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Notes from a mental case

There are some people who believe that they are simply cursed with technology. That over and above all reasonable glitches, they simply give off bad vibes which make gadgets, IT and electronics fail all around them.
I have a different affliction: I believe that some brands of mobile phone bring me bad karma. Specifically, Nokia.
About a month ago I switched back to one (the E65, reviewed below) from a Sony Ericsson W880i. To say that my personal life has been turned upside down since then is an understatement.
Specifically, where my phone used to bring me messages of hope and positivity, it has morphed into a weapon of doom. Texts have turned incendiary. Calls have left me fighting uphill battles. Even the weather has turned into a disaster.
And the only difference I can ascertain in my circumstances is my phone.
Is my using a Nokia E65 sparking a mini Chaos theory in the environment around me? Is it possible, even, that others have suffered a downturn in their fortunes in the last month? Should I, for the sake of peace of mind, just give in to this superstitious hunch and switch back to the W880i?
I feel like the paranoid football supporter (which I am) who sits watching a penalty shoot-out, convinced that my thoughts, actions, or attitude have some minor effect on the outcome 1,000 miles away.
I feel, ridiculously, that my using this piece of tech has disturbed some harmonious continuum and I've wreaked a cosmic backlash.
Ridiculous? No question. Laughable? Undeniably.
Wrong, though?

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