Dia's bio

Dia came alive online in 2001 but her physical counterpart, me, has been around for quite longer. Born at the end of year 1970, at a suburb of Athens, Greece, of Greek, Spanish and Celtic heritage, I have been lucky to have received a global education in Science, Math and Literature, the latter in both Greek and English.

My science was, is and will always be Biology, especially the Molecular kind. My interests, scientifically, lie in Cancer Biology, understanding the way the host tissue reacts and crosstalks with the malignant cells. The realm of Physics was my next-to-best passion and still lingers around in the form of nuclear, astronomy and optics- occasional burst of interest.

A traveler, by nature and nurture, I have been in a number of places in Europe, Africa and America while Asia still eludes me. Photography, a taste acquired early in my life, has been memorable companion throughout these journeys. For no specific reasons I lacked a scanner from my possessions for a very long time, condition I corrected this winter (2005) buying a nice Cannon 4200F. First thing scanned? A napkin with a little doodle on that a Greek friend gave to me and my best other half for our anniversary. She got us a real present too.

The turn of the century found me in the New World and specifically at the East Coast, where I currently reside. In February of the year 2000, crossing an intersection on Cottman ave and something else street, right after the I-95 ramp, PA, saw a billboard announcing the upcoming release of a sci-fi movie called Pitch Black. Unknown actors to me, but a catchy phrase ("You are not afraid of the dark, are you?"), a very well put trailer and the promise of an enticing storm drove me to the cinema and to the realm of intense fandom.

I wasn't a total newbie as fans go. Before "Riddick" there was "Mulder" and before him "Indy", and the "Terminator" always, but I never got caught up so much. In 2001, breaking my final inhibitions, I signed up on an ezboard community called "The Unofficial Vin Diesel Fan Club". Although the internet is infamous of being a place for negativity, stalking and bad spam, I met and found dear friends, trustworthy people with whom I maintain real life contact through telephone and mail.

Being present at the birth of the vibrant, wild group of the KAGs and being inspired by the adventures created and the energy they emitted, I put together the first KAG site to host and hold their fiction. Very simply done with minimum resources, mainly notepad and then later Netscape composer, was the teaching lab for my next endeavors.

Web graphics design, that I enjoy the most, and web layouts go hand in hand. Self-taught html, currently learning javascript and cascade style sheet scripting, I have since made three versions (counting this one) of my personal site as Dia, two versions of my personal site as my real life identity (sorry can't say..hehe), a professional site for a friend, the second version of the KAG site (in process) and another related creature that will spawn right after.

Ezboards are a pleasure to remodel providing their servers work. I maintain two of my own, KAGville and KAGville Imperium and I like adding little graphics and tweaking a bit here and there and from time to time, to just change the living daylights out of them. I also enjoy moderating, especially when I hold places dear. I used to moderate 4 of the forums at the UVDFC board – the reason for it all as I described above– which is the "fan site for the fans" of Vin Diesel, couple more at another fave, the Poetry Cafe board –a must for fresh poetry with an erotic flavor– and one at Ink Slingers but due to time constraints I had to step down. Major bummer!

One thing you got to realize about UVDFC and KAGville is that they are not ordinary. Yeah, of course the former is a fan club and the latter is ...unique, but they are home to some of the finest authors out there. Published or unpublished their keyboards take fire when they put pixels to words. Providing the best on hands education for aspiring writers, two of my online buddies created the magnificent Ink Slingers, Inc. an elegant, resourceful writers hub that spells home to many literary talents.

Among the things I was not taught to believe growing up, was that I had some writing talent in me. I remember my composition teachers always telling me how laconic I was. And they were right. Truth is, I don't beat around the bush. Still, since I remember myself I have been always day dreaming and role playing, alone at first, later with friends and now online. I have some ten works in progress. I blame time restrains (yes, again) because the inspiration is always there. Some of these stories are complete up here (I am pointing to my head right now) since puberty. They burn to get out. Luckily, two short stories managed to etch their way through. One is based on characters I know in real, non-web, life and the other on Hellboy.

What is it with me and sci-fi? Hard to find the film that will stimulate, satisfy and fulfill my expectations to ultimate extend. Sometimes is the script, or the direction or the acting, or everything together that end up disappointing me, see Underworld or Alien Resurrection, not to go to Matrix 2 and 3. So, when I do watch a captivating specimen, I am thrilled. In 2000 was Pitch Black, four years later the wise cracking, cocky and overall amazing Hellboy. Two hours after I got home from the cinema, I sat in front of the desktop, and for the next 6 hours (editing, visiting the kitchen and stretching included) I wrote a short erotica fan fic inspired by the main characters. Then, I went to sleep satisfied...or well, at least, spent.

I am no longer deep in Red's fandom, and lately I have been, almost, completely free of obsessions, although I did find Tim Daly as the Outsider quite enticing. I might have something in hand for that individual too. There is hardly anything online, and we need to remedy that.

I do hope that you will enjoy this place. There is a lot of me put into it, and tenfold thought from technical aspects to content. For more everyday me, don't forget to check my blog or should I say, confession stall. You can find me online in KAGville, UVDFC, The Poetry Cafe and Ink Slingers.