At work, I occasionally found that if faced with a particularly mundane piece of work, or something that dragged out for a long period of time, it would be quite easy to get distracted by popular sites such as twitter, BBC news, engadget and various other tech-related but not entirely productive sites.
I thought “someone else must have had this problem”, and if they hadn’t, I was going to write a Firefox Add On to help maintain productivity by blocking distraction web sites. But, alas, someone has beaten me to it! I have found and installed the LeechBlock Firefox add on and it is fantastic. I’ve added my favourite sites to a list of sites to block at any time that isn’t a break time (so here, 9-11, 11.15-1, 1.30-3, 3.15-5) and it’s proven very effective.
