After the last three public executions, the mice decided to lie low for a while. We didn't hear a peep from them until last night, when a scout foolishly ventured into the garage while we were paper mâché-ing jack-o-lanterns for Webelos. He was quickly apprehended and incarcerated, then met a swift end at dawn at the hands of our chickens.
On a different note, my productivity at work has soared since I blocked a few websites in my /etc/hosts file. I realized I had gotten in the habit of working, then every time I hit a complicated spot, I'd almost instinctively switch to a browser to read a quick Slashdot article or CNN report. The waste of time was adding up quickly, so I decided to block a handful of sites for myself at work.
127.0.0.1 ksl.com
127.0.0.1 cnn.com
127.0.0.1 slashdot.org
127.0.0.1 failblog.org
127.0.0.1 espn.com
It's worked surprisingly well over the past couple weeks. Even though I could unblock them in a few seconds, the very fact that I'd have to jump through a hoop reminds me that I'm supposed to be focusing on work.
2 comments:
Just hope you don't fail the mice's test, they might come for your brain!
You know, it's a relief to see I'm not the only one that gets on distracted tangents of browsing. I had one of my friends block reddit.com which did wonders for my productivity.
Then out of curiosity I decided to see if I could bypass the block, as I didn't know how it was actually blocked in the first place.
I SSH-d into my home server and tunneled browser traffic through it, but oddly enough it remained blocked. I tried going to the actual IP address, and even changing my DNS provider, all to no avail.
He had blocked it the hosts file. It's a pretty effective way to block something.
YOU AN DO THAT?! I was just thinking how awesome it would be if certain sites (like failblog, giggle giggle)were blocked. Do it on my computer!
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