Computer glitch stops New Year's Eve fireworks at Space Needle

Finally, six minutes after midnight, the fireworks began in earnest, but appeared to only shoot out on the west side of the Needle.

Apparently the computer reboot didn't work, so technicians had to fire each firework sequence manually.

The eight-minute show ended up being about 12 minutes long, and outlasted the music.

Space Needle offiicals say a corrupted computer file caused the problems.

People who posted comments about the mishap on BloggerKING speculated on what operating system was used on the computer.

"Hey, is that Vista on that fireworks laptop?" said Chang.

"Powered by Windows 3.1," said "The Dude."

And finally, Chris had this comment: "In the land of Bill Gates, computers and high-tech savvy, we had to reboot 2008 because of a computer glitch. We'll be remembered for sure!"