Welcome

Welcome to the newly redesigned devilsbsd.net! The redesign is a work-in-progress, many of the main pages are done but the gallery and blog are still having problems.

Because the gallery isn't working for now, I've made the photography section link to my Picasa page, where I store many of the photos I take. My blog is also undergoing some heavy-duty redesign, so its appearance hasn't been updated to reflect the latest and greatest Devil's BSD design.

So stay a while, browse around, and feel free to drop me an email if you like what you see!

~The Cyber Ninja

About Me

I'm Roger Chui, a.k.a. "Cyber Ninja", and this site is just one of my many creative outlets! I am working on an undergraduate degree in bioinformatics at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky and getting a minor in music performance.

I am Chinese by descent, but I was born and raised in Lexington, Kentucky. I'm actually pretty tired of living in Lexington. I've spent my entire life here, and can't wait to get out! I recently took the MCAT, and I am now in the process of applying to medical schools. We'll see how that goes and where it takes me.

My knowledge is mostly technical; I provide private computer/IT consulting services, program computers, and love to tinker with gadgets. I work with Linux and Windows and Apple networks, and know C++ and PERL fluently.

A lot of my creative work is done on the computer; I do freelance web design work, video editing/special effects, photo manipulation, and graphic design. I also do freelance photography, mainly for a group of amazing friends that I cosplay with. We call ourselves Project Cosplay - but we're about so much more than cosplay!

I also play the violin. I used to play with the UK Symphony Orchestra, and have performed with Arlo Guthrie, Lynn Harrell, and have played at Carnegie Hall. More recently, I have been learning anime and video game-related performance pieces and have performed on stage at Ohaycon!

About The Site

This is the third major revision of my website. In this redesign, I'm trying again to make the appearance of the site more lightweight, minimalistic, and aesthetically pleasing. I guess I'm finally (consciously) making the transition to Web 2.0!

Behind the scenes, I'm also trying to make it even more modular and efficient than the previous design, through heavier use of server-side includes and less spurious dynamic content. I thought one of the weaknesses of the old site design was that it tended to be inefficient in both use of screen real estate and php code. Hopefully with this design, it will be flexible enough to make future facelifts a lot simpler.

The top image in the title is a picture of Mars southern ice cap in the wintertime. It has been taken and modified from an original NASA image.