What about some sort of shared cost advertising?  I've thought about getting together with others to share the cost of a mailer.  Does direct mail work?  I will pay attention to a postcard in the mail.  Does anyone else or is that a waste of money?

BTW - My photography site has nothing to with a business or making money.  I love photography and just thought it would be fun to run a site like that.  Unfortunately I have spread myself pretty thin right now and do not have time to promote the site much.

Anyone come from the Rancho Murieta area to downtown.  With these gas prices I would love to share some costs.

Assuming you shop at Raley's/Bel Air enough you can increase your stimulus checks by 10%.

Raley’s, Bel Air and Nob Hill Foods customers who bring their economic stimulus checks in will be able to add additional dollars to their food budgets. Each of the company’s 125 stores will convert stimulus checks to gift cards and add 10% more, giving customers more dollars for household spending.

The service runs May 9 through July 31, and will allow shoppers who bring in stimulus checks in amounts up to $1,800 to convert those checks to gift cards and gain the 10% bonus, without a service fee. For example, a Stimulus Check in the amount of $300 would be converted to a Raley's gift card in the amount of $330. The gift cards do not have an expiration date.

http://www.raleys.com/features/001.jsp?featureid=843203

No ads.  It's just dial-up though, no email and no support. 

Anyone still on dial-up?  You can now get free dial-up internet in CA.

http://www.fastfreedialup.com/

There are access numbers for most of the state.

http://www.fastfreedialup.com/index-1.html

How close do you want to be to his work?  You do or don't have a car to get to Arden and Howe?

I sent a note to the editor at the Bee, but I did not get a response other that her "out of offcie" reply.

The salary database is very insecure.  I was able to pull every record in their database without using names.  There are 365,571 records in the database.  If I could do then a lot of scammers will be able to just download every record in the database and do with it as they please.

Thanks Eric.  I think the google ads are more what I am looking for anyway

I am starting a new photography site and thought I would through it out to the member of SacForums.

http://www.idigphotography.com

I need to try it out one day just to see, but I think it sticks to the inside of your window.

Have you noticed the new parking meters in Sacramento? The city is actually calling them Pay and Display Stations. The city of Sacramento is installing 300 of these machines. Here is how they work. You pull into a metered parking spot then find the closest pay station. You insert your credit card or coins and push the green button to print your receipt. You then peel your receipt and stick it to your curb side window. All done. You can even park at any other metered spot in the city if your time has not run out.

It sounds like a pretty cool system, but I have yet to try it out. I grabbed a few shots so you can see the pay stations and what they look like. Happy parking!

congrats Eric!! 

There is a proper way to develop and many agencies including the state attorney general have chimmed in and said the developers in Rancho Murieta are not developing according to current laws.

Do you care about sprawl in the greater Sacramento area?  We need more infill projects, not large developments outside of urban areas.  Especially when those areas do not have the infrastructure to support the growth.  Rancho Murieta is one such area.  For those that are not familiar with Rancho Murieta, it is located about 25 miles from downtown up Jackson Highway.  Developers want to build thousands of new homes in Rancho Murieta.  In addition to destroying the topography and cutting down thousands of oak these news homes will increase sprawl in Sacramento.  Rancho Murieta does not have large employers and almost all working adult in Rancho Murieta must drive a 20+ miles to get to their jobs.  We do not need thousands of more people adding to our already congested roads. 

The issues surrounding development are vast and stretch far beyond the sprawl issue.  There was recent article in the Sacramento News and Review about the history of the fight in Rancho Murieta.  The CA Department of Real Estate, the US Environmental Protection Agency, the US Fish and Wildlife Service, CalTrans, and State Attorney General have all issued opinions specific to this development that side with residents that want limited rural growth.   

Even with all of the overwhelming evidence against developing this area the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors may still vote to approve it.  Only one supervisor Don Nottoli actually represents the Rancho Murieta area.  The other supervisors do not care because Rancho Murieta does not represent their voting block and the developers are very large campaign contributors.  That is where you can help.  We need people to write letters that do not support uncontrolled growth in Rancho Murieta, especially without a new master plan (the current one is 25 years old).  The only thing that combat the influence of  campaign contributions is voters in the supervisor own district.  Please take the time to write a brief letter to your supervisor and let them know that one of their voters does not approve of sprawl.  Here is a map of the districts.  Below is the contact information for the supervisors.  Also if you can forward any letters to info@preservemurieta.org so we can keep track that would be greatly appreciated.

Roger Dickinson - District 1
700 H Street, Suite 2450
Sacramento CA 95814
dickinsonr@saccounty.net

Jimmie R. Yee - District 2
700 H Street, Suite 2450
Sacramento CA 95814
jyee@saccounty.net
               
Susan Peters - District 3
700 H Street, Suite 2450
Sacramento CA 95814
susanpeters@saccounty.net

Roberta MacGlashan - District 4
700 H Street, Suite 2450
Sacramento CA 95814
macglashanr@saccounty.net

Thank you, PreserveMurieta.org

So the Kings stink this year.  Is the coach gone or will he stay.  Will they improve next year or are we stuck with a sub-par team?