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Sun, 23 Sep 2007 17:24:59 +0000

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By: Michael Stewart

Michael Stewart — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 23:34:31 +0000

I use an RSS alarm clock from Hak5.org which plays a track to wake me up then reads out the days news.

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 17:27:26 +0000

I’m also a huge fan of the wake-up mp3 alarm- I used “WinAlarm”, the winamp plugin, and just left winamp running 24/7.
I found, though, that it was best to match the song with the period. For instance, during a particularly grueling summer internship, I had to wake up at 4:30 in the morning, and had it set to play “Mighty Fine Blues” by The Eels. The wake-up song is important, it can establish your personal groove for the rest of the day.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 08:04:44 +0000

My classic wake up song is Orbital - Halcyon & On & On… Its an electronic song that was most likely in Hackers or something… Starts very mellow and then progressively gets harder

By: Of Zen and Computing

Of Zen and Computing — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 01:26:37 +0000

Haha, nice! I do the same thing, except I wake up to a much more mellow track: “Morning Has Broken” by Cat Stevens.

By: David Wilkerson

David Wilkerson — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 18:56:53 +0000

I use my automation to automatically play heavy metal music files in the morning to wake me up.