LeechBlock: It's like Methadone for Internet addicts!

A fellow freelancer, Holly Tucker, recommended I check out the LeechBlock add-on for Mozilla’s Firefox web browser as a way to help manage my addiction to Twitter and other time-sucking fun on the internet.

In a nutshell, LeechBlock allows users to specify sites that sap their productivity and define when they should be restricted.  The highly customizable add-on allows you to establish time limits and will restrict the site if you try getting a little web-ghetto before noon.

Within 13 minutes of being “LeechBlocked,” I was using Internet Explorer—the web browser equivalent of shooting up smack with a dirty needle.  Apparently I have a serious problem. Stop it. Don’t look at me. I’m a hideous monster!

NOTE: I may have exaggerated a little. I didn’t resort to using Internet Explorer. I wouldn’t stoop that low. LeechBlock is working well—so well, in fact, that I only have two minutes to finish this blog post. Check it out!