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Human vs Pet Age

M. Douglas Wray — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 06:20:37 +0000

**Human/Pet Age Analogy**
		Adult Size in Pounds
		0 – 20	21 – 50	51 – 120	> 120
Years	Feline	Canine
Pet Age	Human Equivalent Age
3	28	28	29	31	39
4	32	33	34	38	49
5	36	38	39	45	59
6	40	42	44	52	69
7	44	46	49	59	79
8	48	50	54	66	89
9	52	54	59	73	99
10	56	58	64	80
11	60	62	69	87
12	64	66	74	94
13	68	70	79
14	72	74	84
15	76	78	89
16	80	82	94
17	84	86
18	88	90
19	92	94
20	96

Adult

Senior

Geriatric

10 Simple Words

M. Douglas Wray — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:00:10 +0000

10 Simple Words Students (And Everyone) Screw Up

from EDUdemic

OMG U Guyz, Grammar among kidz the$e days be terribllle! So does speeling! There is a big problem unfolding around the world right now. Lucky for you, The Oatmeal has spelled it out, literally. The guy behind the hit comic strip has laid out the top 10 words everyone probably misspells. Hilarious stuff. Enjoy!

Cleaner Science

M. Douglas Wray — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:00:41 +0000

Wonderfully geeky soaps…

Soap designed to look like Leveduras on Sabouraud agar

Soap designed to look like White Escherichia coli bacteria on blood agar

There’s lots more at Etsy as well as Facebook.

DOF

M. Douglas Wray — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:21:20 +0000

Lovely little interactive ActionScript. This person is available for freelance and he looks worth it.

DOF

Harmony

M. Douglas Wray — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:05:58 +0000

Harmony

Captivating little HTML5 drawing app by Ricardo Cabello. Works swell on the iPhone too. (Via Federico Viticci.)

★

[Daring Fireball]

Less

M. Douglas Wray — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:00:23 +0000

Less – if you use CSS for design, check it out.

Mispelling

M. Douglas Wray — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 02:27:34 +0000

Great piece about words you should stop mispelling.

I would humbly add: Asterisk – not Asterick.

AC Adapters

M. Douglas Wray — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 06:47:58 +0000

A friend of mine went to South America recently. He prudently went to a Boulder store to get a power connector adapter – and was promptly given the wrong thing by an ill-informed shopkeeper. So, upon reaching his destination, he ended up having to buy something that would work. Here’s photos of the adapters he needed:

These cost around $5 USD… the one’s recommended in Boulder – I think he said around $20. He took the bogus ones back and asked for a refund.

Double-check before you buy!

Logo Design

M. Douglas Wray — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:58:37 +0000

Great article on logo design.

Logo design in today’s world is totally underrated. People don’t understand how important a good logo is and how valuable it is to their business. Let me guide you through the basics of what makes a good logo, while also walking you through the process of creating the identity and logo design for one of my recent clients, Vero, a limited liability company based in Miami, Florida. Hopefully, this will give you an understanding of what actually goes on behind the scenes while creating a professionally designed logo.

Read the rest at Layers magazine.

Exploded 128

M. Douglas Wray — Sun, 10 May 2009 05:51:29 +0000

(click image to enlarge — only if you are wearing absorbent clothing, don’t say I didn’t warn you)

Ohmigawd. Oh.Mah.GAWD. Accurate right down to those pesky deeply-buried top screws. siiigh… (wipes away tear)

Go now – get.

If you drove one of the earliest Macs, this is an official ‘Holy Relic’ – and should be treated as such.

Garry Booth has created a lovely piece of artwork that any Mac Geek would be proud to have.

Good job folks!

I hope the folks at Denver Apple Pi see this soon.

Cheatsheets

M. Douglas Wray — Wed, 06 May 2009 00:02:40 +0000

From dreamcss.com

Google:

Apache :

ASCII Character Codes :

ASP:

Blogging:

CSS:

Firefox:

htaccess:

HTML/XHTML :

Java :

JavaScript :

jquery :

mod_rewrite Cheat Sheet:

MySQL :

Oracle :

Perl:

Photoshop:

PHP :

Python:

Ruby:

XML Technologies :

Bacon Blowtorch

M. Douglas Wray — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 02:12:22 +0000

Mmm…. bacon.

Raspberries

M. Douglas Wray — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 08:34:53 +0000

Mac, Linux skills grab higher salaries than Windows

One Year Later

M. Douglas Wray — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 23:32:05 +0000

From David Alison’s Blog:

Switching from Windows to Mac – One Year Later

Not Perfect But Close Enough
My Macs have not been perfect mind you. I continue to get Time Machine errors that correct themselves on the next try (can’t it just auto-retry once and THEN tell me there was a problem if that failed???). From a design standpoint I like the fact that the top level menu is fixed and context sensitive because it cuts down on every window having a menu bar, but it means that on multiple display systems that menu may be a screen or two away from what I am working on.

- there’s much more. It’s a great article and must-read for PC die-hards (and you knows who you is… signficant glance)

WP SEO

M. Douglas Wray — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 06:21:47 +0000

Superb WordPress SEO talk.

WordPress SEO & Optimisation Strategies a4uexpo London 2008 from existem on Vimeo.

iPod Juice

M. Douglas Wray — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 06:21:22 +0000

Just got a replacement battery for my iPod Mini (kindly given to me by my pal DJ Cline some time ago) from iPod Juice. The installation is fairly simple – provided you follow the (lovely, full-color glossy) instructions to the letter.

Even being careful I managed to narf one of the little ‘teeth‘ they warn you about. ‘Slow‘ and ‘firm‘ are your watchwords. Don’t hurry and do not use ‘gorilla-strength’ at any point. One false move and you have an expensive paperweight, albeit with a brand-spankin new battery.

Read the instructions all the way through and study the (excellent) photos carefully – they’re very helpful.

$36 (roughly) was all it cost to restore my vintage iPod Mini to proper multi-hour ear-shattering condition.

Thank you Mr. Cline. (and Mr. Echternacht for the assist).

Color me amazed

M. Douglas Wray — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 06:15:56 +0000

Very, very cool idea.

Multicolr Search Lab – Flickr Set