http://www.canada.com/technology/story.html?id=f6ebf013-4d44-4f13-90a2-a938292f4739
Bad vibes, man! This is hilarious, and confirms my suspicions. I had a coworker for a few years who managed to blow out SIX optical drives on three different machines. We started calling him “Radioactive Man” (and unbeknownst to the balding loser who sat next to him, he did have a sidekick “Fallout Boy”): “Some people seem to carry a computer curse, frustrated by a plague of viruses, hard-drive failures, power surges and software conflicts that appear and disappear without rational explanation.”