Ade Rixon was born in
Warrington in May 1970. After five years studying and working at
Aberystwyth University, he
joined Elsevier Science in
Oxford but left when it suddenly occurred to him that he could.
Following a spell as a consultant for
Grenville Consulting, he
undertook a confidential role in sales support with
RSi Solutions, attempting to
discover what "RSi" stood for and what he was supposed to be doing.
Although not religious, he worries that this has tarnished his soul.
He then spent too many wasted years working for a major UK ebrokerage in
Manchester which he cannot name to protect partly himself, in case their
customers are reading this, but mainly others, in case the FSA is reading
this. In 2008, together with his wife Mary-Lou
and two exceedingly wilful daughters, he loaded up his truck and moved to
Pontypridd (hills, that is. Swimming pools. Movie stars.) He now pushes
Linux commands eight hours a day - and preferably no more - for cash, not
love.
Sometimes he feels like this. When plied
with ale, he describes himself as a "postmodern renaissance man for
the ironic age"; feeding this into a spell checker produced "beer-drinking
troglodyte".
He remains singularly difficult to appreciate fully, and most people
gave up trying long ago.
