I just don’t get it.
Some people put on a perfectly-working watch and it suddenly starts losing time. Technology seems to hate them. This guy is a case in point (and his article prompted this entry), but I’ve known other people who had the same problem, including some of my relatives.
On the other hand, most technology seems to really like me. When I walk up to a machine that isn’t working, the chances are good that it will suddenly start working properly, even without me doing anything more than looking at it (which makes me popular around relatives’ machines). I very rarely have technological devices fail on me too.
Modern science has no explanation for either phenomenon, other than some vague mumblings about statistics that explain nothing, or bull-headed insistence that it’s all in our heads (which doesn’t seem to cut it either). I have no answer, and my speculations are no more rational than thinking that simple machines can like or dislike people, so I leave it as an exercise for the reader.
Well, I had a hard-drive crash recently, but I’ve had it over 5 years. Other than that, hardware rarely fails on me. I’ve had almost the same phenomena concerning computers. Computers seem to like me. I know that I’m good enough at fixing computer problems that I am aiming at joining the IT field.