Personally
I do stuff with school computers. Sell them, mostly, although
that's a bit pat. Going into a school you've never been to before
and looking over what they have can be very interesting. Trying
to frame a comment so that they aren't offended by your
opinion of what they've spent vast amount of money on can be even
more interesting.
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 (2006) 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
My wife, Jenny, works in our office and writes. Quite well, if
truth be told. If you want a pantomime or kids play written, drop
us a line. She 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.
The latest addition to her published oeuvre is Journey of a
Plastic Bag. This is a play for children, suitable for Years 5
and 6 (England and Wales) or P6 and 7 (Scotland and NI). Nine to
eleven years old, basically. It's also on LazyBees,
so go and take a look.
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