There is always a solution to your data problems with Google Analytics (GA). You just need to find the correct plug-in/function. In my case, I was trying to find out a way in which I could filter out the visits generated when I surf my own blog. Initially I tried using the Filter manager in GA to exclude my IP. But that didn’t seem to work because of the dynamic IP assignment by ISPs.
The solution to this problem in GA is fairly simple in case you locate the correct function to use. In this case it was the _setVar function.