The first few days of results revealed some surprises: Bangalore ranked at the bottom of India's major cities in air quality (though this was partly due to a glitch), while notoriously smoggy Delhi was somewhere in the middle, with a "Moderate" rating.
An interview of SlingMedia's Brian Jaquet revealed that there were some glitches in the company's plans to get the Player out the door, including the launch of Intel-based Macs.
Public records reveal some answers.
Internal notes released to the Republican-controlled House oversight committee and leaked to CBS on Thursday night revealed that software glitches and site-overload problems prevented all but a determined handful of customers from completing their applications.
The project ran into serious problems last year, however, after Livermore officials revealed that technical glitches and management missteps would delay the project beyond its scheduled 2003 completion date and drive up costs (Science, 31 March, p. 2389).
Davies says, in the first week of the season, it revealed a glitch in the baggage handling airside at Grenoble airport and a problem at some accommodation in Les Deux Alpes.
And with the four helicopter routes settled, 50 pounds of election materials and supplies delivered to each precinct and Saturday's dry run revealing no glitches, election officials here said they felt most everything was in place.
Her challenge reveals the glitches in a process that demands that its participants act as cold-blooded proceduralists, just when they are making the kind of life-or-death decisions most likely to get them worked up.
To track the traffic, Paramount installed High Tower software last October, and by Christmas the problem revealed itself: a glitch-prone switch.
Mr. Brion writes orchestral works, quirkily wistful pop songs and home-studio assemblages; often he conjures antique Romanticism that reveals its own glitches and creaks.
