Blue Screen of Death at Olympics

You’ve probably seen it before, that heart jolting computer monitor sight: the Blue Screen of Death. The Blue Screen (BSoD) message can pop up on computers running Windows operating systems letting a user know that a problem has been detected, and Windows will be shut down – often loosing data and anything a user is working on.

The BSoD is a common poke by techies at Microsoft’s bug-prone systems, so you may be asking yourself, why are the words BSoD and Olympics popping up together today on message boards and forums worldwide?

Yet another opening ceremony flaw has retrospectively come to light today: a projected image of the BSoD onto the roof of the Bird’s Nest stadium while veteran Chinese gymnast Li Ning was suspended on his way up to light the Olympic flame.

Images of the malfunction message have popped up on Chinese websites early this morning, and news of yet another opening ceremony mishap has spread like wild fire. This news comes in just hours after last night’s lip synching revelation, and yesterday’s fake fireworks drama.

What is in store for us tomorrow? Check back to the NZS.com blog for Olympic Games 2008 updates.

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