Struggling to get up in the morning?

I'm someone who likes to make a plan of action to get things done on my day off, or even on the weekend. I slowly collect ideas and build an ultimate to-do list which features everything I want to accomplish on that day. It's generally a long list, but I think that I can get it all done and it will be a success. Even if I only get half of it done I think to myself that I still would be productive. I go to bed thinking about how proud I will be of my very productive day.

So I wake up and it's like 12 midday and I realise what has happened... again. I've dismissed my alarm multiple times throughout the morning and I only figure this out during random blurred visions later that day. I go into a sulk, end up not doing anything on the list and spend the day watching TV and being grumpy.

Well that was before I was introduced to the world of better alarm clocks. They are often described as annoying by the masses, but I prefer effective.

We have the puzzle alarm clock:



Pretty self-explanatory.

We have Clocky:



Who rolls around your bedroom until you catch him and shut him up!

And we have the one I use, the helicopter alarm clock:


I use this simply because it was really cheap when I got it, and my bedroom is messy enough that it takes a while to find it.

So what do you guys use to wake you up in the morning? Would you ever consider a more extreme alarm clock?

SitesLike

SitesLike.com

I first came across the site after I had watched my first 72 minutes of megavideo and couldn't be bothered to find a clever way to get around that. So I searched on google for video websites like the one I was using, and siteslike.com came up and I found an alternative and went on my way. I kept searching google and after a while I would find myself back at siteslike.com and it was from there that my problem was solved. So from then on I would just go to siteslike.com first and save myself the hassle.

I don't think it requires a huge explanation, and check out the popular bookmarks if you're feeling... stressed out?

Fiverr

Fiverr.com

Fiverr.com is a very useful site if you are trying to make money online. It is a community where you pay somebody $5 and they do something for you. Obviously you can also sell your talent's for a fiver, if you are a gifted graphic artist or voice over artist etc. The site is potentially very useful if you know how to use it, and that $5 investment may make you much more profitable in the long run.

I will be honest that the site does have a lot of people selling their pointless talents, but the lengths people are willing to go to for $5 is amazing.

Sporcle

Sporcle.com

This site probably isn't technically useful, but it is fun. We had a massive Sporcle fad at school over the last couple of years, where almost every PC had somebody on it. The school didn't ban it for so long because it isn't a gaming website, in fact, it's more of a knowledge website. Teacher's would even start playing it with us in class.

The site is all about filling in lists. The most popular are name the 50 US states, you are given a time limit and off you go. Their are thousands of different ones to chose from and it is incredibly addictive. From characters of TV shows to countries of the world. If you complete countries of the world, you are a God by the way. Don't forget Micronesia!

If you're bored, check it out, and think of it as being productive.. you're using your brain and learning stuff.

MyP2P

MyP2P.eu

MyP2P is the best place I have found to watch sport online. It doesn't host any of the video's itself, but is more of an index. I was first told about it by a friend when I didn't have SKY Sports and had to listen to the football (soccer) on the radio. But the site carries more sports than just that. I still use the site regularly to watch my favourite teams from around the world play in different sports, and I use it a lot if say, I'm in the USA and desperately want to watch the Champions League match but can't find anywhere with the Fox Soccer Channel.

The site is easy to navigate and I recommend changing the time zone to match yours. The streams may not be listed until perhaps an hour before kick off in order to stop the powers that be from taking them down. For a big champions league match, you can see about 50 different streams whereas watching a lowly SPL game, you may only see one or two. Many of the streams require programs to run them, such as Sopcast or a plugin for Veetle TV, but many are just links to sites like justin.tv. Generally the higher the bitrate the higher the quality.

If anyone has any other good sites for watching sports online, let me know!