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Doing the Laptop Drive of Shame
netbuzz writes "If you bring your work computer home with any regularity, chances are good that you've done the Laptop Drive of Shame. (Oh, c'mon, admit it.) It's happening more than ever ... and costing more than ever, too, what with the price of gas and all." I'll spoil it for you — they mean leaving your laptop at home. Yay, Monday news cycle.
This is the first time I wish I had been rickrolled instead of getting that awful article.
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Slow news day ... or no news day?
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I don't live that far away from work, so if I ever forget my laptop it's not too much of a trek. To be honest I'm more likely to "forget" my pass and then I have to go and temporary one from the lovely girls in premises (I'm not stupid you know).
Seriously though, I usually just put my laptop bag, with the laptop inside it (the most important bit) across my front door so that I have to pick it up to open the door. Obviously this only works if you're the first person out the door in the morning...
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Of course not, silly. It's an Apple store. Now, had you said naked man...
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
Well, it would be easier to lug that damned thing without the desk. Cut the chain.
Being an old and proud Slashdotter, I'd gone many months with R'ing TFA, and somehow I picked this morning to try it the other way.
Yay me.
Here's looking forward to another long stretch of blissful ignorance.
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
"it's where I put my phone, wallet, diary, car keys and sunglasses"
I think the word you're looking for here isn't "brief case," it's "purse."
Further, its just a warmed over I forgot my insert, I have to go back home:
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong fix.
Imagine a 20 minute commute, and I didn't even notice I was missing my pants. Hell, neither did the other people on the bus. (It was the Bay Area.)
And people ask me, why did you hate living in the Bay Area so much?
God invented whiskey so the Irish would not rule the world.
I once had to do a software install on an ice-breaker. I had to fly out to the east coast, catch a twin-otter from a Canadian Forces base north to middle-of-nowhere-ville, then get flown by helicopter out to do an at sea landing on the ship.
After I arrived I discovered I had left one of the install discs on my desk at work.
Life is like a web application. Sometime you need cookies just to get by.
Eh, but four million US is what, like 300 GBP these days? You can buy an iPhone for that!
What an interesting concept.
Some lucky IT folks get a desktop and a laptop issued by the company, they also get a company issued wireless air card for computing while on the commute.
But wait there's more! You'll also get easy web based remote access to email. And as a bonus, you'll also receive VPN, and Citrix web access, so you can do work from any computer ... So for those of you who have a computer in almost every room at home, the only easy way to get away from work, is to go somewhere outside!
Wait!!! ... That's covered too! ... Let's not forget about the blackberry, the lock on your electronic leg irons!
We noticed, but anyone who rides a bus knows better than to talk to the person not wearing pants.