I want to tell you about computrace!  As you know from my last letter, I'm now the proud owner of a laptop.  Don't wow too much.  I bought it from Tigerdirect.com as a lease return refurbish.  It doesn't do USB, so we have to find ways around that shortcoming.
    Anyway, back to computrace (That's <www.computrace.com>)  It's a computer tracing company!  You can read the website as well as I can, but they claim a 98% recovery rate.  What happens is a hidden program on your computer, every time the laptop is used on the internet, calls computrace and says, "Psst.  I'm over here!  At this ISP!",  and, if you've reported it as stolen, to both the cops and Computrace, it usually doesn't take too long to find it!  $49 per year!  And frequently, along with the laptop, other items stolen at the same time are recovered too!  
     Anyway, I bought it - now I can't wait to have my laptop stolen, to see how fast I get it back!:-)