5.. 4.. 3.. 2.. DANG!
Not fun in Seattle last night. From the
Post Intelligencer:
Computer glitch interrupts Needle fireworks
A computer glitch led to a delayed fireworks show at the Seattle Center on Monday night as partiers waited to ring in the new year.
The show started on time at 11:59, said Mary Bacarella, spokeswoman for the Space Needle, but in the last minute of 2007 the crew from Pyro Spectaculars realized that the computer file running the show was corrupted.
Instead of continuing to use the bad file, the company's three-man crew, stationed in a trailer near the Needle, executed the show manually. "The whole show was supposed to last eight and a half minutes and it went for 11 and a half minutes," Bacarella said.
Bacarella said the show ran in numerical sequence and all the fireworks went off, but it was not in sync with the music. The show's accompaniment was a compilation of Oscar-winning tunes, including "Somewhere Over the Rainbow."
(insert obligatory Windows Vista potshot)
You would think that they would carry a copy of the file on a thumb drive or something...
Posted by DaveH at January 1, 2008 6:55 PM