~a smattering of sarah~

online distractions and weather watching

Sat, 2008-07-12 08:36 — emily* (not verified)

wow, so good to hear you say this and everyone else's comments...  I had never thought of trying to actually block myself from these sites, like you say, I'd hate an employer to do this to me. But if I were my boss, no wait, I AM my (own) boss, I would not be impressed by my productivity some days. E.g. How did I get here? Well, I'm working on a website for a Yoga company and was looking on Flickr for photos to do with yoga. I found your Yoga for Geeks photos, which I was totally curioius about so I went to your profile and then found my way here.

I also like to watch the weather, but in a different way to what you're suggesting I think: on the BBC weather website they have a gallery of photos submitted by people from around the UK and its absolutely fascinating!

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A hodge-podge of random thoughts, musings, and links – sometimes about social change, sometimes about technology and the web, sometimes about yoga, and occasionally about knitting. Sometimes (because I'm a Canadian girl with deep roots in the British Isles) I even write about the weather.

I'm a yoga teacher, founder of Yoga for Geeks, and a freelance web writer, strategist, and project manager. I also help to co-create the amazing Web of Change Conference, every September in beautiful British Columbia.

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