I
was born in 1952 and now live in Central Brittany, in France. Before that, I lived just outside Newport
in the Isle
of Wight from 1996 to 2007; previously, I had lived in Oxford since
1970, when I came up to Exeter College.
I
was born in 1952 and now live in Central Brittany, in France. Before that, I lived just outside Newport
in the Isle
of Wight from 1996 to 2007; previously, I had lived in Oxford since
1970, when I came up to Exeter College.
I'm a Christian. This page gives some of the reasons why.
As of July 2003 I have left the institutional church altogether. Here are some of the reasons.
I'm a Chartered Accountant, but in 1979 I discovered computers! Now I do computer consultancy. I know PICK and Unix (and DOS and Windows under protest). I have programmed in assembler, BASIC, C and Eiffel. My particular skill is diagnosing problems.
I run my own company, LFIX Limited.
I use the Linux operating system, rather than DOS or Windows. Since the beginning of 1997 I have been using Debian GNU/Linux, which is particularly good because of its packaging structure. For ten years I was a maintainer for some of the packages that make it up, especially PostgreSQL and SmallEiffel. Most recently I have been using a Debian derivative, Ubuntu.
My email address is olly@lfix.co.uk.
If you want to send me anything encrypted, I have a GnuPG key.
The name Elphick is not very common. As far as I know, it is Saxon, and means elf-high. I think this was meant as a joke: we tend to be tall (unlike elves).
I think the family originated in Sussex. Nowadays, the highest concentration of the name is in Sussex and the home counties of England, but there are Elphicks all over the world. I am attempting to create a family tree
Ruth is my wife, and our children are
Please join the campaign against European software patents.
Last updated on 2nd July 2003 by Oliver
Elphick