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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Relevant links for my Media Management MA course (put here for my convenience!) http://www.culture.gov.uk/default.htm http://media.guardian.co.uk/ http://www.mpaa.org/home.htm http://www.screendigest.com/...
Article on how internet usage is actually following traditional industrial revolution models of growth. Originally published on silicon.com and Peter Cochrane's personal site - both no longer available so I have posted it here. Peter...
Our masters lecture got diverted tonight as we went along to a talk by Gary Kurtz, producer of American Graffiti, Star Wars and Empire Strikes back, The Dark Crystal and Two Lane Black Top amongst many many films and projects he talked...
"Now on the way: "Surfing on the loo" with Internet access at portable toilets. The iLoo being developed by the MSN division of Microsoft Corp. in Britain is a standard portable toilet -- a "loo" to the English -- with a wireless...
I had a great deal of people reaching this site having followed a search for wma189. The reason they landed here was that I have a page of e-mail addresses that have spammed me and this has been indexed by the search engines. I can only...
I have had a really really sore throat since tuesday and it really hurts and I has kept me away from work. It's feels practically raw - every time I swallow I am racked in pain. I can just about speak but it even hurts to do that....
*"For many years, people used IQ tests to try and determine someone’s intelligence. However, some researchers believe that IQ tests do not take into account the fact that different people might think in different ways, and have different...
Thanks to Dean who pointed out that the online diary of Pepys mentions a trip to Deal, "a pitiful town" for the ale today.
Have just got back from our Masters induction day. A lot to take in and mull over. I may well join the National Union of Students and get cheap rail tickets - which will help with the cost of books etc! The Media Management MA team...
This new service in London I just have to try out. Zingo will be especially helpful when I have been out on the town with the boys and need a cab. I love the idea that they can pinpoint the nearest available taxi to where you are - even...
Its rare that I lose it with Apple but this time it's more of the same. Last night I downloaded iTunes 4 and the new version of Quicktime to enable it to run properly. iTunes 4 offers a few improvements over an already great programme....
I have just added John Addis's excellent MT addon that allows me to add little images to each item's category. Area 42: Topic Icons, 1.2.0 Includes full instructions on how to add the plug in to Moveable Type and how to add into your...
I find some solace in these stories about criminals who are stupid. Crime really shouldn't pay and guilty felons getting their comeuppance is some often deserved schadenfreude. silicon.com - Digital blunders: Fraudster's mobile bungling...
Just finished this quite outstanding first novel from Richard K. Morgan. Very Cyberpunk although it is set well into the future. Humans are defined as a digital conscious and that is kept in a cortical stack which can be implanted into...
When I first bought the domain name simoncox.com I did a search around the web looking for any references to me, I sure you have all done it, and I discovered a lot of other Simon Cox's. To check how many of you there are in the UK check...