I'm not narcissistic enough to think that you would clamber to read every little detail of my life. But, I would like to make some things known.

My journey into computers started with a 386, which had been given to my eldest sister. A 386 with 8 MiB of RAM, a 40 MB MFM drive, a 5 1/4 Floppy drive, a 12 inch CRT and a Partridge in a...oh wait. My Uncle gave me a copy of Upgrading and Repairing PCs 3rd edition. Then the 386 became a 586, and the 3rd edition became the 6th edition. And more recently, the 14th edition.

Eventually I amassed a large collection of old and new computers and components. But my computer collection takes a back seat to my book collection. Specifically Science Fiction from the Golden Old of SF ('40s-'60s), and mostly the works of Frank Herbert. For example, I own fourteen copies of Dune.

Interestingly enough, even though everybody thinks the name Nign is Chinese, it's not. Nign is a hebrew word for song or tune, we pronounce it 'nine' (like the number). Oddly, of all the Nigns I know not one of them is Jewish.

Oh, I'm also horribly deformed. Well, maybe not horribly. At just over a year old I burned both my hands on a hot plate. A few months later, doctors took some flesh from my inner thigh (read groinal area) and grafted it over my burns. Then in 1993 I had another surgery, the purpose of which was to take a chunk of my foot and put it on my hand. Don't believe me? Here's some pictures, Left Hand, Right Hand and Right Foot. Okay, come on ladies, where's the sympathy? I'm waitin'.

Virgin Pi (and the Pi in a circle symbol) is the signature which I slap on just about everything I do.

This website has gone through many changes. The first version was called Ken's 3D Page, but then as the site changed to be less 3D oriented it was renamed Virgin Pi (mid. 1999). "Virgin Pi" was originally a band name my Sister and I came up with while writing a screenplay. Then in the last half of 2001 came the next Virgin Pi (v3.0), it was mostly a redesign of the menu postitioning/content. Finally, in early 2004 was VP 4.0 which is the first version to use a white background (all previous versions were white text on black), VP 4.0 is also the first to be developed in something other than pure HTML. This version is being created using ASP.NET with the actual content coming from a database (the .html version is a modified static version of the site).

From left to right. VP v1.0 had no real logo, just an animated gif. - Next came the first(or v2.0) "Virgin Pi" logo. - While v3.0 was in development, the metalish(v2.9) one was used. - When no one could figure out what the "shiny thing" was, I slapped together v3.0 while hungry, thus the pie. Early 2004 brings us VP 4.0 and the simplistic black-on-white logo.