freeing a stuck cd/dvd from your macbook

This happened to a friend of mine yesterday. I read her cry for help on facebook. She had been burning dvds, and one just refused to eject, and her macbook wouldn't mount it.

Several other people had already offered such helpful advice as: 'pray', 'make an appointment with the genius bar' and 'first, find a tiny screwdriver...'

Here is the simple remedy: restart your laptop. As soon as the apple appears, repeatedly press the eject button, holding for about a second at a time. The disk should eject.