...in that, if a computer is in any way associated with carole it dies a horrible death. their innovation and creativity in this matter is what surprises and impresses me the most. they don't just refrain from loading or complain loudly about lack of memory. their ultimate self inflicted demise is inevitably altogether more exotic, or shall we say "colorful". in the most recent example, caroles laptop suffered a massive seizure from spyware overload. upon formatting the hardrive and attempting to reinstall windows (from a very reliable install disk) it would get about halfway through the format and then turn itself off. i've narrowed this particular problem down to a faulty connection somewhere along the power supply chain (i'll have to open it up). my old desktop (which has been cheerfully humming away on my desk for over 2 months) was subsequently delegated to be her new computer. i reinstalled windows and beefed it up with spyware protection. i buffed up all the drivers to scratch and installed her favorite software. i tested WoW to make sure it worked fine (it actually runs better than on my laptop except for the lack of pixel shaders on the graphics card, which makes everything look a bit flat). i left the computer in carole's hands for one day and when i got home from work she had managed to get the bluescreen of death (from doing absolutely nothing out of the ordinary) and the keyboard now intermittently ceases to function.
maybe she emits some kind of radiation that interferes with technology. that's it, i'm getting her a geiger counter for christmas...
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