If that doesn’t work, my second plan is to edit my \windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file with a bloglines 0.0.0.0 so that I just can’t access it at all. (I might have to tell IE that bloglines shouldn’t go through the proxy)

Reading your article, it occured to me that I could adpot something like your plan by adding a scheduled script that say at 7pm that updates the hosts file (and or other settings) to allow me to access that sight only after 7pm. Seems like an interesting idea (and yet another waste of time writing that script :-p)

So we look.

I’m in a constant struggle with this. Some people say we do other things not focused on the goal (read: procrastinate) because we’re afraid we can’t finish. I don’t know if it’s that easy. To some extent, acheiving the goal is pointless from a survival standpoint (and often from an intellectual one too, if you dig deeply enough). Once you’ve reached mating age, have a roof over your head, and food in your tummy, nature pretty much doesn’t care after that.

I often question our drive to buck nature and turn ourselves into these ultra efficient machines for the sake of a dollar. Do we want to be people or robots?

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You see I have work, school and my own project. I wake up a 6:30 work on the project from 7:00 to 9:30 and then I have school, work and other obligations. I always get in another half hour of work, at least, on my project at another time throughout the day, however because my schedule isn’t fixed I don’t decide exactly when to do it.

This is the problem. For some days I don’t get much chance to even sit down, however for others I have periods of time when I am sitting at my computer and I haven’t specifically allotted this time for work. So what do I do? Check e-mail, blogs, forums, ect. various times because I am procrastinating working or doing something more productive.

I think the key to stopping it is to ensure that I always have some sort of scheduled time for almost my entire day of what I do within those periods. Then if I can’t do those things because work or other things would override it, then I can shift the schedule. However, my current status of just leaving time periods blank because I’m not sure I can work on my project then has left huge inefficiencies.

Hopefully I’ll work out a good system to both keep me informed and up to date while remaining productive and efficient. Excellent post!