A catalogue of things that have broken recently

Technology is not liking me at the moment. In the past few weeks I've discovered the following items to be non-functional:

• The DVD-ROM/CD-RW in my laptop
• The 6GB portable drive which I believed to be solid state, but when plugged in appears to have malfunctioning platters by the odd, high-pitched grinding noise
• The enclosed CD-RW drive hooked up to my desktop computer
• My electric razor

Suggestions to how I should Earl-Hickey this bad-tech karma are welcome.