So I walked back into the office last Monday and noticed my laptop was not where it should be. Since both my laptops (the brand new one and the old one from which I was moving some old data) had been stolen last November from my car, I thought somebody was making a bad joke. Well, I was wrong: somebody apparently walked into the office while we were having lunch just in the room next to where my laptop was and it got stolen!
I had a look at some images from the security cameras in the building and it showed a guys coming out of the elevator with a big box in his hands; a box that previously has been standing in our office. So there you have it; somebody just walks into your office and grabs your laptop, it’s unbelievable.
The stupid $#*($#*(# made one slight mistake though 
. He lost a receipt from the Cash Converters (some kind of a pawnshop) that had all his personal on it (including registration number of his passport, his address, birthdate, et cetera). The police did some investigation and as it turned out, they know who the guy is and have already paid him a visit. Unfortunately he wasn’t home, so they are on the lookout.
It was quite a coincidence that a brand new laptop had just arrived in the morning and although it wasn’t for me, but for my colleague Bram, I kindly asked him to hand it over to me for a while and I can assure you, he wasn’t happy… And there I was, spending hours and hours re-installing everything on my laptop again. It’s an ThinkPad T60, DualCore, which is kind of nice, but to be honest, ThinkPads aren’t what they used to be since Lenovo took over from IBM. The whole thing isn’t that robust anymore and to put in extra memory you have to take the whole thing apart instead of just opening a small lid on the back. I’m still not sure, but I think they also changed the power inlet, which is one thing I always bought IBM ThinkPads for.
Well, at least it’s fast….
