Letter to a Thief
Tech Tips April 1st, 2008Dear person that broke into my apartment this afternoon-
I won’t miss the TV much, but I don’t think you understand the demons you have unleashed by hauling off my 24-inch iMac (that thing you probably thought was a huge iPod) and the external hard drive (to which you forgot the power cord).
I’ll make you a deal: bring me back that hard drive and we’ll call it even, okay? There are thousands of photos and hours of video footage from the first two years of my daughter’s life on there. They won’t mean anything to you, but they mean everything to my wife.
Regards,
-Jed
p.s. thanks for at least leaving my guitar.
Thank you Bandwagon. Thank you Flickr (I wish we used you more). And a future thank you to Undercover.
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Some things just aren’t right. I’m sorry, Jed.
I hope they somehow find their back into your home.
Take care.
That’s sucks man! I hope they catch the guy. I can shout out a +1 on Undercover though. Great program, and cheap too!
Wow I’m really sorry to hear that. Another apartment that I know of in wicker park just got robbed last week, in the middle of the day. (Uuuh you don’t live in potomac do you?)
This cements my decision to use Mozy, what happened to you is exactly what I’m afraid of for backing up locally, that someone would break in and steal the backup.
so sorry :^(
When I found myself thinking, “gee, that’s nice” I knew it was time to unsub from this incredibly smarmy blog.
@Nony-
Not sure I follow you. Smarmy? Nothing in this post is “falsely earnest.”
Tell me you had your files backed up online or somewhere else. I use Mozy.com (http://www.carrielauth.com/mozy.html if you like) They have a no cost option for the average user.
That stinks
Read the next word in your cited wiki entry.
Also, please note that I applied the word to the blog and not a single post.
HANL
@Nony-
Not sure why you ever subscribed in the first place- this blog has never purported to be anything but a peek into our experiences taking a different approach to work, time, and money. There are millions of other blogs out there- by all means, don’t clog your RSS reader with content from authors you find to be “irritatingly pleased with oneself.”
Still, I’m curious as to why this post in particular got you all in a knot? Was there something overly “smug” about my reaction to being burglarized?
@Carrie-
Yes, fortunately most of it is either online and/or on my work laptop. But not all of it. As only Murphy’s law can dictate, I had just finished a bunch of file shuffling and consolidating last week, and had yet to create a complete clone. Except of course to the external hard drive
At first I thought this was an April Fool’s joke, but it doesn’t look like it. My condolences! It’s hideous to lose all your electronic possessions.
Man, that royally sucks. You have my virtual condolences. Like others, I use Mozy, which does a very frequent (sometimes hourly) backup to the network “ether”. While it would totally suck to have stuff stolen, at least they can’t take my data away from me.
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