Lowell Gilbert

This page isn't very fancy; it's really just the places I want to visit. I use it as the default page with which to start my web browser. That is, it's really my "home" page. [Actually, by default I skip everything up to the technical links.]

This page is intended to be readable with any browser. It does not use any enhancements that are particular to a specific browser. This doesn't mean it will work perfectly on every browser, because they're all buggy. It does mean that I use a minimum of inline graphics, and provide alternative text for each. I consider this page a tool, and try to limit its contents to meaningful content or useful links.

Quick Index

[Me] [Tech] [Reference] [Boston] [My Friends] [My Interests]

I'm married and have a child and live in a nice suburb of Boston.

I am an embedded systems programmer, and mostly work on forwarding the Internet Protocol. I am one of the inventors on patent number 6,003,077. In various ways, I've been doing data forwarding in networking devices for a number of years now, at a bunch of failed startups. These days, I'm doing it for Ericsson, the Swedish wireless-phone giant, where I work for the Redback subsidiary.

I have a separate page to list places I've been. I also have a Livejournal and a Facebook account, and a LinkedIn account and on and on.

Actual Web content I maintain (as opposed to most of this page, which is merely links):

The family photo album.

A random selection from my personal fortune cookie file.

My computer configuration tricks for FreeBSD, and X-based desktop, as well as some shell scripts I've found useful in that environment.

Various things I wrote.

My collection of compact disks.

Technical Links that I find useful:

Reference Material

Boston-area stuff:

Libraries:

[Acton Memorial] [West Acton Citizens] [Minuteman Catalog] [Merrimack Valley Catalog] [Mass. Library Information Network] [Littleton] [Chelmsford]

Schools and classes:

[R.J. Grey Jr. High] [Acton Public Schools] [Congregation Beth Elohim (CBE)] [closings (via Ch. 5)] [UMass Lowell] [UML designcamp] [Dance Caliente]

Museums:

[Museum of Science] [Discovery Museums] [Harvard Museum of Natural History] [National Heritage] [Children's] [Fine Arts (MFA)] [DeCordova] [Higgins (Armory)]

Transport:

[MBTA] [Lowell Commuter Rail] [Fitchburg/So. Acton Commuter Rail] [SmartTraveler] [MassDOT Blog]

Public Broadcasting:

[WGBH 89.7, 2, and 44] [WBUR 90.9] [New Hampshire Public TV 11] [New Hampshire Public Radio] [WFCR (Amherst) 88.5] [PBS] [NPR]

Favorite local businesses:

• Bookstore: Willow Books
• Bicycles: Pedal Power
• Games: Three Trolls Games and Puzzles,

Friends and Ilk:

Hobbies, Interests, and Assorted Random Pointers:

I play a lot of board games, occasionally including the ones in my own board game collection. And (technically not a board game) I own a Twilight Zone pinball machine. I also own a Taylor dreadnought guitar, which I bought in the spring of 2000 from the Music Emporium in Lexington, MA.

I used to maintain a Web page for the RiverFolk Concert Series at the Blackstone River Theatre in Cumberland, RI, but they do it themselves now. Closer to my current home, there's a list of Boston Area coffeehouses.

Baseball: [Boston Red Sox] [Pawtucket Red Sox] [Lowell Spinners]

Hockey: schedules for: [UMass Lowell] [Boston University]

WWW Virtual Library: Beer & Brewing.
Local Brew stores: [HomeBrew Emporium (Cambridge)] [Beer and Wine Hobby (Woburn)]

The Constitution of the United States, the Bill of Rights and the rest of the amendments.

My CD collection. Radio Theatre from [ZBS], [Full Cast Audio] (Bruce Coville et. al.). SF Story podcasts: [Escape Pod] and [StarShipSofa]. Reviews and links at [SFFaudio].

Shakespeare: [Complete works] [British Library Quartos]

The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (1898), Francis James Child.

My collection of SCA and SF (Society for Creative Anachronism and Speculative/Science Fiction) links.

You can reach me at: webmaster@be-well.ilk.org.

last modified: 11:14am, Saturday, 31 Jul 2010 by Lowell Gilbert.