Alright, vacations over and its time to get back to work. Unless you happen to work at a Web 2.0 company, then cruising Slashdot and Engadget all day might not be the most productive use of your time.

Procrastination

For those of us who lack the time management skills and willpower to do it ourselves, there is a really fantastic Greasemonkey script that will get you back on track.

What is Greasemonkey

Straight from Wikipedia.

Greasemonkey is a Mozilla Firefox extension that allows users to install scripts that make on-the-fly changes to specific web pages. As the Greasemonkey scripts are persistent, the changes made to the web pages are executed every time the page is opened, making them effectively permanent for the user running the script.

Time To Go

Sometimes the simplest solutions are the best, install the script and then the timer starts. When your time runs out, you are redirected to a blank page. If you absolutely, positively must finish that article on the latest Microsoft rumor you can click on the timer and give yourself another ten seconds.

One of the nice features about this script is that it doesn’t allow you to just hit the back button to go back to procrastinating.

Web 2.0 Roundup

All in all, this might be one of the better uses of your time today. If you were ever looking for some extra motivation to get to work, this might be it.