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Trying out Last.fm

I’m not really sure why I decided to try out Last.fm. I think it was something to do with being able to “scrobble” what i’m listening to from Spotify.
Anyhow – add me up: http://www.last.fm/user/dasgarner

My new home on the web

Over the last few months I have been gradually moving all my stuff over to the cloud! The result of this is that this blog has moved to a shiney new server and to Wordpress – my blogger blog is no more!
As always I will try to update this more frequently… expect more Xibo related [...]

Snow Mini Picture

A cool picture I took this morning as I had arrived at work a whole hour early!

The promised funny Rally Experience story

OK, so as I recently mentioned I spent the morning with Luke at his Rally Experience Day.. Now anyone that knows my brother will know that he is a little accident prone – a rally day perhaps not ideal you might be thinking!
Anyhow the first thing that the instructors do is get all the drivers [...]

Luke’s rally experience

Was up early this morning to head up to Langley rally school to watch Luke do his stuff. Funny story to follow!

Wii Sports Bowling High Score

What can I say.. I was on fire!!

Gong Fu Set

Today I became the proud new owner of a Gong Fu tea set which I have had on order since last week. I bought the set from Jing Tea here.

The set is primarily glass and consists of a pot, a pitcher, 2x double walled glass cups (80ml). I purchased the master set which also includes [...]

Number of working days in the UK

Assuming a 365 day year (no leap years, too rare)
Start with 365
Deduct 104 for weekends
Deduct 20 contract holidays (4 weeks @ 5 days),
Deduct 9 public holidays.
Makes 232
The 9 public holidays are:
2 each at Christmas and New Year (thats [...]