Somewhat surprisingly, my hometown Sacramento was recently included on a new Yahoo! Finance list of ten Best Cities to Live, Work and Play in the U.S. “Our approach this year to picking the ten best cities in which to live and work was simple: Look for places with strong economies and abundant jobs, then demand reasonable living costs and plenty [...]

For those of you who haven’t heard yet, I broke a metacarpal on my right hand over the Labor Day Weekend, so I’ve been having a tough time keeping up with the blogs, with my freelance coding, and my job search. Since the doc put me in a half cast, I only have about one useful finger on my dominant [...]

I recently connected with a really nice gentleman named Paul Dickey here at Sac State. From what I understand, Paul worked for E*Trade as an internal auditor and worked his way up for a while. Now he’s taking time off for school, and he’s getting really involved as VP for the campus chapter of the Financial Management Association and also [...]

So, it worked out, and the College of Business was invited to a special reception with Warren Buffett at his new RC Willey store in Rocklin. My boss was awesome enough to set aside a ticket for me, so I got to rub shoulders with some of Sacramento’s big wigs at lunch at PF Chang’s in Roseville–Chris Cady (Pulte Homes), [...]