Comments on: Letter to a Thief

By: The Newly Rich » Blog Archive » Outsourced Wednesdays: Drywall Patch and Paint

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:24:36 +0000

[...] disappearing TV left a few marks and dings in the wall, not to mention the sizable hole I carved out to run the [...]

By: Rex Reed

Rex Reed — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:02:01 +0000

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.

By: Working Rachel

Working Rachel — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 01:35:17 +0000

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.

By: Jed

Jed — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 21:43:37 +0000

@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

By: Jed

Jed — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 21:40:07 +0000

@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?

By: A. Nony Mouse

A. Nony Mouse — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 21:04:05 +0000

Also, please note that I applied the word to the blog and not a single post.

HANL

By: A. Nony Mouse

A. Nony Mouse — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 21:03:28 +0000

Read the next word in your cited wiki entry.

By: Carrie Lauth

Carrie Lauth — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 20:40:17 +0000

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

By: Jed

Jed — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 18:36:37 +0000

@Nony- Not sure I follow you. Smarmy? Nothing in this post is "falsely earnest."

By: A. Nony Mouse

A. Nony Mouse — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 18:28:15 +0000

When I found myself thinking, “gee, that’s nice” I knew it was time to unsub from this incredibly smarmy blog.

By: Lori

Lori — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:41:21 +0000

so sorry :^(

By: Laura

Laura — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:16:56 +0000

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.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:54:07 +0000

That’s sucks man! I hope they catch the guy. I can shout out a +1 on Undercover though. Great program, and cheap too!

By: Jared Goralnick

Jared Goralnick — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 04:13:30 +0000

Some things just aren’t right. I’m sorry, Jed.

I hope they somehow find their back into your home.

Take care.