The last three items on the list are very true but don't really have anything to do with SCRUM, that's just the way it is and you probably already knew this before you started using SCRUM. :)

two week sprints :-) try doing real RAD deliveries are done every day.

Also doing stand up at the start of the day strikes me as silly doesn't take account of people commutes I prefer end of day wash-ups so when you get in first thing you can get started and not hang around for the daily scrum meeting.

different strokes for different folks. The AM daily has just worked for us

mm wouldn't work in London or any where with considerable commuting I used to get in a 8:45 the rest of the team at 9:30 - that is 45 mins per day used suboptimaly.

we do it at 10:30a, and most of the team is in by 9:30.

so you have over 1.5 hours potentially of people hanging around waiting for the meeting to set the days priority's.

From a time and motion perspective Better to do it at the end of the day so that you can be productive from the get go.