A bad computer file forced the New Year's Eve fireworks display in Seattle to be launched manually, resulting in a show that was out of sync with its choreographed music, according to a report in ComputerWorld.
Then, right after midnight, a software problem affected the Verizon wireless network in the Washington, DC area into early New Year's day, reports the Washington Post.
Next Intuit had to announce yesterday that the "permanent patch" for a bug in QuickBooks on the Mac that erased files from users' hard drives that was released on 31 December, does not in fact completely fix the flaw, reports ComputerWorld.
Finally, some Seminole County Florida residents opened their water bills for December 2007 and found bills for both December 2007 and 2006. As the Orlando Sentinel explains, "billing information from December 2006 was not purged from the [county's automated computer-billing] computer memory, so the system generated a bill based on that information."
Glad to see that 2008 is looking a lot like 2007 in the IS&T department, or as The Who would say, "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss."
