You've stumbled into the website of Mark Turner.  Who am I?  A registered professional engineer.  My best use of spare time?  Remodeling our house.  My most questionable use of spare time?  Digital camera, computers and websites.

2007 Entries:

I've added a Google SketchUp model of Dealey Plaza.

Archive.Org now has the USGS topo quadrangles online.  I'm adding an easy-to-use listing so you can download them for free.  It's a work-in-progress so may take a while.

2006 Entries:

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!  I hope to work on the site a bit harder this coming year.  It wouldn't take much to beat this year!

If you're an engineer or draftsman, I'd suggest checking out the new freebie from Google:  SketchUp.

At the moment, I am doing most of my updating on the Drupal pages.  It's much easier than firing up the HTML editing program.

Video hosting websites are really taking off, it seems.  I can't imagine how they're making a profit, but there's some fun, weird, interesting stuff to watch.  Unfortunately, you have to sort through a lot of junk to find it.  Check out my list of video websites.

I'm experimenting with Drupal and an online photo album.  Actually, you can share other types of files, too (music, video, etc).

New Toy:  An Apple iPod Nano.  Pretty neat little gizmo.  I really don't like iTunes, though.  I much prefer the easy method of copying music to my Samsung rather than the silly Apple software.  Thanks to my wife for the incredible birthday gift!!

New Toy:  Samsung 913T 19" LCD monitor.  I don't see it listed on Amazon, but they do have the amazingly similar 915N.  A lot of electronic companies sell the same item under multiple model numbers.  Why?  I suspect it's entirely so you can't take advantage of those ads that say "we'll beat any advertised price for the same model!"  Of course you can't beat the deal when they're the only store that sell that particular model, even though it's absolutely identical to the one in the cheaper store.  Anyway, it's a great monitor and I owe many thanks to my wonderful wife!

Well, I've been really lazy with the website lately!  Hmmm, here's a music suggestion:  Rosanne Cash's "Black Cadillac."  Yeah, that doesn't sound like my usual rock type pick, but then I don't think I'd really classify this CD as country, anyway.  Incredible album!

2005 Entries:

Check out this hilarious flash animation of Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Added link to hilarious Photoshop contest results.

Added some new links.  SwankSigns.org, BoingBoing.Net and Yamaha's Papercraft.

Check out i-hacked.com for some interesting reading!  Then do some site-seeing on Google Maps.

Added old postcards and a collector's plate of the Land of Oz.

Added lots of panoramas.

Added a review of the Samsung YP-T6 MP3 Player.  It's about the size of your thumb and can hold hundreds of songs.

Check out my friend's band at JCBCMusic.com.

Added photos, ticket scans and stories to my concert page.

2004 Entries:

Tune in to the Mark Turner WebCam!  It's experimental and probably won't be online too much, at this time.  From time to time, I'll aim it out the window or something and let it take some photos.  I've had the web cam for ages and never made much use of it, so maybe I'll give it some usage.  A DSL internet connection sure would make it easier to keep online!

Check out Mars Unearthed for great 3D photos of Mars.  These will require the red-blue 3D glasses (you've probably seen them with comic books) but the results are really cool.

Do you want to make a backup copy of a DVD you bought?  Check out the my method about how it's done.  This tutorial has been updated due to new additions to the available free software.

Are you looking for a nice audio program for multi-track work?  Check out Audacity.  I use it to cleanup live recordings.  Take a live tape and digitize it.  Don't worry about breaks between songs.  With Audacity, you can break the recording into multiple tracks (each can be stereo).  Then "slide" the tracks so the between-song breaks aren't so long.  Do a fade-out on the ending track as you fade-in the next.  Cool stuff!

2003 Entries:

My current media picks:  Be sure to check out the new DVD release of "The Beatles Anthology" and Ringo's new CD "Ringorama."

Mike Oldfield has completely re-recorded his classic album "Tubular Bells" with the imaginative title "Tubular Bells 2003."  You can get it with and without a bonus DVD (but it looks like the bonus version is cheaper).  Apparently he has wanted to re-do the album for at least 20 years but been contractually banned from doing so until recently.  Over the years, Mike has done various albums that were inspired by his most commercially successful work.  These include "Tubular Bells II," "Tubular Bells III," "Millennium Bells" and "Orchestral Tubular Bells."  "Exposed" has a live version, too.  Plus, there's a "Best of Tubular Bells" with parts of the various versions.  There's also a collection called "Complete Tubular Bells" that combines II, III and 2003.  I've read the new 2003 version is coming out in a surround sound version, also.

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