Thanks for Reading RealCentralVA in 2013 – and Hopefully 2014
Thank you. Thank you for reading this year. Your time, your insight - on and offline - is a huge part of why I do what I do here. I'm planning some stories for 2014 - obviously a bunch of new stories but also quite…
This is a Test – A Google Plus Test
As much as anything, I'm testing Google + embedding, but also prefacing an upcoming post preliminarily titled "The Troubling Transience of the Web" But the question remains - does a poorly-proofed story diminish its credibility? (more…)
You Know You’ve Been Blogging for a Long Time When
You know you've been blogging for a long time when about a tenth of the links to which you've pointed over the past 8 years are now bad/broken ones. I installed the Broken Link Checker wordpress plugin last week and was a bit surprised at…
A Return to Basics – RealCentralVA’s monthly newsletter
I'm trying something new. I know that not everyone wants to read everything I write and post here (there's always something happening in Charlottesville's real estate market - direct and tangentially). So I'm introducing a monthly newsletter. My thoughts and rationale: - I expect to…
Many Years of Blogging
January 4, 2005 I posted my first not-so-great-post here on RealCentralVA. So very much has changed since then that I can't begin to list the significant, insignificant and surprisingly significant shifts in the real estate writing space (I was one of the first and some…
7 Years of Blogging about the Charlottesville Real Estate Market
It's been a long time since I started writing about the Charlottesville real estate market. This site has become my pensieve; it is easier to google my site for information than it is to remember what I'm trying to say (and this site has links,…
Changes at RealCentralVA
Bear with me. Changes are afoot. Suggestions, critiques, commentary welcome. Please find things that are broken and let me know. I know the search for homes page is wonky.
Re-Doing RealCentralVA.com
If I were to re-do RealCentralVA's design, what would you suggest?
RealCentralVA.com is Now More Mobile-Friendly
I have no excuse for taking this long to moblize my site. With prodding from Aera Mobile, I looked at the easy Wordpress options for making my site less of a pain to read on an Android or iPhone (and to a lesser degree, Blackberry).…
RealCentralVA was Hacked
Update 18 May 2010: Isn't this fun? I think everything is finally clean. If you're curious, this is a little bit of information about the attack and the long-term ramifications. (Hopefully, this is the last I'll have to mention; thanks to sucuri, I found that…