March 17, 2003

Who would do such a thing?

So I got a laptop at work... correction, I had a laptop at work...

It wasn't very secure in it's little docking station so I kept it locked in a desk drawer with the key hidden under a calendar.

When I came in this morning, the key was in the lock and my laptop was gone. Of course, I immediately checked with Jason, because moving my computer or hiding it is a prank he might pull - but he was out on Friday and didn't come in until 10am. My computer was, indeed, stolen.

Hallmark should make a card, "Sorry for your loss of data." I lost all my work-related emails, my gigs of MP3s, and a ton of documents, all stored locally. My company was using a dubious back-up software, but they recently dropped the program - so there's a slim chance I might get some of my data back, but probably not all of it.

My old pre-laptop machine was just sitting by my desk. They didn't take that. I would have been able to get my stuff back from that, but the tech people wiped the drive clean on Friday - a total erase of OS and everything. What timing!

Tomorrow they might give me a new laptop, but today, I'm on someone else's machine. This is a harsh way to learn to take my desk keys home with me.