I sub-loaned my company laptop to my boss. He went to Shepparton this week, while I stayed in Melbourne.
During this morning’s break, I noticed I had a few missed calls from Jamie. I called him back and he told me that during the week, someone had broken into Paul’s car and taken the laptop.
“I wanted to call and let you know. Did you have anything important on it?”
“Hmm… It had all my personal emails on it, which is a bit of a worry. But there’s nothing that can’t be replaced.”
Although the laptop is password protected, someone keen could probably extract my emails from the hard disk.
On the train home, I noticed all the people with white earphones — iPod owners or iPod owner-tryhards, as I’ve discussed before on this blog. Then I remembered: I had left my own white earphones in the front pocket of the laptop bag. Damn. Forty dollars, gone.
I think the company’s insurance would cover it. Surely, so.
At least it wasn’t my car window that got smashed.
hahah….for a moment i was appalled at ur lack of..intense fury…at the loss of a laptop. only did i realise after a very short moment that it was your COMPANY laptop!!!
luckily it’s not ur laptop, anyway.
And luckily you did not lose ur ipod, just the earphones.
Thank God!
Hahaha… Lack of intense fury, I like that. Hahaha…
I’d like to say that I don’t have an iPod. I do, however, have (did have) white earphones, which makes me appear to be an iPod tryhard.
I find the most annoying thing about losing a computer isn’t losing your data; it’s losing the hundreds of small customisations you made to the machine to make it usable. But then, not everyone likes to tweak everything.
On a side note, many companies have policies on using encrypted filesystems which are practically uncrackable to all but government entities. I guess the possibility of something like this happening is one of the reasons why.
Damn that sux, tia