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Past Pictures: Richard at Eight

June 3, 2008 by rickety 1 Comment

Richard at 8

Occasionally I will post Past Pictures. This is my first. It is in the backyard of my home in Weston Estate where I lived for fourteen years. Our family rented a Council House like most everyone else. It was a pleasant home.

Filed Under: Past Pictures, Rick Tagged With: History, Home

Wiki Tables

June 2, 2008 by rickety Leave a Comment


Semantic MediaWiki

Consider this sortable wiki table. What is the easiest way to create it and maintain it? Here is how I do it:

  1. Use a spreadsheet such as Excel, OpenOffice Calc, or Google Docs to compile the data. I like to use Google Docs so that if needed I can share the spreadsheet online. A spreadsheet is simpler to use than a wiki table, duplicates cells easier, and totals columns. Where there are blank cells, use a non-breaking space (&nbsp) to maintain table integrity.
  2. When the spreadsheet is finished, export the data as csv. In Google Docs the csv data appears in another tab in my Firefox browser.
  3. Select all the csv data and paste it into the window of a CSV Converter. In the Convert Special Characters section select Do not convert (table contains code). Click on the Convert to MediaWiki! button.
  4. Copy the wiki table to your wiki edit page. Add in your wikitable sortable, cellspacing, border, and background color, etc. Don’t forget to add the sortbottom class before the totals row.
  5. When updating your article, put the changes in your spreadsheet and convert as before but do not replace the wiki table header. You will have to re-type the sortbottom class as this is replaced each time. If someone else updates the wiki table directly, don’t forget to update your spreadsheet.

With a large wiki table of membership records, by updating in a spreadsheet the totals are calculated for you which makes for easier going than to update the wiki table directly.


Filed Under: Blogging Tagged With: MediaWiki, Wiki

Farmington Frontrunner

June 1, 2008 by rickety 5 Comments

I had an opportunity to take a few photographs of Frontrunner when I went to pick Jill up at the Farmington Station. I haven’t been around a train for awhile so it appeared larger to me. I haven’t ridden it yet but I will soon.

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Filed Under: Travel Tagged With: Rail transport

Jill’s birthday

May 31, 2008 by rickety 3 Comments

Today is Jill’s birthday. We celebrated with the family on Memorial Day so there was only one gift today (from me). A 4GB Creative Zen so that Jill can listen to audio books while she is riding FrontRunner to work. I picked the Zen because it has bookmarks which a lot of mp3 players do not have.

Filed Under: Jill Tagged With: Birthday, Zen

Daniel’s Graduation

May 30, 2008 by rickety Leave a Comment

Daniel with Certificate

Daniel received his Davis High School diploma on Friday 30th May 2008. The family was there to celebrate the day.

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Filed Under: Daniel Tagged With: Graduation, High school

He will be a boy

May 29, 2008 by rickety Leave a Comment

Today I got an email from Sarah:

Just thought you might like to know that I’m going to have a boy! Not very surprising considering how many boys already exist in this family, eh? Anyways, the baby is healthy and everything looked good. Now if we could just get the mother feeling well.

I am very happy that he is a boy. We all know how to raise boys.

Filed Under: Bryson Tagged With: Boy

Wallpaper Change

May 29, 2008 by rickety Leave a Comment

Paul overheard Jill say that she wanted to change the wallpaper on the stairs. So Paul started ripping it off. When Mike and Christopher arrived, Christopher joined Daniel and Paul, along with Sean Huggins and Tyler Stout (not shown) in the project.

Filed Under: Jake, Paul Tagged With: Sean

Memorial Day 2008

May 26, 2008 by rickety Leave a Comment

Ready to topple the tree

We trimmed the tree and dug around the roots before pulling on the chain.

Memorial Day found our family in Brigham City ready to work in my father-in-law’s yard. It was rainy heavily when we arrived so we sat in the living room thinking we wouldn’t be able to tackle the yard. There was a tree to uproot so Paul and Steven went out to examine it in the rain. Soon we were all out there pulling it over with a chain. The Ward’s were helping as well as the spouses of the children of both families. I didn’t think we would be able to pull the tree out but we did. After that we trimmed hedges, emptied a large fish pond, planted flowers, and generally cleaned up.

Steven tackles the tree and that is Derek on the left. Paul is working behind Steven.

Here are Steven (left) and Paul digging at the roots.

Jill takes the video of the fallen tree. Paul gets at the roots again so we can pull it all the way out.

Later we celebrated Jill’s birthday and some of us went to the cemetery.

Filed Under: Group Tagged With: Brigham City, Work, Yard

Senior Banquet

May 22, 2008 by rickety Leave a Comment

Thursday 22nd may was the Senior Banquet in the Utah Kaysville South Stake. Daniel graduated from Davis High so the stake feeds the graduates and parents every year. While we are there a slideshow projects current photographs of the seniors and then a baby picture.

Filed Under: Daniel Tagged With: Graduation, High school

State Championship

May 17, 2008 by rickety Leave a Comment

Daniel leads in the 4x400 relay
This photograph was taken by my brother showing Daniel leading the third leg of the 4×400 relay, the last race of the Utah State Championships Saturday 17th May 2008. His relay team won again this year and Davis High boys won the championship with 110 points. Second place went to Viewmont with 68 points. The Davis High girls took second. This photograph is one of my favorites.

Filed Under: Daniel Tagged With: Sports, Track

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