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It's highly unlikely that a person would have a self-generated electrical field greatly different from the general population. It IS possible that a person could accumulate greater than normal amounts of static electricity due to the shoes they wear, flooring they walk on, low humidity, and how often they discharge normally accumulated static electricity.
If you are consistantly encountering unexplained computer damage, try using an electrostatic grounding mat at your computer station.
Handling certain material like plastics without being grounded, dragging your feet on carpet, removing laundry from the dryer, or certain other activities, can generate enough static to arc an inch or two, and cause considerable discomfort. I've seen the hoist cable on a helo arc about a foot as it discharged all the static generated from the main rotor cutting through the air.
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“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." John Stuart Mill
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