Picture this: you sit down at your computer to write a report that’s due the
next day. You fire up a web browser to check the company intranet for a document.
For a split second you glance at your home page. “Wow!” you say. “The
Red Sox won in the 17th inning! Let me see what happened...”
Three hours later, no report’s been written, and you want to throw yourself
out the window.
Sound familiar?
It’s too easy to scamper down the rabbit hole of the Web when you’ve got
pressing tasks to work on. At one point or another, you’ve probably burned a
few hours clicking around Wikipedia, Amazon.com, eBay, Flickr, or Google
News and afterward hated yourself for it. This hack uses JavaScript to
blank out certain web sites during times you’re supposed to be working.
First, identify the biggest offenders — the sites you can spend hours clicking
around for no particular reason except boredom, procrastination, or lack of
more creative ways to spend your time..
next day. You fire up a web browser to check the company intranet for a document.
For a split second you glance at your home page. “Wow!” you say. “The
Red Sox won in the 17th inning! Let me see what happened...”
Three hours later, no report’s been written, and you want to throw yourself
out the window.
Sound familiar?
It’s too easy to scamper down the rabbit hole of the Web when you’ve got
pressing tasks to work on. At one point or another, you’ve probably burned a
few hours clicking around Wikipedia, Amazon.com, eBay, Flickr, or Google
News and afterward hated yourself for it. This hack uses JavaScript to
blank out certain web sites during times you’re supposed to be working.
First, identify the biggest offenders — the sites you can spend hours clicking
around for no particular reason except boredom, procrastination, or lack of
more creative ways to spend your time..
