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Date: 06 July 2009 08:10:30
On Saturday, our car was broken into. We don't know how - the police think that we must have left a door open - although I don't think that we did - I certainly locked the car.
Two games consoles (a Nintendo DS Lite, and a DSi), several games, and a case were taken. Also, as I discovered later, money had been taken from my wallet. The most significant loss wasn't the actual goods, which can be replaced, and may be covered by insurance, but over a year of invested effort stored in the games which have gone. Son, along with his friends, spends much of his time playing Pokemon games - training and developing the characters within the games. As an IT professional, I've been for a while uncomfortable, knowing that valuable data was being stored, and that there was no way of backing it up. What happened this weekend, admittedly, I didn't anticipate (although, strangely, I felt on Saturday that something bad was going to happen) ...