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01

Sep

Come to the edge,” he said.
They said, “We are afraid.”
“Come to the edge,” he said.
He pushed them and they flew.
Guillaume Appollinaire

31

Aug

A fruit vendor waited for customers during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

A fruit vendor waited for customers during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

30

Aug

My Last Full Week of Summer Vacation

Yo,

It’s awhile since I’ve posted. My summer vacation has been great! I know that I’ll look back at my time in Wayzata with great memories. This summer is also marks a slew of new beginnings for my family that have rekindled our inner spirits.

This Fall, I’ll be moving away from my home state to attend college and my brothers will be advancing to high school. It’s honestly difficult to believe that the moment I’ve been so eagerly awaiting is just days away. And, in the same respect, it’s difficult to believe that my brothers will soon walk the halls I once had the honor to walk at Wayzata High School. I’m eager for these changes and advancement.

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As for this blog, after reading The Four Hour Workweek, I figured that I could batch my blogging to ensure that content is published daily. Because I follow a pattern with this blog, see panel on upper left, and because I’m limited to only a few sentences with my other blog, I’ve finally decided to use Posterous, where you’ll find nothing but randomness as I begin to play around with this newfound sandbox. However, due to its amazing ablility to foward content to all of my other social networks, I might actually use it to simplify my social media. In that case, I’ll find another sandbox to blast my randomness.

In addition to publishing daily on this blog, my other blog, and my Posterous, I’ve also setup up a seperate and public Twitter account where I’ll setup automated links for my social networks (such as my Words of Wisdom blog). It’s rather unfortunate that I must maintain an elevated level of privacy with my social networks, but it is quite necessary.

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If you got this far, thank you! I look forward to maintaining my blogs. In the near future, you’ll be able to read my Words of Wisdom via e-mail thanks to MailChimp and shortly thereafter, you’ll be up-to-the-moment with text messages from the Words of Wisdom blog.

Peace is love,

Brandon Layland
laylandblog at gmail.com

17

Jun

Hunch: Decision-Making Website

Hunch is a consumer web application looking to help users make up their minds.

16

Jun

The demands and the amount of work that it takes to put something like [Facebook] into place, it’s just so much that if you weren’t completely into what you were doing and you didn’t think it was an important thing, then it would be irrational to spend that much time on it.
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, is the youngest recorded billionaire, at the age of 23 he has accomplished more monetarily than 99.9% of what most people will accomplish in a life time.

13

Jun

Facebook gets down to business.

12

Jun

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David Rush
Shooting Star (feat. LAFAO, Pitbull, and Kevin Rudolf)
Shooting Star (feat. LAFAO, Pitbull, and Kevin Rudolf)


Shooting Star (feat. LAFAO, Pitbull, and Kevin Rudolf) - David Rush

10

Jun

Forbes #785: Mark Zuckerberg

Tech’s newest golden boy founded addictive social networking site Facebook in February 2004 from his Harvard dorm room.Left school for Silicon Valley later that year; scored initial $500,000 investment from PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel.

09

Jun

Our success has really been based on partnerships from the very beginning.
Bill Gates on Microsoft Corporation.

08

Jun

Microsoft Bing! Bing helps customers use search to make better decisions, focusing initially on four key user tasks and related areas: making a purchase, planning a trip, researching a health condition, or finding a local business.

Microsoft Bing! Bing helps customers use search to make better decisions, focusing initially on four key user tasks and related areas: making a purchase, planning a trip, researching a health condition, or finding a local business.