The Yellow Llama Blog Articles
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- 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, ...
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- Written: June 12th, 2008
- Filed in: Tech Stuff, Web Design & Development, Web Stuff
- By: MarkB
SourceForge.net 2008 Community Choice Awards
Anyone who's spend more than a day surfing the net and checking for software/webware applications, is bound to have stumbled upon SourceForge. To say that they're an online storage place for source code revisions, would be a great understatement. Anyways, they're having their 2008 Community Choice Awards. The good news about their award program this year is that they've opened doors to any open source projects hosted anywhere, ...
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- Written: June 11th, 2008
- Filed in: Generalisms
- By: MarkB
What you think of my new site? :)
Well, its been a while in coming, but finally the new Yellow Llama website is done. I'm really loving it... you? This site also marks a new chapter in my coding practices with a new foray into jQuery. After watching a quick video tutorial on the basic potential of jQuery, I was blown away with its ease of use and the ability to animate, class and work with elements. It's so easy, its a shame I never noticed this ...
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- Written: April 29th, 2008
- Filed in: Humor, Tech Stuff, Watching the World
- By: MarkB
What’s being loaded into this plane?
Its a hard disk in 1956.... HDD with 5MB storage in 1956. In September 1956 IBM launched the 305 RAMAC, the first computer with a hard disk drive (HDD). The HDD weighed over a ton and stored 5MB of data. Start appreciating your 1 GB memory stick!
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- Written: April 9th, 2008
- Filed in: Web Design & Development, Web Stuff, Wordpress
- By: MarkB
The WordPress Guru is launched
For the last 4 or 5 years that I've been using WordPress, I've managed to pick up a good few tips and tricks. 90% of my clients are sites who require content management systems, not blogs. And thus I've been able to create highly tweaked and customized Wordpress content management systems that give my clients a great method of controlling their entire website via WordPress's great user interface. I thus decided to start WPGuru.co.za ...
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- Written: March 17th, 2008
- Filed in: Humor
- By: MarkB
A blind man wanders into an all-girls biker bar by mistake…
A blind man wanders into an all-girls biker bar by mistake. He finds his way to a bar stool and orders some coffee. After sitting there for awhile, he yells to the waiter, 'Hey, you want to hear a blonde joke? The bar immediately falls absolutely silent. In a very deep, husky voice, the woman next to him says, 'Before you tell that joke, sir, I think it is only fair given that you are blind that ...
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- Written: March 12th, 2008
- Filed in: Humor
- By: MarkB
Looking for trouble…
Best part is when the dog looks up at the cat like... WTF are you doing...
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- Written: February 22nd, 2008
- Filed in: Humor
- By: MarkB
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- Written: February 13th, 2008
- Filed in: Humor, Watching the World
- By: MarkB
Examples of Kulula attendants’ sense of humor
Kulula is an Airline with head office situated in Johannesburg. Kulula airline attendants make an effort to make the in-flight "safety lecture" and announcements a bit more entertaining. Here are some Real examples that have been heard or reported: On a Kulula flight, (there is no assigned seating, you just sit where you want) passengers were apparently having a hard time choosing, when a flight attendant announced, "People, people we're not picking out furniture here, find a seat ...