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In 2011 Rickety received 114,610 visits from 192 countries, generating 191,044 pageviews. I published 195 posts in 2011 but only two of them made it into the top ten. The remainder were written in 2010 (3) and 2009 (5). Here are the ten most popular: 10 Defense Spending by Country In the latter half of [...]
Rickety was primarily created to keep family and friends informed about Daniel’s missionary experiences. But Daniel’s mission ended in December 2010. Just like many government programs that have grown beyond their original scope and should be retired (or at least scaled back), Rickety is being mothballed for a season so that resources can be utilized [...]
Around the blogosphere I have noticed that a few bloggers have published their top ten posts of 2010. For example, consider the Harvard Business Review, Parents as Teachers, and the Washington Area Women’s Foundation. I decided my top ten list could be just as interesting — or boring. In 2010 Rickety received 56,309 visits from 168 [...]
Rick Needs I last tried this in 2008 and it never fails to amuse me. It seems to work for almost any name. The idea is to search on Google with the words Rick needs, but substituting in your name. Then examine the first ten hits and extract the essence of the results and compile [...]
Google recently added the World Bank’s World Development Indicators to their existing US unemployment and US population data sets. The World Development Indicators consist of 17 data sets that Google plots as an interactive graph using their public data search.
These are my Top 10 Favorite WordPress Plugins. My purpose is not to demonstrate how they work but to bring their existence to your attention. I have used all of these plugins for quite some time and have had them function correctly and consistently.
There may be one other blogger out there, besides me, who is interested in my top ten posts of 2009. Maybe not. Anyway, here are my top ten from 1 January 2009 to 30 December 2009.
Enhance your WordPress blog by creating multiple, three-level alphabetical indexes of your posts based on any combination of post title, author, extract, or custom fields of your choice.
I didn’t know what to expect as this was my first time at a blog gathering. As I stood in line to register I felt a little out of place because everyone else had brought their laptops.
I am using five widgets on my left sidebar. The first three are the usual Search, Subscribe, and Recent Comments. A text widget allows me to add the image and link to jesuschrist.lds.org. The WP-Stat widget by Lester Chan displays my WordPress blog statistics including general total statistics.
Looking at the most popular posts you can see that four of the five are about family or friends so it is understandable that they would rise to the top.
The idea is to search on Google with your name first and then “needs”, for example “Rick needs”.
Yesterday I made the switch from my old rickety blog to a new location and a new theme. I took the blog out of www.rickety.us and exported my posts to a new database.
Consider this sortable wiki table. What is the easiest way to create it and maintain it? Here is how I do it.
Military Expenditures The eighteen nations with the largest military budgets in 2010 are shown in …
The following was adapted from the Improvement Era magazine of April 1911 Investigation of Mormon …
Paul and Jake tell me that yesterday they launched from the south and sailed to the east on Causey …
The mission of the Department of Defense is to provide the military forces needed to deter war and …
Paul and Jake have all the barrels and the wood they need and this evening are finishing the …
In the photograph above Connie illustrates what the canyon looks like by the pictographs. Not that …
I thought it would never snow but overnight we got several inches in Kaysville. Out came the snowman …
I'm Rick Willoughby. I live in Utah, working as a Software Engineer. I'm a Mormon, married with 5 children and 3 grandchildren.
I emigrated from England in my late twenties, bringing with me one small suitcase and $1,000. I appreciate the opportunities America gave me and the friendliness of the people to new citizens.
I blog about my family as well as politics, religion, finance, technology, and other topics.
Currently Rickety has an average of 17,000 pageviews a month and over 400 visitors a day. Thank you for being one of them.