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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What can I say! The greatest sporting event of my life - yes better than that soccer event in '66. England have beaten Australia to win the 2003 Rugby World Cup. I watched the game in the Clubhouse of Shirley Wanderers RFC which was...
There has been several massive explosions in Istanbul this morning in the most crowded districts. The British Embassy has been targeted. Looks like a terrorist attack and there is only one person that we have to thank for it - George W...
The more observant andregular visitors will have noticed over the past few days that interesting floating box's pop up if you hold your mouse over a link. This is an advanded DOM technique created by Stuart Landridge and works wihtin the...
EU Bureaucrats classified the kilt as a women's skirt and then had to back down as a ferocious Scottish nation turned on them. And then they had to back down as a ferocious Scottish nation turned on them! "The statistical agency...
Large numbers of military aircraft have been heard flying over Scotland. The last time this happened was in the build up to the Iraq war earlier this year. Is Bush about to deliver someone a Christmas present? Or as Michael Moore and...
In the small hours of this morning I had a great idea for a BlueJack event that would be useful as a commercial competition or for a product, record or book launch. If you are interested please get in contact with me.
Have you been BlueJacked yet? I haven't but then my mobile phone (Palm Tungsten W) does not have Bluetooth. BlueJacking is the latest craze for those with Bluetooth enabled mobiles and consists of sending an anonymous message to someone...
From today’s Metro: "Fireworks prank kills Gerbil A shopkeeper was horrified when a group of teenagers sent a gerbil to its death by tying it to a firework. Yvonne Graves said the Youths bought a rocket from her store before getting a...
Suddenly sport is about to change, big time - all sports. Why? Because someone has invented a way to detect a drug used for enhancing ability. The THG scandal is going to rock sports in all disciplines and it is no wonder. The only...
24th October 2003 - a sad day for aviation as it is Concorde's last commercially operational day. Three flights will be landing in succession at 16:00 at Heathrow today, the last scheduled flight from New York, the Round Britain trip...
Well I was hoping to be writing a report on a fantastic nights gig at the Lees Cliffe Hall in Folkestone with The Darkness headlining. However... We set off Monday afternoon and were tanking down the motorway when I got a call from the...
Well I treated myself and purchased a new PC for all sorts of reasons. I decided this time I wanted a machine that could run graphic intensive games properly. Occasionally my chums and I get together for a Lan party and spend all day and...
Reports are coming in that the Darkness played a superb sold-out show at the Bowery Ballroom in the USA. Justin Hawkins ripped off his shirt and threw in into the crowd and the delighted crowd responded by throwing their underwear on...
Today I am doing a review of Philadelphia In Love, the new video compilation from The Dead Milkmen. It's a great DVD with a neat history of the DM's on video including their huge MTV hit Punk Rock Girl and you can really see the steps of...
Two separate innovations are about to take the humble monitor to a new dimension. The Fog Screen has been developed in Finland and used a dry mist as a suface for projection. The other system from Heliodisplay from IO2 Tecnology is even...