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The Web is replacing the TV as the #1 time-thief in our lives. And,unlike the TV, the Web does not respect the boundaries of work. Thus the time you spend on the web "working" is inherently intertwined with the time you spend "playing." As you can tell from WIRED's How To: Traverse Corporate Firewalls wiki entry, this cause for excessive amounts of stress for everyone and particularly affects those who charge by the hour (and thus actually lose money to procrastination, in addition to less free time).
Here are a few tools that you can use to help the watchful eye of your employer relax a little, and maybe focus on someone else for a change.
MeeTimer is a Firefox extension that uses a two-pronged attack to curb your misplaced time online. First it makes you aware of your time expenditures, explicitly showing you which activities and sites are taking up most of your time. Second, it actively deters you from usinga site, in case your willpower is not up to the task.
A core design principle is to 'advise' you, rather than 'force' you.This is because there are plenty of times where you legitimately need to bend the rules - e.g. to check some new resource for work - and thus you waste time (not to mention become frustrated) fighting against tools that try to block the Web. MeeTimer does not fight, it guides.