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Hosting Moved to BNSI

Published by Waldo Jaquith on September 29, 2005 in Site News. 15 Comments

I’ve long hosted cvillenews.com on an old Linux server connected to the internet via DSL. It moved with me to Blacksburg in 2003, and then back to C’ville earlier this year. When my power goes out, the site goes down. When I download something big, the site gets slow. It’s a pain, but it’s free.

No longer. cvillenews.com has gone all professional.

Colin Learmonth, of BNSI, e-mailed me last week and offered to host the site, gratis. BNSI is where I’ve long sent my clients to have their sites hosted, so I jumped at the chance. I just now finished moving the site over, and I’ve somehow managed to avoid screwing it up. Colin didn’t ask for it, but I’ll make up a little “Hosted by BNSI” button to display on the front page somewhere, because I appreciate his generosity and, frankly, I’m proud to have a site of my own hosted by BNSI.

It’s 100% uptime and fast page loads from here on out.

Now They’ll Experience Handcuffs

Published by Waldo Jaquith on September 29, 2005 in Meta News. 8 Comments

I totally love WINA’s phrasing in this story:

City Police say two 17-year old boys experienced stab wounds at around 7:45 p.m. in the 800 block of Orangedale Avenue. One teen had a stab wound in his neck, and the other was cut in the torso area.

They “experienced stab wounds.” We find out in the next sentence that they experienced them firsthand, having received them on their own personal bodies in order to better experience them with more clositude.

I’m not trying to pick on you, WINA. This was just my first laugh of the day and I wanted to share.

Commute Distances to C’ville

Published by Waldo Jaquith on September 28, 2005 in Transportation. 5 Comments

In a comment to an earlier discussion, cvillenews.com member UVA08 provided a link to a totally cool webpage. The Bureau of Economic Analysis uses census data to determine how far people drive to get to work, and has a page of data about Charlottesville. 1,138 people commute from Buckingham. 199 from Culpeper. 14 from Rappahannock. 381 from Rockingham. 99 from Washington D.C. 28 from Montgomery, MD.

It’s amazing that anybody would commute from Montgomery County, or D.C. And many of the numbers keep increasing.

Affleck, Garner House Shopping

Published by Waldo Jaquith on September 27, 2005 in General News. 2 Comments

Ben AffleckThe tabloids are all abuzz with the news that actors Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner, his wife, are either moving to Albemarle or looking to move to Albemarle, depending on which story you believe. We have no shortage of famous people living in the area, but we’ve never had the sort of people that are followed around by paparazzi. I think that’s for the best.

UVa Employment RSS Feed

Published by Waldo Jaquith on September 26, 2005 in Business, Site News and UVa. 3 Comments

Scanning UVa’s classified staff job listings is a pain. There’s no way to just look at recent additions. With 329 jobs listed right now, I’ve gotten tired of pawing through the list each day to find new openings.

I’ve constructed a screen-scraped UVa staff openings RSS feed. It’s updated once every 12 hours (so please don’t poll the feed every 20 minutes), and simply lists every staff opening available in Charlottesville right now. I built this for myself, but I figure any of y’all on the job hunt might find it equally useful.

Note that this is in addition to the existing WINA, Cavalier Daily, and Daily Progress RSS feeds.

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