I have to admit, I'm weak. I waste so much time every day, looking at the same sites over and over, putting off the stuff I really need to be doing.
I found a solution to my troubles, in a firefox extension called LeechBlock: http://www.proginosko.com/leechblock.html

You basically just make a list of the websites that tend to suck up your time, and this plugin can block those sites from being accessed. It's very customizable, letting you block sites for a certain length of time, or at specified times of the day. You can even have it give you a small budget of time for certain sites, for instance I could set it to let me browse a certain site for only 5 minutes each hour.

The only site leeching my time is this one :O

Genius! It's so much better than my solution, which was to edit the hosts file. Now I can do the same thing, but still let myself view sites for a short period of time a day.

Let me know when there is a plugin that will finish my degree for me so I can focus on Japanese

I've always wanted this! Better to change my browser than to have to change myself.

I'm so glad to know I'm not the only one who needs this

Too bad it's just for Firefox, if something comes up for Chrome let me know.

An amazing thing happened today. My 10 minutes of random browsing (every 2 hours) ran out, and you know what I ended up deciding to do next? SRS! It really works!

Awesome! I just added about ten political sites. I spend way too much time following politicians' lives instead of my own. :o

Today I was actually able to sit down and write 5 pages on a paper that I have been trying to get started on for about a week. I initially just told the plugin to block my good sites for just 1 hour, but you know what? I kept on writing my paper for about 4 hours straight, without going back to look at any sites. The whole problem for me was just *getting started*. Once I got past that initial hurdle, I didn't even care anymore to stop and look at random websites.

Now I've got some extra time to throw towards my SRS for tonight

This is great!
A while back I decided not to a couple of forums that started taking hours each day but it is getting a bit hard not to go there! It already became a bad habit! First thing in the morning, go there.. ;(
Now facebook is starting to do the same! !!!
I'll give the gadget a try!

danieldesu Wrote:An amazing thing happened today. My 10 minutes of random browsing (every 2 hours) ran out, and you know what I ended up deciding to do next? SRS! It really works!

How do you configure it to only allow 10 minutes for every hour? I can't manage to get it to do that.

samesong Wrote:

danieldesu Wrote:An amazing thing happened today. My 10 minutes of random browsing (every 2 hours) ran out, and you know what I ended up deciding to do next? SRS! It really works!

How do you configure it to only allow 10 minutes for every hour? I can't manage to get it to do that.

I checked the "actively block pages on these sites once time period is reached or time limit is exceeded." Then, I typed "10" in the box that says "Enter a time limit after which to block these sites _______ minutes every (1 hour/2 hours/etc.)."

The remaining amount of viewing time will show up at the bottom-right corner of your window. 7 minutes and 10 seconds left for me!

Ah, okay. I tried what you said before, but I didn't realize you have to check the days of the week too.

What is the difference between

a) Not going to the website
b) typing the website that you dont want to go to so that something else prevents you from going to the website?

liosama Wrote:What is the difference between

a) Not going to the website
b) typing the website that you dont want to go to so that something else prevents you from going to the website?

One is easy, the other is easier.

I've always been ok at shutting out *some* websites entirely from my life if I felt they were hogging my time. I prefer self-discipline, but I'll admit that there are way too many potential distractions in my life these days with a computer at my fingertips. My forefathers never needed the level of discipline from distractions that I do. There simply wasn't very much else for them to do, besides things that I'd consider productive these days (reading, getting some exercise, etc..)

There are some times when I'm particularly weak to random surfing. One of these is late night. If I don't feel like playing videogames or going to sleep I'm fairly useless for working (self-employed) and so I end up reading all sorts of esoteric articles and go to bed way later than I should.

Also, during the workday I like when I'm able to scan some headlines or whatever. What's bad is getting off on a wild sheep chase when I should be working.

Brilliant add-on. Thanks.

This is a great extension! I got locked out of this site once already. To be really firm, I configured my 1st set (which is only this forum, for now) to not allow me to change any options during times sites are blocked (so you can't just unblock it and keep going).

The best thing is the support for subdomains...if it weren't for subdomain support, I wouldn't be able to use this on this forum, or obviously I couldn't study kanji, either. Just block "forum.koohi.com", not all of "koohii.com", and you're all set.