The roof of Kinkakuji, Kyoto on a gloom day.

Frustrated at how slowly things have been moving, I've been a little dark lately. Either a symptom or a cause (or both?), one of the big problems has been time wasted on internet sites like facebook, flickr, asoboo, bloglines, google news, etc....

Today I feel a whole lot lighter. I found the perfect fix to my internet addiction: a firefox add-on called Leechblock. Lifehacker has a nice overview of it here.

Basically I have banned myself from facebook, twitter, asoboo between the hours of 9 - 12.30, 1.30 - 6 and 7.30 - 10. And then I put a time limit of 30 minutes every 6 hours on google news and bloglines. I couldn't bear to block flickr. But we'll see how it goes. You can check a box that forbids you from making any changes to the settings during the times that the blocks/limits are imposed to make it impossible for your resolve to be compromised.

You wasting too much time on the net? Get this add-on. Suspect I may actually start blogging more regularly again now.....

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