Here's some help for those of you, who waste to much time online. Thank God I don't have that problem. cough cough Stop Wasting Time, Me For anyone trying to get some work done, the internet can be a minefield of distractions. Simply searching for something on Wikipedia can lead you off in a hundred different directions until, before you know it, you've forgotten exactly why you went there in the first place.Fortunately, help is at hand, in the shape of a crafty little script called No Links Please that runs in the background while you browse the web. It removes all the web links from pages you view, to stop you wandering off anywhere unsupervised. So that you can find stuff in the first place, however, it leaves Google search pages untouched.I tried browsing without links for a while and although it undoubtedly curbed my more aimless clicking, it also made it hard to do a lot of really useful stuff. It might work better if I build up a list of sites or domains to be link "enabled" or "disabled" based on my where I know I'm likely to be distracted and where I'll need to actually get stuff done.Or, perhaps a more practical solution is another script called Webolodeon that controls your web browsing in a subtler way. After a set period of time, say 20 minutes, your browser locks up and a box pops up demanding to know why you need to keep on browsing. Of course, you could always get around it by just typing random text. But you'd only be fooling yourself.It might seem odd to cripple your own computer in the name of productivity, but it seems worth considering. Several studies have found that that giving in to procrastination can have a serious impact on your health and wellbeing as well as your productivity.Armed with a suitably broken web browser, I am determined to put procrastination behind me. (Good luck - this blog post should have been finished a week ago! - Ed)Will Knight, online technology editorI thought the point of the web was for wasting time... and hooking up. Why would anybody want to mess with that.
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Wasting to much time?
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Wandering off-topic in Wikipedia and learning a whole lot of new stuff is the best part of it!It's not new to the Web. I can do the same with a printed encyclopaedia. Indeed, the Oxford English Dictionary is great for random browsing and following cross-references.
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I already waste too much time on here (something that wont change :|), that lil program wouldnt stop me, even if my parents installed it and took away admin settings from me :P
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If everyone could only work instead of browse then no one would be reading this blog....
had to laugh at that comment lol
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Originally Posted By: IneligibleWandering off-topic in Wikipedia and learning a whole lot of new stuff is the best part of it!That's how most of my manias come about. For instance, I read something about oranges on a science site, looked something up about 'em, stumbled across an image of whole oranges floating in a hot bath, and read about how the Japaneses sometimes put oranges in there baths. From that I got all jazzed about Japanese baths and finally ancient Japanese design & culture.I'm always doing shit like that. It's exciting when I'm focused and learning new shit. My down times between manias I can't hardly take though. It's like there's nothing in the world that's interesting.
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That's how uneducated generation X folks like myself get their education, from random information on the net.
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Originally Posted By: IneligibleWandering off-topic in Wikipedia and learning a whole lot of new stuff is the best part of it!I can spend hours on Wikipedia. At one point last term I spent 3 hours at the library just looking at Eisenhower, moved to the Interstate system, road system, original roads, motorist clubs of the early 1900s, The Lincoln Highway, National Road etc, etc, etc..Don't get me started on Danish, Russian, Hungarian, English, Swede, or French Royalty because there are probably days of my life invested in that meaningless information.