• Thien is pronounced "tin" as in the metal
• Binh is pronounced "bin" as in canister or container
• Nguyen is a toughie. It's roughly pronounced "win", but to be totally correct, try to use the "ng" from "long".

Combine it all and what do you get? A mess, really. But try it anyway.

If you do mess up though, no sweat. I've heard all possible corruptions of my name. For instance:
    rin-tin-tin. Or for you Europeans, tin-tin
    tinman
    tin roof
    tin pan
    tin can
    tinner
    baboo
plus a few that I can't really repeat else programs like SURFWATCH will add my site to their no-no list.

Believe me, I've heard them all. If you think you have a new one, email it to me and if it's original, I'll add it to the list. NOTE: naughty names don't count.

• I was born in Vietnam
• but moved to the u.s.. in 1975
• and have lived most of my life in San Antonio and Houston, Texas
• but am now living in Ann Arbor, Michigan
• where I'm working at (if you couldn't already tell from the URL) Beige Bag Software.
• And that's all I'm going to say about myself. You can find out more from rummaging through my site

And to keep this from sounding like an ad from the personal section, I'm not going to include a picture or other vital stats. Everyone does that and frankly, I'm pretty sure that no one really cares that I'm single, 6'1", fit, intelligent, witty, and devastatingly handsome anyway. But if you need some help visualizing me, think Dean "superman" Cain with a dash of Robert Redford, a sprinkle of Tom Cruise, and pinch of Ralph Fiennes and you're beginning to get the picture.