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I just realized that I completely converted my old website, devdaily.com, to alvinalexander.com, without saying anything here. Since that's where I am most days, I thought I should mention it.

Here are a few images of what my new website looks like:

Just click that image to be teleported over to my new alvinalexander.com website.

Lately I've been debating about what to do to celebrate a "big" birthday this spring. While my friends and family have some pretty good ideas, such as going to Vegas, I keep thinking about going back to Alaska. Despite what the sign in this photo says, you can find some excellent food in Seward, Alaska:

I've started watching the tv show Flying Wild Alaska during the last few weeks, and I created the video at the link below to show some of my friends what it's like to take off and land in a small airplane during high wind conditions, which, in Alaska, is fairly often. That's all I'll say about it. Check out the video:

• Flying Wild Alaska - "Crabbing" (takeoffs and landings)

Do you live in Homer or Seward, Alaska? If so, would you like to adopt me for 3-4 months? :)

How about Juneau?

Ketchikan?

Haines?

June 1, 2012: I'm launching my new, nonprofit business today. I've created the Zen Foundation to fulfill the following mission:

"The Zen Foundation will freely distribute classic Zen books to libraries, schools, healthcare facilities, and other locations where people can discover Zen."

I'm not back in Alaska yet, but in the meantime, I've just published my second book.

"You want me to do what? A Survival Guide for New Consultants" is now available for the Amazon Kindle reader for just $2.99:

If you haven't seen my announcements on Twitter, my new eBook, How I Sold My Business: A Personal Diary, is free this weekend (March 10-11) on Amazon.com. I've already written about it, so I won't say any more here, other than giving you this link to the book:

March 5, 2012: It's time for a party. Besides the Iditarod starting yesterday, and today being a sister's birthday, I just released my first book, "How I Sold My Business: A Personal Diary." As the name implies, the book tells the story of how I sold my small computer programming company, in a diary format.

The book is currently available as an eBook for the Amazon Kindle. If all goes well it will soon be available at Barnes & Noble and the Apple iBookstore.

Just a quick note here today that I have moved to Colorado, and I'm currently in the process of establishing my company in Colorado as well. For more information on that, see my Valley Programming (Boulder, Colorado) website.

(Fortunately for me, the area around Boulder is known as the "Boulder valley", so I don't have to change the name of my programming business.)

I'm in a hurry today, trying to figure out how to pack everything in my car so I can get on the road. But I wanted to take a few moments to note two things.