Viktor Austin Olliver, born Victor Austin Olliver 8-Mar-64 of  Peter Austin Olliver and his Mum.

 Went under the name "Hairy  Hacker" for a while, and has since fled the UK to New Zealand.Vik is half English, half Austrian, and half mad. He has been shot at, blown  up, nearly drowned, set on fire, run over, lost count of broken bones, crashed  on a bike, crashed in a car, crashed on a train, been in a plane that got  struck by lightning, been poisoned, stabbed, dropped off a cliff (twice),  survived internal haemoraging, been thrown out of a hospital, and joined  to CIX, but not simultaneously. He is also the teensiest bit paranoid.

He can change a nappy, plan an invasion, butcher animals, steer a ship, design  a building, write poetry, solve equations, lay bricks, set bones, comfort the  dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, analyse problems, pitch  manure, program a computer, shoot straight, cook a tasty meal, fight  efficiently, die gallantly, and believes that specialisation is for insects. Probably why he joined the Laingholm Fire Brigade as a medic.

In years long gone by he went to both the Cathedral School and Bishop Wordsworth's School in Salisbury, Wiltshire. He seems none the worse for either. If anyone knows of the whereabouts of Mathew Bunsell or Dave Collins from Bishop's, please get them in contact with him.

Tolerating his presence in the pleasant remnants of his New Zealand home are a  most pleasant wife, Suz (please release my testicle now, darling); the two  rug-rats Kate (10) and Tammy (9); and cats Bruno and Padung. The proud & pedigree  Burmese, Lieutenant Sky Raider unfortunately met his demise on 8th July 1998, the equally proud & pedigree Chocolate Burmese 'Pipmo Golden Padung' arrived in late November.

Vik served 7 years of a sentence with Alfa Systems  Ltd., purveyors of the Diskfax (the what?). For some reason various  computer magazines keep publishing his prattlings, so that's probably  where you saw the name. Right now he works for ECONZ in New Zealand, who do computerised dispatch systems. He programs anything from Palm Pilots to 200-user QNX systems, but does raytraced graphics by preference. Astronomy is a favourite hobby, especially in the southern hemisphere.

Anyone involved in raytraced graphics, cybernetics, virtual reality and/or  space exploration with UKP55,000 pa to spare could change my place of  employment. In New Zealand, that is. There are a few images and a client list here and some  spacey raytraced graphics for a sample of images he can produce. One day he'll be running the show, so you can either profit by it or eat his dust.

He is 5'10" tall, lots of dark hair, no beer gut, muscles where  required, carries a large amount of useful junk around, and is a handy  guy to have around in a bundle: he goes to pieces so fast, people get hit  by the shrapnel.

He'd write a book if he thought anyone would read it, and finally plans to die  at the age of 98; shot by a jealous lover.

Likes:

• Wife & kids (honest!)
• Being contradictory
• My P150 when it works
• Black leather and studs
• Cats
• Survivalism
• Watching things go bang
• Nanotechnology
• His little twin nieces Becky and Laura, and the recent arrival Emma
• Linux

Dislikes:

• Being shot at, blown up, nearly drowning, being set on fire, run over, breaking bones, crashing bikes, trains, being poisoned, stabbed, or being dropped off a cliff in any way.
• The government of the day
• People referring to my Spanish ancestry by the word "Spic".
• Being contradictory
• Bad speling
• My P150 when it doesn't work
• Twats who think survivalism is about killing people
• Bangs that hurt people
• Microsoft

Beliefs:

• The law: "And it harm none, do what you will."
• Drugs should be legalised, sold after signing a disclaimer.
• G.K. O'Neil was the most visionary man of the century.
• Freeman Dyson came second.
• If you can't kill it, don't eat it.
• "Normal" is a phrase used by those scared of variety.
• Complete freedom of speech
• There's something in cold fusion

"Every time someone says 'I believe in freedom of speech except for...' then a little bit of freedom falls down dead."
- After J.M. Barrie

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