Personally
I spent many years working in education IT, and have done a few other things too – working for a summit sales outfit proved to me that hardcore telesales isn't my forte – and I'm now setting out on my own. Having learned a lot of stuff over the years, a key thing is that people have stuff they don't know how to use, so help in plain English is pretty useful. So that's what I'm doing. More on this at my Inglenot site
For a long time as a kid, I was heavily into acting. Due to
having fun with things I shouldn't have in my twenties, this
faded. There was a brief revival in the early nineties, but kids
and work got in the way. However, now I've got into it
again. Not only that, but I've built a website for the group to
which I belong. They're called Taunton Thespians, and the site is
http://www.tauntonthespians.org.uk. It's quite old-school just now, but we'll move it on soon.
My wife, Jenny, and I separated, so the domain name has become a bit redundant, but it's been around so long and so many people have my email address it's a pain to change. She's written a bunch of pantomimes and one-act plays and has a mailbox here, so jenny at lewisgilbert dot
co dot uk will get through. For her publisher, go to LazyBees
scripts. The first script online is Sherlock Holmes, the Panto, with more to
follow.
RISC OS Stuff
I've put up some old RISC OS discs as zip files. With natural
lack of whatever and a taste in bad puns, this is called Archiology. This will, when I get a
bit more server space, expand and have disc images as well. Which
is happening, slowly. I've now added a spreadsheet of prices from
Xemplar in 1998. It's interesting for historical reasons only,
and is available in Excel 4 and CSV format, zipped together as
AcornPrices.zip This is just the Acorn bit of
the whole list; the Apple stuff available too if anyone is
interested. I'll see if I can find earlier lists.
Other RISC OS Stuff
Once upon a time, I installed a lot of Acorn Access based
peer-to-peer networks. As one does, I worked out ways of
automating and simplifying the process. I've now put it all up on
here in an Acorn Access space.
Random
I needed to work out the dosage of chemicals to add to a
hexagonal fish tank. Couldn't find a formula, but found one for
the area of a hexagon. Volume = area x height, so here it is. That's a tiny little Excel4 file,
BTW.
If you're here because you're looking for stuff about Lewis
Gilbert the film director, sorry. This site is named from my
wife's maiden name and my surname. If you want more information on the genius
behind Alfie, Educating Rita, Reach for the Sky, Shirley
Valentine, You Only Live Twice and loads more, there's a load on the fan
site at http://www.lewisgilbert.info