It's not always Better Late than Never

The old saying 'Better late than never' really is not always true and I got an example this past week. Back in September I made a purchase from Newegg, and as it turns out at that time Newegg had been successfully attacked so my payment information was almost certainly compromised. I learned about this by seeing a news piece on it, and then wrote my own covering it. What I did not get though was any notification from Newegg. In fact, the only notification I had ever seen was a post on Twitter by Newegg, because I looked for it.
After I replaced the likely-compromised credit card, I actually contacted Newegg, because I was rather unhappy about the situation. The response I got was that all those who might have been affected "would have received an email from [Newegg] explaining what happened." Well, this past week I got a letter, as in physical mail, from Newegg informing me of the attack Newegg discovered two months prior and one month after an investigation by Newegg into what was likely compromised. Literally months later Newegg finally informed me, which makes you wonder what might have happened if I had not learned of the attack on my own and acted on my own?
As it was, I was less interested in shopping at Newegg, but now that I get this, potentially well later than it would have been most useful. My displeasure with Newegg is even greater now.

Back to Work, Sort of

After finishing some heavily-focused work a few weeks ago, I was able to take a nice break, doing work with less focus, but that's over now. I'm back to work on recordings, am nearly done with a sizeable article, and have a review to work on too. And all of this is work I enjoy doing. It is actually kind of funny to think about this when I'm applying for jobs, that in my chronic unemployment I am probably doing as much as some people in their careers, and perhaps more than some others too, but despite that, I'm unemployed. It's weird (and sad/frustrating/disappointing) how the world can work like that, but then it hardly matters. As weird as the world can be, what matters is what we do in it.