The Homepage of Simon Lewis

Me at the memorial to Captain James Cook, Whitby, North Yorkshire.

Hi, and welcome to my homepage! This page gives some brief information about me.

Work

I am the managing director of a small IT consultancy based in North Yorkshire, England. We develop bespoke software for the public, private and academic sectors, specialising in Microsoft products.

Play

I am interested in the following things (amongst others):

Mountain biking, hiking and walking Industrial archaeology I am also a Microsoft MVP.

Contact Me

Please post technical questions to the newsgroups.

Please address other queries to: simonlewis@technologist.com

Links

Below is a selection of links that you may or may not find interesting (in no particular order):

• http://www.mvps.org/access - the Access Web, the best site for Access hints and tips.
• http://search.support.microsoft.com/kb/c.asp - the Microsoft Knowledge Base, a gold mine.
• http://msdn.microsoft.com - the Microsoft Developer Network site. Lots of good stuff.
• http://www.vso.org.uk - VSO: helping to make the world a better place.
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/ - BBC News: the best current affairs website going.
• http://grc.com/ - Gibson Research Corporation, run by the only person mad enough to write Windows applications in machine code.
• http://www.theregister.co.uk - IT news from the British point of view.
• http://www.2600.com/ - the hacker's quarterly.
• http://cryptome.org/ - find out what they don't want you to know. Excellent, but worrying.
• http://www.pancanal.com/eng/photo/camera-java.html - the Panama Canal webcam. Pity it always seems to be raining.
• http://morningtoncrescent.org/ - Play 'Mornington Crescent' online. You'll soon get the hang of it.
• http://www.harbour.sfu.ca/~hayward/van/van.html - for Van Morrison fans.
• http://www.lemuria.org/DeCSS/ - get your DVD descrambler here, and help stick up for your rights.
• http://www.intelplay.com/products/qx3/ - The Intel computer microscope - great fun!
• http://diamond.boisestate.edu/gas/ - the Gilbert and Sullivan archive. Libretti, MIDI files, history etc.
• http://www.nasa.gov - the NASA website. Excellent stuff.
• http://tv.cream.org/ - the best and worst of British TV.
• http://www.private-eye.co.uk - Private Eye: Colemanballs, St. Albions, pseuds corner and the rest…