- The time I end up spending in front of my computer varies wildly between 0 like on a long day working downstairs on a harvest in the TB infection room. To about 50% on days where I'm running an assay at my bench or working in the sterile hood. To about 100% on data analysis days. These days vary from week to week but in general I'd say I'm in front of the screen around 50% of the time now.

- Unless you count emailing to people outside of the office as internet usage I think most of the time I have that internet working for not work reasons like gmail and pandora. Which is usually on about all day long unless I leave my desk for an extended period of time. Occassionally I do check my bank accounts or perhaps by some much needed bike parts, like I did yesterday, or look at webcomics or pretty much anything to break the monotony of data analysis.

-I'm sure my work does in fact have some kind of policy about not being on the web for non work reasons, but enforcement seems pretty light handed considering how many screens I saw streaming world cup or how many people play pandora all day long. There is also a big facebook scrabble group here as well. For the most part I try to at least be working most of the day and keep the net time to a minimum, but there are slow days and long incubations with nothing better to do. And after 4 all bets are off, granted I work at the type of place where we can keep personal stocks of beer in the lunchroom fridge and then drink them after 4 as well.

Pretty much the only places I've seen blocked are somethingaweful and southpark. So I can't watch episodes of SP at work, but at least youtube still works.