http://stein.everybody.org/journal Random thoughts; you know... the usual Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:11:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I just noticed this email from my Chase credit card: Dear JEREMY STEIN: The Year-End Summary for your credit card ending in 1234 is now online and ready for review. Your 2009 Year-End Summary is a valuable resource that's available to Chase OnlineSM customers for FREE! Your personalized summary is an easy and ... http://stein.everybody.org/journal/posts/from-chase-for-free/ Here is part of a telephone conversation with a member of our ITS support staff while he was having me test an issue with Citrix. I was trying to make small talk about the lack of single sign-on. [It's not funny when you have to explain it, but it's even ... http://stein.everybody.org/journal/posts/single-sign-on/ I've got a slogan for this site: Abandoned no. Interesting yes. Does that make you want to bookmark this site or what! No, of course not. You probably hadn't considered the possibility that I'd abandoned this site until you saw me deny it. If I really want a slogan for ... http://stein.everybody.org/journal/posts/abandoned-no-interesting-yes/ Judges can put people in jail for contempt of court. Reporter Judith Plame was jailed for refusing to reveal a source to a grand jury. People are usually jailed or threatened with jail for less noble causes than she. H. Beatty Chadwick was put in jail for contempt because ... http://stein.everybody.org/journal/posts/jailed-14-years-for-contempt/ I'm not a good student of history or of global politics, but it did occur to me that the situation in Georgia is awfully similar to that of the infamous Munich Agreement. Will Ossetia be just Russia's first step to taking all of Georgia while the West is too ... http://stein.everybody.org/journal/posts/georgia-in-2008-czechoslovakia-in-1938/ Part of my jog route takes me down Clover Street along the park. It's a major road, and the frogs from the pond don't stand a chance. It's like Frogger on the impossible level. I often jog around their little corpses. I assumed that crows and ants cleaned ... http://stein.everybody.org/journal/posts/frogger-game-over/ Hello, Mr. Stein. My name is Susan. I'm calling on behalf of the Cancer Fund of America Support Services. We give aid to the ill and needy and provide support and services to cancer patients who can't afford treatment. May I confirm your address to send ... http://stein.everybody.org/journal/posts/telemarketer-vs-google/ In reference to the public reaction to the FLDS raid: http://stein.everybody.org/journal/posts/my-first-political-cartoon/ I'm not allowed to tell you how slow SQL Server is. Seriously. To install Visual C# Express, I had to agree to the following: SQL SERVER BENCHMARK TESTINGYou must obtain Microsoft’s prior written approval to disclose to a third party the results of any benchmark test of the SQL Server software that accompanies ... http://stein.everybody.org/journal/posts/sql-server-performance-benchmarks/ I believe democracy is the best form of government. It's practically self-evident, isn't it? We wouldn't want to be godless Communists, would we? I finally read The Republic and was amused to hear Plato disparage democracy: SOCRATES: See too, I said, the forgiving spirit of democracy, and the "don't ... http://stein.everybody.org/journal/posts/know-why-you-believe/