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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Just been to the Red Bull Flugtag in Hyde Park. Over 200,000 people according to the policeman on one of the many closed gates. On the way home we were sitting on the train waiting to leave Victoria when I noticed that the staff member...
Bitter news that a train driver was kiiled on one of the best run Railways in Britain . Full story over at the Beeb.
I have put together a new Flashmob site dedicated to events in the UK and launched it yesterday. I imagine it may still take a few hours before the domain name has got around all the servers in the world so if you can't get through...
I read about Flashmobs and thought what a crazy but brilliant idea. A Flashmob is where an apparently inexplicable mob of people gather for a few minutes, something occurs and then they disperse. To the general public these events must...
I finally got round to adding the favicon back into the site. I used to have one a long time ago but it was pants. You should be able to see the fav icon in the address bar above - a little picture of me! If you bookmark the site the...
Hollywood are bringing out a set of trailers to be shown in cinemas to combat file sharing of movies. The trailers show the human plight and suffering in the industry caused by file sharing movies - the carpenters and stagehands who's...
Over the past few months I kept hearing a bizarre but brilliant song on XFM and its grew on me. So much so that I just went out and bought the album - Permission to land by the UK's most outrageous new rock band The Darkness. Everything...
It looks like time is up for the US's (soon to be our's...) President Bush and a scandal to rival that of Watergate is now brewing. US domestic criticism mounts over intelligence used to justify war. Source The Guardian Meanwhile: As the...
Every Monday morning, early, I am woken by our two cats diving for cover under the bed as if they had heard tanks rolling down the street. It's half past six in the morning and the dustbin men, or Domestic Refuse Collection Operatives,...
Pittock.net is now live and the forum is in place. I encourage Pittock family members who visit this site occasionally to go and register on the forum. [Pittock.net ](https://web.archive.org/web/20091126173931/http://www.pittock.net /)is...
Pittock reunion day 3 - Castle Coombe and Stourhead. On Friday the 27th of June we met early once again and took the coach on a trip to Castle Combe, the location of the film Dr Doolittle. It was quite a walk from the coach park down to...
Pittock reunion 2003 day two - Bristol and Wells. On Thursday the 26th of June we all met early in the morning and boarded a coach that took us to Bristol to visit the SS Great Britain and its heritage centre. The SS Great Britain was...
Day one at the Pittock reunion - Bath. On Wednesday the 25th of June we gathered in a hotel reception for a stroll into the city where we met one of the Mayors volunteer guides. She took us on a two hour walk around Bath pointing out the...
The Pittock Reunion happens every two years and always in a different location - this year it was Bath. We amassed on Tuesday the 24th of June 2003 at 6.30pm for a buffet reception and get together at the Menzies Waterside Hotel in Bath....
Just purchased a new Palm Tungsten W - that's the one with the phone built in! Fab piece of kit. I am writing this entry on the Palm right now and will be able to update the website from nearly anywhere in the world. Why? Because I can...