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
It is 1pm and in two hours our annual Garden party starts. We have nearly everything ready that we can think of, oh I just remembered something else, and Paula has just gone to get the food. The drinks should be arriving in the next...
CSS Cookbook by Christopher Schmitt arrived yesterday and I ploughed through it last night. This is a good book that will appeal to both new CSS dabblers and hardened cynics alike. CSS Cookbook by Christopher Schmitt arrived yesterday...
I have just spotted Richard Branson abseiling down the North East corner or Number 1 Canada Square - the Tower with the pointy roof. When I say abseil he wasn't lowering himself down a rope using proper abseiling gear, he wasn't bouncing...
Earlier on today I realised that I had not got around to finishing off the commenting on this site properly. I had fallen asleep at the keyboard one night and forgotten to finish what I was doing. This explains why I have not had many...
I noticed something interesting when I was using Bloglines this morning, both Erick Meyers site and Mark Pilgrims use the same fav icon. Now why is that? Is it like a secret mark of the 'web standards in crowd' or has one of them just...
If you design and build websites, like what I does, one of the best reason for changing you browser to Firefox isn't the standards compatability, isn't the superb syncronise bookmarks extension, it is the Web Developer extension...
In the last build of my Blog I had a side panel that allowed users to translate the entire site into a number of languages. The idea was that I could reach out to more people. Translating your Blog In the last build of my Blog I had a...
Someone has tried to post a comment on my site that was a full html advert for some kids micro scooters - essentially a site map of burningcar(dot)net sitting inside my comments. This takes the biscuit. Someone using the e-mail address...
There's an interesting experiment going on to test how ideas ('memes') zip around the internet. The idea is to post a blog entry and get others to post the same entry. By doing this in a systematic way, it should be possible to track the...
Nova Spivack has produced a second version of his Meme project already. This time he has expanded the payback to all other sites that join in. If you are reading this and have a blog please do join in by following the instructions below!...
It looks like researchers have discovered that the lack of oxygen suffered by climbers at altitude can be counteracted by Viagra - hence the cheeky headline. Just spotted a brilliant story over at the beeb: Viagra 'protects climbers'...
Whoops. Impulse purchase last night on the way home. Can't afford it and I don't care! The Bug is a digital radio which means that it picks up the new digital radio broadcasts - including a test channel with wood pigeons and rooks in a...
I pre ordered Zatoichi a while back and we watched it last night. Paula was not sure she wanted to see this film but ended up thoroughly enjoying it. Me too! Itâs about a legendary blind sword master who travels as a masseuse around...
Following an IAAF Extraordinary meeting yesterday USA track athlete Jerome Young has had all his results annulled from 26th June 1999 to 25th June 2001. This includes his participation in the men's 4x400 relay which the USA won gold at...
A friend asked me today what she should do about getting broadband as her area has no cable and they are over six miles from the nearest telephone exchange. Satellite was the obvious answer but for a normal residential solution it's...