The blackberries we used to associate with breakfast.
OK, I have to admit this New York Times story hit home with me because I get up at 4:45 a.m. each day and am usually on the Web before 5 (the only thing slowing me down is feeding the dogs).
"Breakfast can wait," the Times' headline reads. "The day's first stop is online."
As the story says:
Weekday mornings have long been frenetic, disjointed affairs. Now families that used to fight over the shower or the newspaper tussle over access to the lone household computer — or about whether they should be using gadgets at all, instead of communicating with one another. ...
The surge of early risers is reflected in online and wireless traffic patterns. Internet companies that used to watch traffic levels rise only when people booted up at work now see the uptick much earlier.
Let's see how Two-Way readers live their lives.
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