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.
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I left home early on Monday morning to go to an offsite meeting and lo and behold what do I find on my way to the railway station? A car transporter full of police cars. They were loading them up outside the Police station. What really...
We spent a relaxing week in Nannerth Fach in the Wye valley in mid Wales at the end of February 2004. It snowed quite heavily during the week and we thought we might get trapped in the cottage for a further week. Unfortunately we were...
Dave Schulthise, aka Dave Blood, bass player of the Dead Milkmen, my friend Deans band from Philly, has been found dead having taken his own life. I knew Dave from the times I was invited to roadie a Dead Milkmen tour of the East Coast...
Two marketing "muck up's" this week already! What a fine year this is going to be. First off we have the revelation that Coca Cola are using public tap water to produce it's expensive designer label Dasani, which retails at 95p per 500ml...
We went to the Small and Delighfull Narrow gauge West show in Shepton Mallet for me to indulge in a bit of narrow gauge modelling at its finest. Queing to get in was bitterly cold - a portent of the snow we were to get the following week...
As I write this I am watching the Brits which seems to have grown huge over the past few years but this year has brought in a massive amount of American stars. Obviously the UK is the place to be. So the Highlights: The Darkness winning...
At long long last we got to see The Darkness, live at Lees Cliffe Hall Folkstone after the gig was postponed from last year. Vic Reeves turned up plus entorage and I have never seen the hall so packed. The Darkness were brilliant, loud...
CDWOW have settled two weeks before the court case that the BPI brought against them for selling parallel imported music CD�s. Without going into the legalities of who is allowed to sell what to who and where, it means hike from £8.99...
I have had three tracks by millionVALVE on my iPOD since November 2003, "Million" (re-mastered), Splitter and Separate Way and every now and again they just pop up when I am playing a full shuffle and I keep meaning to pull the pod out...
Tim Berners-Lee, the English chap who literally invented the internet while working at CERN, has been honored for his work in the Queens new year Honors list with a knighthood. Bloomberg ran the story first. The England Rugby team have...
Merry Christmas to all our visitors from Simon and Paula! We hope you are having as good a time as we are today. I have taken some pictures with my new tiny digital camera which you can find here.
Images from the Rugby World Cup Parade through London. Just had these images in from my mate Nick and his mate Chris. Nick was at ground zero in Regent street and Chris was perched on high. I watched on tv on my pc at work - fantastic...
Every other day when I get to work the cleaners have cleaned my desk. This is great and a brilliant service except that they move everything on my desk to do the cleaning and don't "put it back where they found it" - a long held...
So here we go again the Tube drivers are about to go on strike again because of fears of safety. This means that more people will be travelling by road which has a higher death rate than the railways which means that for commuters it...
Last night Paula, Chris, Liz and I went to see what I consider to be the "Rock Opera of the Year" - Muse live at Wembley. And what a fantastic night! The first support were awful and fortunately I have no idea who they were. The second...