blonde poker forum

despite working in an office which employs 350+ people someone 'in the know' has just told me that blondepoker is the second most accessed website in our office  ;oops;

I really need to get some self-discipline, coz I'm rubbish.  Ideally I'd like to get them to block my access, but don't want to draw unnecessary attention.  Is there any way I can block the site myself (or at least make it very difficult to access so I don't just 'pop on for five minutes'?

PMSL

It's called will power!  lol

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lol :D

I know - but willpower I ain't got!

That sounds painful - couldn't you just remove the site from your bookmarks instead?

And remove the keyboard from your computer

Because a bookmark is so much easier than clicking the URL bar and typing in the URL? :) :)  ;goodvevil;

Seriously Claw, get a grip on this because I went through a nasty time nearly loosing my job just so I could access the online gaming website forums (wireplay) back in 1999-2000. I spent most of the day on there. You need self discipline. Failing that, get the IT department to block it for you. get your "friend in the know" to do you a favour.

;iagree;

When I worked for my last company, I spent about 10 months wasting time on a forum.  My manager used to comment that I used to click off the screen whenever he walked into my office - I just pleaded innocent and said Do I?  Thankfully I left to work for myself before he pushed it too much.

Not good to spend your time at work on line all day, it's a slippery slope downhill.

Stop reading this and get back to work!

You should be able to configure your firewall to block access. I've never done it but I don't think it's complicated.

Now  ;slavedriver;

tsk tsk - spending all day surfing poker forums when you should be working, you should be ashamed!!!  ;whistle;

Out of curiosity if blondepoker was number 2 what was number 1 ???

2+2

prolly google

Most companies now have tracking software that is monitored....
Be very careful... i've just seen one of our employees with over 50 hours of internet time this month!!!!


Also if you click on your own profile you can see your own stats

a certain member of the itb crew who shall remain nameless  plays mtt's during office hours lol

Disgraceful.

Give up surfing or give up work.  Or, as I was told by my boss about ten years ago, "Stop taking the piss or leave"

Uninstall Firefox. IE takes so long to load you'll have plenty of time to get work done in between.

When I last worked in an office which was 18 months ago I spent perhaps 30 hours out of 37 on various poker sites and forums. My only regret is that I wasted the other 7 hours each week pretending to do some work!

Wow, its like you have a webcam set up in my office!!  ;tightend;

(ok so its more like 3 hours but i only work 35!! ;))

Sigh...

All this talk of bunking off makes me wish I had a job.

Tank,

I have just noticed your new sig.

I must protest. >:(

MikkyT was  not that pissed!

 :P

LOL, love it.

This used to be a problem for me. I spent all day on Blonde, My Space etc. and ujust used to delete the history.

I thought this was enough until i looked on the server when it was left on, and saw all the sites listed.
Luckily my boss wasnt too good with computers.

ive recently had to lead a formal investigation for innapropriate use of the internet. when i visited the IT department, the manager let me view all the sites this worker had been in. i could see them all except the ones where he had to do a personal log in i.e if you sign into a yahoo or hotmail, IT cant see inside that site anymore. you could therefore theoretically sign into yahoo and go to blonde through your email screen search the internet. if you sign into blonde, they will know youve been to blonde but should not be able to see what pages in the forum you have visted.
not that im supporting slacking off from work!! :)

Not true mad.... every URL you have accessed will be logged. They will be able to see any non-secure page you have accessed - including blonde. Yahoo and Hotmail and online banks cannot be seen because either these are encrypted pages (https://) or they require a session id with a login and password. Forums do not usually work like that and where a page can be viewed as a guest then the URL that is logged on a page access will still work.

ah, so even if you logged in via yahoo, you can still see the pages of the forum. i didnt know this. so why isnt the forum encripted if you need to sign in?

This forum is public, its not private information.

The IT department will not be able to see the contents of your PMs. Those are private and as such they are protected by your password and you need to log in to read them.

But you don't need to login to read this forum. And therefore the URL logged will access this forum without the need for a login.

It's easy to get away it. Just make an SSH tunnel your home computer and then they will never know.