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For the love of all that is good and pure, stop sending me calendars. This includes full size, mini, single page, magnetic, and any other variation you can think of. I I wanted a calendar on my wall/refrigerator, I’d buy one with scantily clad women and not one with flowers, or your damn picture on every page.

In the last 30 days, I have received 8 calendars (and a family photo) from various companies I have done business with at some point in my almost four decades of life.  I can’t help but think of how big a waste of your money and time, the post offices efforts, and the trees used to give me a calendar I ultimately throw in the recycle bin or reluctantly add to my ever growing super-powered magnet.

Just stop sending them to me.

Apparently, every 53 seconds a laptop is stolen and in 97% of the cases, they are never found.  That’s some scary stats.  I am a laptop owner and if my laptop was stolen, I’d lose a lot of compromising data, mostly in the return of tax documents and financial information.  I could hope that the thief wouldn’t be interesting in my personal data, but that’s not something I can rely on.  That’s why I invested in PGP’s Whole Disk Encryption.  Now if my laptop is stolen, even if the pull the hard drive and put it in another machine, they still have to get past the encryption.  I don’t expect to get my laptop back, but I do expect my data to stay secure.