Mourning in the Evening

Over the past few years, I've realized that mornings are actually the most productive time of day for me. If only I liked mornings, that would be a good thing. Not only do I not really like mornings, but there are so many distractions in the morning. In the tech world, things can happen overnight - and often do. Coders may pull an all-nighter to finish an application and call it ApplPi because the release was at 3:14 am. Now, who can pass that up as a news item?

Speaking of late nights, last weekend I attended a programming competition that started at 9:00 am. I had to wake up at 6:30 am just to make it there in time. What's up with that? Programming competitions should be held at midnight, not midmorning. No cookie for you.