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limiting web surfing

Screensaver for limiting web surfing
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I often spend more time web-surfing than I mean to. Telling myself I'll visit just one more site, then stop, doesn't work. I'd like to be able to set my browser or screen saver to automatically lock me out in a certain number of minutes for a certain amount of time.

While there would have to be an override option, for emergencies, it should be sufficiently unpleasant that I wouldn't override it lightly. For example, I might need to type in: "I promise I have a legitimate work reason for overriding the web stopper", and the computer would email someone or keep count of the number of overrides.

ellens, Oct 19 2005

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       Please no one create this or HR departments will catch on.
wagster, Oct 19 2005
  

       Luckily, now that you typed it, I can just go Ctrl-C and then Ctrl-V to paste.
phundug, Oct 19 2005
  

       Oops, phundug is in HR.
ldischler, Oct 19 2005
  

       I have to bone this one because it would result in the shutting down of the halfbakery...
energy guy, Oct 19 2005
  
      
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