Use firefox to block websites / urls

I used to have a problem, and it was driving me to distraction, literally. A large part of my work consists of surfing the internet for work related information. But while working you often have to wait for something, a piece of software, a scanner warming up. A quick click on “Google News” became a little too frequent. Ever found yourself on a news website without remembering typing the address?

I cannot just unplug my computer — work without a working Internet connection would be quite impossible. Time to kick the habbit and here I found a friend in the BlockSite addon for Firefox. All the Google News links are now grayed out and useless; and the same for most of the newspapers & tech sites I tended to visit.

Sure I can bypass this, but having to do this is a good reminder that I probably shouldn’t be visiting the site. And to keep myself honest I have installed BlockSite on each of the computers I use throughout the day, remotely or local.