Well in general you are right about ESD. Nevertheless, personally I believe ESD is over rated. I mean come on, esd floor? ESD shoes? Thats ridicolous. Unless you work in such environment and your boss requires you to do so. When working with devices such as NIC (Network Interface Card), Motherboard, cpu...the internal devices of the pc; you have to ground yourself, by simply touching the metal part of the case. I usually use power supply to ground myself. In all my experience of building pc's I never wasted money on ESD wristStrap or anything like that. If you careful enough, you wont fry any of your devices. By the way, if you do work with components such as nic, cpu etc etc, any electronic devices with their boards exposed and unprotected, do yourself a favor dont work with it on the carpet.

On the side note, for those who still dont know what ESD is. Here is a simple explanation. You know when u shake someone hand? At times you shock the other person with a little electricity or they shock you? Well to humans it's not dangerous, but it holds enough electricity to fry your internal pc components. STATIC ELECTRICITY IS A PC COMPONENTS KILLER. So be careful out there . Nevertheless, nice post Vanman. Oh, and "ESD - Electro Sensitive Devices" ? never heard of that before. ESD - Electro Static Discharge. <-- the definition.