For the joes and janes out there who keep Adam Smith's world turning, this is for you!
Now, as we work ever harder to make our bosses ever richer, let's also do our part in wasting company time to keep the audit team from joining the ranks of the unemployed. Hopefully we all get a salary increase after these selfless acts.
You can find here a little sampler of what I come accross over the span of idle time that i do so enjoy taking during company hours.
Just perfect. A very recent study by Johns Hopkin's found cigarette smokers to be having less good sleep compared to non-smokers.By good sleep, they mean smokers are only able to have 'light' sleep and rarely proceed to 'deep' sleep. Yeah, the doctors say that it's better when it goes deep. Sleep I mean. That's where the good stuff is. So smokers have it hard because light sleep cannot compensate for the body's wear and tear during work (or play), unlike deep sleep.Well at least there's a fairly slim chance of us smokers getting robbed in the house.So it was cigarettes that always kept me from sleeping all this time? Huh. Imagine that. And I thought it was the coffee.
This is the very first browser game that I have ever encountered. Man, was it a world of fun to play this back in 2006--partly because I had the opportunity to play something online while in the office (and with full functionality too, despite the frewall crap from IT).Knight Fight is basically a standard RPG (for the uninitiated, this means role-playing game) where you suit up your knight and try to advance in levels, by hacking and slashing through other knights who're also trying to advance in levels. You can even join guild wars to up your ante.
The palette for character faces is a bit limited though, as every fair-skinned character here looks kinda German. But hey, this is a German game after all. Oh, and it's the recipient of the 2007 Best German Browser Game of the Year Award.
Freemonger's note: I give this a 50% in terms of being freeloader friendly. Accounts who pay for in-game benefits are a lot, lot better off than those who don't. Freeloading slacker that I am, please give support by signing up for this game using this link.
While most on-line gamers prefer the more visual (and usually 3D) games that are a-dime-a-dozen these days, employee gamers like me prefer the more laid back (and usually textual) Browser Games. Reason: company firewalls. 'Tis very frustrating when you have most Internet sites firewalled by the IT Department. God only knows what the IT guys do with all that extra bandwidth. It most likely has to do with "download" and "porn" being in the same sentence. Anyway, I am not a techgeek, otherwise I'll be in a better paying job in IT. I, however, have something techgeeks don't--the impeccable logic and heightened senses of a pureblood slacker, just like Spiderman and Free Willy combined.So one day I was trying to (desperately) surf the net, when I finally found this particular game, Knight Fight. Nice! In my remaining 4-hour shift I was able to create a knight and level it until 8. Let's just say those last 4 hours was not something the company would term as "productive."This really got me going. I asked myself what made the game push through when so many before it had failed. After some checking, I stumbled upon the term "browser-based games." My ever-reliable Internet references say that it worked because the game's website does not install anything on your computer. It plays everything over the net so no blocking scripts are triggered (in our office's firewall at least). And so here began my crusade of finding these browser-based saviors, which I will be sharing in this blog.
Just perfect. A very recent study by Johns Hopkin's found cigarette smokers to be having less good sleep compared to non-smokers.
