http://www.jeremyprivett.com/blog Business, Programming, Politics, and Life Fri, 08 May 2009 20:27:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I think it's become painfully obvious to me and everyone who actually still reads this old thing that blogging isn't working out for me. It was a nice thought, at first, but I've gotten too busy with work and other life activities to actually maintain this old thing. I've disabled ... http://www.jeremyprivett.com/blog/archives/blogging-isnt-working-out/ I'm currently holding a contest on Twitter to give away a free copy of Left 4 Dead. If you're interested in winning a copy, check out the rules. If you like this contest and would like to see more like it, give it a Digg. If the return ends up ... http://www.jeremyprivett.com/blog/archives/giving-away-a-free-copy-of-left-4-dead/ Zend has a document in their resources section for Zend Studio v6.1 that "explains" how to install the IDE as a plugin into an existing install of Eclipse. The document appears to be missing some very bits of information for the current version. Here's a list of update sites you ... http://www.jeremyprivett.com/blog/archives/installing-zend-studio-eclipse-plugin/ Dutch and I have been playing quite a lot of Soul Calibur, lately. I've got a custom character named Atrophius who I created back in November of last year when I rented the game for the first time. Atrophius is a big ninja with Siegfried's combat style. He's a pretty ... http://www.jeremyprivett.com/blog/archives/the-tower-of-souls/ I'm going to try and start getting back into the swing of writing by writing new development articles to be published here on my blog. This entry is basically a call for ideas. If there's any topic that you'd like to see me cover, let me know here! Put a comment ... http://www.jeremyprivett.com/blog/archives/development-articles/ Obviously, when you move to a new location, one of the decently high priorities is figuring out transportation. Since I've been staying with Dutch, I really haven't had to be too concerned about getting around. We're mostly either hanging out at the house or at work. I've known for a while ... http://www.jeremyprivett.com/blog/archives/new-car/ I’ve upgraded WordPress to the latest version. Since the version I was using previously was a little on the old side, my theme pretty much bought it. I like the one I have setup now, but it decided to place my categories in the header. This brought on some well-needed ... http://www.jeremyprivett.com/blog/archives/blog-maintenance/ It's been a long time, I know. At the risk of giving myself nothing to blog about for another month, I'm going to do a quick catch up of everything that's been going on lately. At the beginning of October, I got a chance to go visit Ruzena again. As always, ... http://www.jeremyprivett.com/blog/archives/lets-play-catch-up-and-ramble/ Since I really don't have anything interesting to blog about, at the moment, here's a quickie about my music tastes which is sure to not be interesting to most of you. I'm an avid user of Pandora. I love the service and I've been a premium subscriber since 2006. I have ... http://www.jeremyprivett.com/blog/archives/three-songs-that-made-me-stop-and-listen/ I'm sure a lot of you will hear just Scott's side of the story and think badly of me for what happened. I'm here to tell you that I don't care if you think badly of me. Life will go on. Things will get resolved, one way or another. I abruptly ... http://www.jeremyprivett.com/blog/archives/believe-whatever-you-want/