Simon Cox
Simon Cox
Simon Cox
Hello – this is my personal website. I bring you a smattering of articles to read, images to soak in while you wander about the web and a few thoughts to ponder on while you drink your tea in the short articles section.
Latest Posts
The Dead Milk men are rehearsing for the forthcoming Dave Schulthise tribute concerts in Philadelphia. Dean sent me a couple of links to a citypaper.net article about their rehearsals and some little know snippets about Dead Milkmen...
I had recently been getting some odd comments to this site and it's not just me, Ben and Dave have as well. I checked out the domains and there are no websites sites and no clues from the registrations - other than no clues means...
Getting nice and silly now!
I got comment spammed a lot today by some idiot trying to promote her Texas Holdem Poker casino site. (Its a rubbish site in my opinion) I spent 10 minutes dealing with the spam that was trying to boost Michale Gawat's web site. The plan...
There is loads of web coverage this year so I will pick out a few British feeds in the hope that those in the USA will read some balanced reporting - Fox stating that Kerry was ahead yesterday seems to be a ruse to get Bush voters to the...
I reported the link to Sitescore at Silktide yesterday in my sideblog but wanted to do a fuller report today having been through the service a little more. I did notice that the site has become difficult to access over the past 18 hours...
Just had an e-mail from Google telling me that they are adding a new service into the search engine. You will now be able to search inside printed books. I assume they will be scanning all the books into a database. Very interesting....
I surprised Paula last night with a little present for her birthday in November. We are of to LA, Fiji, New Zealand and Singapore for a holiday. She hasn't stopped jumping up and down while clapping her hands yet! I am going to try and...
I have just added my RSS feed to Feedburner because of the amazing variety of options it allows for feeds. If you are one of the people subscribing to my RSS feeds you could pick up the Feedburner feed instead as it will be richer in...
I purchased Simon Peggs Shaun of the Dead on Monday night and Paula and I watched it last night. I really wanted to go and see this at the cinema although I am not a horror fan at all but on reflection I was quite glad we did not. The...
I have decided to add a second side blog to the site. This one is about my daily train journeys to Canary Wharf and back. I'm doing it because I want to keep a record of how abysmal our railway system really is and how it is affecting my...
I use Google Alerts quite a bit, a most excellent tool, but today I had reason to change one of them from 'as it happens' to 'daily report' - I was getting too many alerts on one particular subject. I tried to log in unsucessfully to...
Barmy Steve Ballmer from Microsoft has decided has decided to shorten his stay on planet sensible and has gone to live with the fairies. In a completely outrageous slur aimed at Apple he commented in London at a press conference: "The...
So why do Vodaphone need to put a mobile telephone phone mast at South Croydon Railway Station? Everyone I know gets a good signal from Vodaphone in the area so why are they doing it? Well it looks like the people on the trains coming up...
Recently brandchannel.com reviewed a commercial web site that I have spent the past five years dramatically improving. The site in question now conforms to WAI AA standards, is fully CSS driven, has a crisp conservative design that...