I just did the most wondrous thing in the universe.

[cjsmith]

I installed Greasemonkey yesterday afternoon, and this morning I installed a modified version of Gina Trapani's "Invisibility Cloak". (Clicking the link will merely let you see source, no worries.)

It won't let me see certain web sites from my Mozilla browser here at work. I have it configured to block access to Livejournal and to games.yahoo.com between the hours of 8am and 5pm. I'm sure the instant I get a flickr account I'll block that one too, and I'll find more as time goes on.

I disabled the script just to come here and crow. Now I will re-enable it and until 5PM, as the alert button will tell me, I'll "get back to work!"

Yay me!

Comments

[joedecker.livejournal.com]

Go you! I haven't done much with GM yet, but
the one place I'm using it saves me tons of time--I run a mailing list on someone else's server using mailman, I can't hack their copy of mailman since it's not my server, and the list gets 100 or so "not from an approved poster" admin messages a week (spam). There's no automated way in mailman to simply autodelete those, you have to intentionally click once per message to mark one of those as spam or deletable.

That is, unless you have GM run through the admin page and reset all the radio buttons. ;)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Ooo, that's nifty!

I am going to head over to mozdev and steal a few useful Greasemonkey scripts related to LiveJournal. One of them updates the time on the page while you're composing an entry. One of them unfolds compressed threads! What an excellent thing!

I really need Firefox at home. I could, just barely, live without adblock. I don't think I'm going to want to live without Greasemonkey.

[joedecker.livejournal.com]

I haven't used as much GM as I expected--but you've got me thinking about digging through the list of existing scripts.

I'm also wondering if someone makes an invisiblity-cloak like script for IM clients ;)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Appear Offline? ;-)

Yeah, I learned very quickly that if I had IM enabled while I was at work I was asking for trouble. I get random ramblings from people who don't have jobs or from people whose jobs end hours before mine does (due to time zone or chosen profession). They're feeling chatty and I'm still at my desk. It's not that I don't like the people, and I sure don't want to be rude, but I can't be doing that. (Rarely is fine, but it's never going to be rare. There are too many people on my contact list.) So I shut it right back down.

[joedecker.livejournal.com]

Appear Offline? ;-)

Nah, although that's useful too. It would also be useful for me to have a lock to prevent myself from having IM access at all some number of hours a day.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Ahhh, I see. Yeah.

Incredible how difficult it is to just not use it. (LJ for me, IM for you.) It's scarily like addictive behavior.

[joedecker.livejournal.com]

LJ and IM for me both at times, actually. Not other times. *shrug*

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Cool. Maybe I'm the only scary one then ;-)

[joedecker.livejournal.com]

I doubt that ;)

[altitudeandwine.livejournal.com]

Thanks!
That's just what I needed to help me keep my New Year's resolutions!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Oh cool -- glad it's helpful! You're another Firefox user, then? :-)

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

Isn't everyone (:

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Everyone who IS anyone! (ducking & running)

[irascignavojo.livejournal.com]

Does this mean we get to read even less of you`? Pity...

Yeah for your work ;)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Probably you will read me at different times. :-)

I sent you a Christmas card yesterday (LATE LATE LATE). I hope it gets to you by the end of January.