News

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.

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.)

Now that I've told everyone in Alaska that needed to know the news, I can announce here that I'll be moving back to the Lower-48 in September, Colorado, specifically.

I've been very busy lately, and haven't taken the time to write any blog posts in a few weeks. The reason for my busy-ness is that I've created a new computer programming company in Alaska, Valley Programming.

Wow, if this story is true, it sure seems illegal. Bristol Palin is reported to have accepted a $262,500 salary from a "non-profit" organization which gave away only $35,000 to charities. Here's a link to the story.

While March 27th marks the date of the 1964 Alaska earthquake, today, March 28th, is being celebrated as Seward's Day in Alaska, the day the area now known as Alaska was purchased by the United States. (Technically Alaska was purchased by the U.S. on March 30, 1867, from Russia, but I assume it's celebrated on a Monday to make things easier for everyone, not to mention the whole three-day weekend thing.)