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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Sales of Rock music have beaten the pop market for the first time ever - 'Rock's on a Roll' Evening Standard. Rock has 31% of the market and pop only 30%. The dramatic decline of pop is being blamed on the file swapping hordes of the...
Whe David Blain hit our small screens I was fascinated and intrigued. Even when the spoiler program came out and showed how he did his tricks I still thought they were good. Now he is trying to emulate Harry Houdini by doing huge stunts...
Having seen the Webb Brothers do a superb set on Wednesday I hiked over to their website (or is that webbsite?) to check them out and discovered that they have a single out tommorow - Mrs Moriarty - which is great. I also went to Amazon...
Just come across a great site, Lost in transation. It takes a word or phrase defined by you and uses Babelfish to translate from English into Japanese then back to English then Chinese then English Then Korean then English then French...
Paula and I went to the OKGO gig at the Electric Ballroom in Camden tonight courtesy of Xfm - I won the tickets on the Adam and Joe show last Saturday. We missed the first band entirely having sat in the pub for too long, but arrived...
Toyota have put on sale the Worlds first self parking car. You drive alongside a parking space, stop and press a button - the car then manouvers itself into the space! Fantastic! Full story over at CNN. Doesn't look much but then it will...
British comedy sensations Adam and Joe are thought to have been secretly filming for Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings movie trilogy. ! Click on image for larger version British comedy sensations Adam and Joe are thought to have been...
Adam and Joe are sitting in for Ricky on XFM today and are doing a very good show so far, considering. And they do actually look like hobbits. Update Well it got even better, and to top that I won tickets to see OKGO in Camden next week!
If, like me, you design web sites this is possibly one of the most important books I have ever read about the subject - Designing with Web Standards by Jeffrey Zeldman. If, like me, you design web sites this is possibly one of the most...
We have had images from Dad as well as our own so there is a good mix. They can be found in the Gallery.
Today is our third annual Garden Party. We had the first one to celebrate rebuilding the garden and had so much fun that we decided t do one every year. You should be able to see things going on all day on the web cam and I will make...
! I received a pre release copy of The Dead Milkmens new album, Now We Are 20 from Dean today. I'm quite excited as there is a quote from me reproduced in the sleeve notes from when I was a roadie with the band! If you have never heard...
I have read a lot about the '419' Nigerian e-mail scams and have received three in the past two years but this morning I recived two new scam e-mails in my inbox. My head must be above the parapit because of my interview on BBC Radio...
I was there! What great fun that was! I have written an article for Flashmob.co.uk about the event - please go and read it and make comment if you will! There were a couple of TV crews so I may be on TV tommorow. There was meant to be a...
Steve Krug is bringing his usability workshop Don't Make Me Think: Learn to Think Like a Usability Expert in Eight Hours or Less to London on the 5th September! If you have not heard of Steve he's the thinking mans Jacob Neilsen and...