The Yellow Llama Blog Articles
- Comments: 4
- Written: August 26th, 2008
- Filed in: Humor, Watching the World
- By: MarkB
Amazing Pavement Art
Man, these guys have some serious skills. I love the 'World' one and the Helicopter scene is friggan hardcore too....
- Comments: 5
- Written: August 25th, 2008
- Filed in: Humor
- By: MarkB
This takes courage!
What would the product of this 'union' be called? Doger Diger Tidog Tigerdog ?
- Comments: 4
- Written: August 15th, 2008
- Filed in: Rants
- By: MarkB
The most shocking service from Sports Cafe
I recently received what could easily be described as the absolute worst customer service ever provided to me... and I've had my share. Here's what happened... We arrived at Cape Town airport at around 7am - in time for our flight back home to Port Elizabeth. We had some time to spare so we went into the Sports Cafe. We put our stuff down and waited for someone to come give ...
- Comments: 6
- Written: August 15th, 2008
- Filed in: Tech Stuff, Web Stuff
- By: MarkB
Sorry this video is no longer available: Fixed
Have you also been struggling with the apparently insessant problem with Youtube saying "Sorry this video is no longer available"? Yup, most of south africa has been. We've been playing with a fix and so far, it appears to be working perfectly. And as an added bonus, this fix seems to drastically improve the load time of Youtube & Break's video loading - No more waiting for a decent buffer.. You can play the video from start to ...
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- Written: July 28th, 2008
- Filed in: Portfolio
- By: MarkB
AJ’s Kitchens and Cabinets
We put together a quick site for the wood crafting legend that made our office desks and the TV unit for our home. Port Elizabeth maker of Kitchens and Cabinets, Des wanted a simple site that would showcase his woodworking talents serve as a portfolio to show prospective new clients. We put together a simple WordPress Theme that makes use of a basic accordion script and Cabel's Fancy Zoom script for image viewing. The galleries are maintained via ...
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- Written: July 22nd, 2008
- Filed in: Humor
- By: MarkB
Idiot Sightings
We had to have the garage door repaired. The Sears repairman told us that one of our problems was that we did not have a 'large' enough motor on the opener. I thought for a minute, and said that we had the largest one Sears made at that time, a 1/2 horsepower. He shook his head and said, 'Lady, you need a 1/4 horsepower.' I responded that 1/2 was larger than 1/4. He said, 'NO, it's not. Four is larger ...
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- Written: July 8th, 2008
- Filed in: Humor
- By: MarkB
Vodka & Red Bull Christmas Cake
Ingredients: 1 cup water 1 cup of brown sugar 1 tsp baking soda 1 cup of sugar 1 tsp salt Lemon Juice 4 large eggs Nuts 1 bottle of Vodka 1 can of Red Bull 2 cups dried fruit Method: 1. Sample the vodka to check the quality. 2. Take a large bowl, check the vodka again. 3. To be sure it is of the highest quality, pour one level cup and mix with a little red bull and drink. 4. Repeat. 5. Turn on the electric mixer, beat one cup of butter in a large fluffy ...
- Comments: 1
- Written: June 20th, 2008
- Filed in: Tech Stuff
- By: MarkB
Skype 4 Beta Out
This morning I found (I cant remember where) a note to try out the new Skype 4 BETA for Windows and I'm glad I did. The new interface is somewhat chunkier than before - The single pane is now a full screen application that offers a bunch of new features and options: I think I'm preferring this new interface. It's definitely inspired me to organize a decent ...
- Comments: 1
- Written: June 18th, 2008
- Filed in: Generalisms, Watching the World
- By: MarkB
Shocking Daily Sun Article
"Taking from whites is not a crime in SA" Click on the image above to read the copy. Essentials: Faraday Nkoane, the leader of a youth group told his followers to stop stealing from blacks because they will bewitch you etc. Rather, go steal from white people, because their ancestors took stuff from our ancestors, so now its payback time. Taking from whites is not a crime because you repossess what belongs to ...
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- Written: June 12th, 2008
- Filed in: Web Stuff
- By: MarkB
Firefox 3 To Be Released On June 17th
After receiving upwards of 1 000 000 pledges, Firefox 3 is set to be available for download on June 17th. There's still a number of questions though about the reliability of the product itself. Firefox 2 had known issues with RAM usage, and FF3 doesn't seem to have resolved any of these. Unfortunately, one issue that still exists in Firefox is memory leaks. According to the release notes, ...