Well, this ain't my desk but I found it online. It's freaking awesome. You guys really need to check it out!

Before and After: Barren Attic to Programmer's Paradise

The magnet I have is a thin and somewhat weak magnet. It's those... paper-ish type. Would it affect my laptop if I have it on the wall behind it? NOT on my laptop?

That's what we think killed the PC I was talking about but the "user" had the PC covered. Now can we prove that, nope, as we reinstalled the PC with the same HDD and it ran for quite awhile after. If it was me I'd move them but I'm kinda A*AL when it comes to protecting my data.

Originally Posted by PC World

Magnets zap your data.

Photograph: Chip Simons
For venerable floppies, this statement holds true. We placed a 99-cent magnet on a 3.5-inch floppy for a few seconds. The magnet stuck to the disk and ruined its data.
Fortunately, most modern storage devices, such as SD and CompactFlash memory cards, are immune to magnetic fields. "There's nothing magnetic in flash memory, so [a magnet] won't do anything," says Bill Frank, executive director of the CompactFlash Association. "A magnet powerful enough to disturb the electrons in flash would be powerful enough to suck the iron out of your blood cells," says Frank.
The same goes for hard drives. The only magnets powerful enough to scrub data from a drive platter are laboratory degaussers or those used by government agencies to wipe bits off media. "In the real world, people are not losing data from magnets," says Bill Rudock, a tech-support engineer with hard-drive maker Seagate. "In every disk," notes Rudock, "there's one heck of a magnet that swings the head."
Want to erase data from a hard drive you plan to toss? Don't bother with a magnet. Overwrite the data that is stored on the media instead. For flash, fill up the drive with anything, like pictures of your beloved dachshund. Unlike with magnetic media, from which experts can usually recover at least some overwritten data, once new data is written to flash media, the old data is gone forever. To overwrite the contents of a hard drive, try Eraser from Heidi Computers.

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I don't know if you've ever seen the inside of an HDD but they actually have Magents inside... I usually take old, failed, HDD's apart just to get at the Magnets as they are quite quite strong.
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Jeph, that desk looks like you made it out of fat people.

haha i would post my monitor pictures here ... but i am afraid that the laugh's that u will have might kill ya
if it harms your brain to watch very bad computers .. then look away .. really look away .. i am not responsible for any harms this will cause ... you have been warned !!!

Well I bought myself a birthday present...a new Samsung P2370 23" LCD
-P2370

Nice I could never go back to a smaller screen now it makes such a difference being able to have two windows open side by side with apps.