Infrequently Asked Questions

Q: Who are you?
[Andrew Turnbull] A: My name is Andrew Turnbull.

I'm originally from the small town of Athens, West Virginia; although my family ties skew heavily towards the upper midwest and nowadays I call Wisconsin my home. I forged my education in the history of the visual arts at WVU, and have also studied accounting as an additional field in the University of Wisconsin system. I am flexible and willing to relocate.

I am a secular humanist, a gay man, and an atheist. (Or, as Rhode Island state representative Peter G. Palumbo thinks, an "evil little thing.") I have interests in photography, music, cycling, esoteric subjects, and logical analysis of facts. I still do most of my work on a Windows PC; though I'd like to successfully transition to BSD or Linux someday.

Q: Can I call you "Andy?"
A: I'd rather you didn't.

Q: Are you head of the Civil Service in the United Kingdom?
A: No. International political dignitary (and notorious climate denialist) Sir Andrew Turnbull was head of the UK Home Civil Service and Cabinet Secretary in the British Government from 2002 until his retirement in summer 2005. My website for a time was the number one Google search result for his name, and I got some interesting e-mail out of that!

Q: How can I contact you electronically?
A: You can e-mail me feedback and other correspondence here.
My AOL Instant Messenger and ICQ handles are andrewt3660 and 300868519, if you're into that sort of thing.

Q: Are you on Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube?
A: No.

Q: How did you create this site?
A: I code all HTML (and CSS) by hand, using a text editor. For the last few years, my preferred application has been a feature-rich (albeit abandoned) editor for Windows called Notespad. I've started working in a little bit of PHP here and there; however, since active pages are more difficult to maintain than static, I've kept it to a minimum. For my own amusement, I phased out most deprecated markup and converted the pages to XHTML.

Q: How long has your site been online?
A: The Andrew Turnbull Network first went live on December 23, 2002. I cringe admitting this, but it started on GeoCities.

Q: Is it just me, or does your website have absolutely no coherent theme?
A: *sigh* Well, I suppose that's one of the perils of having too many interests. At the last time I seriously tried to sort and decant it, the major sections were the (peculiarity that is the) License Plate Gallery, the Mozilla Network, and a little old Third Eye Blind fansite called Lost A Whole Year. After my Firefox enthusiasm waned from version 2.0 and half the members of the aforementioned band were fired or left to disappear off the face of the earth, the latter two sections became more or less suspended in an abyss of time, and subsequent content additions were a free-for-all.

Much of my enthusiasm over the last three years has shifted to photographic documentation. You can see more of that on my Flickr page.

Q: What features are you thinking of adding to your personal web site?
A: Often, I find myself answering this question with a vague, no-promises-made answer. However, I have been brainstorming potential content additions in a number of different miscellanea:

Pages devoted to roads and highways. I've always been interested in transportation, and there are plenty of facets to this topic that would make good grounds for expounding upon on a site.
Delving into my photo archives and creating "gallery pages" devoted to documenting specific forms of commercial architecture and transportation infrastructure.
Technical data about matrix information left by Compact Disc manufacturing facilities. (Hey, it interests me!)

Q: Won't you tell me anything else? There's so much I want to know.
A: Sorry. That's all for now...

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