Waking up early, twitter and #5amclub

rooster200Oh, the beauty of waking up early in the morning.  There is something awesome about getting up early before the sun rises to plan the day ahead, exercise, read, write a blog post, whatever.  This is my personal account as to why waking up early is a very good thing.  This is not a “how to” post, although I’ll throw my 2 cents in on that, too. Read more…

Conquering Google Reader

Google ReaderGoogle Reader can be a very powerful tool, but it can quickly become your worst enemy.  I’m not going to tell you why you should be using it, or what an RSS feed is, etc., but rather how to get google reader working for you instead of the other way around.

The problem is this.  There are tons of different feeds available for pretty much whatever you are interested in.  When I first started using Reader, I subscribed to almost anything that had an RSS icon in firefox.  Things quickly got out of control and it wasn’t until recntly that I found a system that works for me.  Read more…