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Actually, the iBook was just sitting out in the open on top of a stack of papers, with a teacup perched over the Apple logo on the lid.
When my daughter returned to find the place partly ransacked, she was amazed to discover that the iBook was still there just as she had left at that morning. She theorizes that the scumbags who broke in must not have noticed the iBook in the stack of white papers. Gotta love it.
The criminal oversight was also something of a providential miracle. For months I've been nagging her to back up her stuff. She has a USB flash drive that she uses to move current projects between computers, but had never done a global backup of most of her three in one half years of archived University papers and research, and her iBook's hard drive also contained the only copies of her photos from her scholarship program sojourn in Germany last summer.
The robbery was a wakeup call, and she wasted no time after that doing a full backup to the gargantuan hard drive of my brother-in-law's G5 iMac. I also suggested that she start doing frequent incremental backups to CD. Perhaps she now will.
I've always bemused by people who will tell you with one breath that their whole life is stored on their hard drive, and in the next that they just don't have the time to do regular backups. Robbery isn't the only data loss hazard. Hard drives can pack it in with little or no warning. If you can't afford to lose data, backup regularly and often. Personally, I prefer an external FireWire or USB 2 hard drive as the most convenient and versatile backup medium. Of course, if you have a recent iPod with a big hard drive it can also serve as a convenient backup device.
But whatever, back up your stuff.
Charles W. Moore
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