Youtube, or Play.  Not even Dailymotion or Fnac.

This is sad because less people see and hear his high-energy rock&roll played on a pacman-ghost guitar.  Enjoy!

 
 
 
 

This out-of-print audio book is a must-listen.

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This out-of-print audio book is a must-listen.

Brought to my attention by Julie Lindner via a Gibson retweet.

Note that a 5-disc CD version was made - we have one.

 
 

So had a four hour power outage last night. Pretty sure we're down to 2 nines of availability for the year.

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So had a four hour power outage last night. Pretty sure we're down to 2 nines of availability for the year.

You'd think with all the new Smart Meters that 

Pacific Gas and Electric Company should accurately know about power outages in near real time. Instead of alerting on their usage graphs it appears that the primary feedback mechanism is phone calls.

I've asked for a callback.  When I do I'll post it to the Postmortems community.  Ought to be interesting...