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Roger Pearse
Software consultant
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About Roger Pearse
Work
I'm a freelance software consultant, which means that I do work developing
and maintaining systems for
various companies, usually with Java and web services, an Oracle database somewhere in the
mix, and often any technology that happens to be around.
In Real Life
- My home is in Ipswich, in Suffolk.
- I went to Merton College, Oxford.
- My main current interest is in manuscripts and the transmission of texts
from antiquity. I'm very interested in ways to get medieval and
ancient manuscripts online.
- I collect joke books. And Fred Bassett books. But since I don't live in Dilbert-land any
more, I've given up on Dilbert. Trouble is, after you've been on holiday a month, even the
ones that you normally think are funny seem a bit sad, really. I'd love to be able to
cartoon - I have a visual imagination - but I'm never going to have the time.
- I'm the author of QuickLatin, a
trialware Latin-to-English translation assistant program.
- Longer ago I also contributed to the WinVN
Newsreader project (although the BT email address given on those pages is now out of
date).
- I'm a Christian.
- My childhood was spent growing up in all sorts of odd places (Aden, Hong Kong,
Norfolk...) and so I try to travel when I can.
- I've been to Egypt four times so far, and am interested in Egyptology and the ancient
world.
- I'm interested in the ancient writer and satirist Tertullian -
click here for some pages about him.
- My other main project is the Additional
Fathers collection of out-of-copyright English translations of the
fathers not otherwise online.
- My leisure reading includes a lot of science-fantasy novels, and a certain amount of verse. I
won't threaten to read my verse at you! I'm also a compulsive reader
of patrologies -- handbooks of early Christian writers.
Ambition
To go round the world, stopping at those bits that are interesting, but without
sustaining any damage to any of my insurance policies (especially the life and critical
injury ones).
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