Question Of The Day – Breakfast Or Emails?

laptopbedToday’s Question of The Day :

What comes first in your day?   Having breakfast or checking emails / RSS feeds?

Are you someone who has their laptop / iPhone next to the bed to check online as soon as you wake up? Or do you prefer to have your cornflakes first?

Let us know in the comments!

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  • http://elvin.ro elvin

    I do them both. I wake up, start the coffee, shower, 2 sandwiches and then i sit in front of my pc, reading news & mails.
    Sometimes when i expect to have some important mails, i take my iPhone and read them in bed :D My gf thinks i`m obsessed. I admit i am.

  • http://rainfallgraphics.com Matthew Simmons

    e-mail! I just roll over and turn my laptop on. Normally it’s within arms reach because I normally work until I’m too tired to make educated decisions.

  • MUOFan

    None of the above. A cigarette, a cup of coffee and then my PC.

  • irotsoma

    I always have my BlackBerry next to my bed to charge and so the first thing I do every morning is pick it up and read email and whatever else until I wake up enough to get out of bed. I’m not a morning person. Fortunately for my wife, she is a morning person so she just gets up when my alarm goes off most mornings even if she doesn’t have to.

    Reading the BlackBerry is often the last thing I do before bed too, excluding the physical things with my wife of course. Although not always email, I also use my BlackBerry for reading books on MobiPocket. Since I’m a night person I often find a book helpful in falling asleep. I find the BlackBerry perfect for that since it’s small and has a built in light so it doesn’t keep my wife awake. The text is a little small, but I’m nearsighted, so I haven’t had too many problems and hopefully won’t for the next 5 or 10 years until eBooks become better.

  • http://repeatgeek.com Daniel H

    I like to prepare my breakfast first and eat it at the computer. The sooner I get out of bed and get some food in me, the sooner I can wake up and get on with my day.

  • http://emoneymatters.wordpress.com Dhirav

    I have my iphone next to my bed so first thing is to check emails and world stock markets :-)

  • http://www.wiredoriginals.etsy.com Cari

    Set coffee on first, then straight to computer.

  • Anas

    Of course email! My laptop is always next to my bed, when not on it… Email, RSS, twitter, and then maybe milk or coffee…

  • Ray

    i wake up, head straight for computer, check emails, rss, forums, torrents, mush games i play, etc…

    shower next, then breakfast at around 7.15am (weet-bix, love it).

    i have a laptop plugged in next to my bed too.

  • http://www.simplyiphonenow.com Ellen

    I have an iPhone next to the bed too and so I check my email. Then I go downstairs and make coffee and while it is brewing start browsing my rss feeds using feedly in Firefox. Breakfast comes later…

  • King Nothing

    A college student, whose laptop sits on the side of the bed. Wake up, check email/feeds, sleep, miss class, really wake up, library, brunch.

  • kelly

    you have to ask? email & rss feed & twitter. i get up early & go straight to work so i have time to do this before my first meeting!

  • Jeff

    6 steps to a good morning.
    ==========================

    1) Wake up
    2) Turn kettle on
    3) Exercise
    4) Make coffee and cereal
    5) Sit at desk with coffee and cereal
    6) Read email, news feeds, etc while having breakfast

  • Shyam

    Emails and RSS comes first :)

  • http://www.liligo.com jeremie

    First is shower… then having breakfast on the way to work, buy a coffee on the way, drink it in front of my computer, read my mails, set my team daily work.

  • http://po-moemy.ru Артем Андреевич

    Of course e-mail) ICQ, new comments moderation, smoking and breakfast.

  • http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2223649/3_time_saving_tips_for_computer_work.html?cat=9 The Chilibuddy

    Email. The alarm on the android goes off and I see the @ sign and the number of emails before I get out of bed. What a geek.

  • http://www.deansherwin.com Dean Sherwin

    I normally wake up and turn on my laptop in bed. If I don’t have that I’ll use my phone to check RSS feeds and e-mails. THEN my day starts :D

  • Mike Burleson

    Funny you should ask this as I am currently eating breakfast while reading your newsletter!

  • Kevin Reynolds

    It seems the cats always come first. While the coffee’s brewing, a little snack. Then the coffee and computer can last a while.

  • Kevin

    Both…get breakfast and then sit down to read.

  • http://www.golfarcade.net Greg

    Breakfast for sure! I can’t do anything with out something in my belly.

  • Stew812 & family

    Hi MUO,
    You guy always ask for comments, well you twisted my arm =D
    I love MUO, look forward to it everyday, it’s the best thing in cyberspace!
    I (and my daughters) check our email/facebook and then we eat.
    Thanks for all your effort and keep up the good work!

  • http://www.aaronvailsblog.co.cc Aaron Vail

    My morning
    ————-
    on mon-fri
    1) wake up
    2) do school
    3) check email

    ======================
    on sat & sun
    1) wake up at 3:00am
    2) check email!

  • http://scrapsofmygeeklife.com Michele McGraw (Scrappinmichele)

    Definitely checking e-mail and Twitter. Laptop and iPhone never too far from bedside and it’s the first thing I do after the alarm clock goes off.

  • rubyesmeralda

    i cannot live without my laptop so the first thing i do when i wake up its take my laptop i have it next to my bed for to check my emails and news that are very important for me and when i finish to check all then i eat
    i cannot be with my pc so eating i continue browsing the internet
    and yes i admit i’m a total addict to the internet

  • Jhoyla

    Check e-mail, then realise I should have put the coffee on first :(

  • GlobeRunner

    Run, then shower, then emails, then breakfast (on good days), OR breakfast, then emails (on bad days).

  • Bob

    at the same time?

  • http://st.thomsen-jones.co.uk Steven Jones

    Android in one hand flipping through mail, rss, tweets. Sppon in right digging through the cereal.. and they say men can’t multitask!

  • Marie

    Guilty!! I have my laptop under my bed. So when I wake up in the morning I pull it out right away and check to see what’s going on online.

  • http://shreemandadi.com Shree

    06:00 to 07:00 Google Reader (RSS)
    07:00 Urgent EMails only
    07:30 Breakfast, Getting Ready, and Go to Work…

  • Jimmy

    Breakfast first.
    Then straight to emails as soon as breakfast is finished.
    Took a lot of discipline to learn to resist opening emails first!