How to use this site .... There's only one page, with four major sections, Best Desktop, More Desktop, Selected Topics, and Other Stuff (identified by diferent background colours). So, browse by scrolling down; or, jump to selected topics using the drop-down menus at the top of the page; or, if you prefer to search by keyword, use 'Find in Page' (Ctrl F - best to drag the search window to the right) then enter a keyword e.g. expert; or finally, use the search window below:
Given the rate at which information on the Internet is increasing, we're all "confronted by insurmountable opportunities" as Walt Kelly's POGO once noted. But information is only really useful to us when we need it - at other times, I submit, it's merely noise.... My approach to dealing with this has been to try to develop simple, personal JITIS (Just In Time Information Systems) - actually, I've come up with, and discarded, quite a few over the years - this is one of the latest.
The idea of this simple site is that it serve as a 'mini-portal' for me and for colleague ITAs - a JIT access to Internet resources that have proven useful to our peers. You might consider it a Toolbox consisting of a moderated Bookmark list (moderated through recommendations and feedback from colleagues). Note that it's also a testbed for me to try out different methods of delivering such information - so please cut me some slack!
Disclaimer: Since this site has no content per se, and is simply a collection of links to other sites of possible interest around the World Wide Web, it goes without saying that no representation or warranty, express or implied, of any kind or nature, is made regarding the accuracy or comprehensiveness of any information you may obtain from such links. Use such information only as you see fit and appropriate - caveat lector!
(2) If you have any comments, recommendations for sites that you feel should be added (or deleted), or encounter broken links, please email me at
hmcgrory@zing-net.ca
My thanks to these friends and former colleagues for their encouragement, and for freely giving, or from whom I've stolen, their favourite sites:
Alan Jones, Alice Gurdon, Angelo DelDuca, Ben Wagner, Bill Antic, Bill MacArthur, Bob Allore, Bob Bowen, Brian Dos Ramos, Carol Slama, Christine Machida, Christine McCutcheon, Constantin Kuznetsov Jr, Dave Thoms, Dick Weytze, Doug Stone, Drew de Kergommeaux, Ernie Black, Fred Granek, George Boden, Ger Versluis, Gopala Gowda, Harriet Waterman, José Costa, Ken Hitchmough, Lou Milrad, Mike Sava, Mike McGrory, Milt Otter, Paul Burgener, Peter Cashmore, Rob Herold, Roly Kilpatrick, Sally Press, Steve Guerin, Vern Sulway, Walter Wardrop.
My thanks also to those organizations acknowledged, in context, above, that permit and enable access to their search sites from this page.
Last but not least, a particular word of thanks to Symtech Canada Limited for hosting this site.
for hosting this site.