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If you're starting to end sentences with semicolons try Python. My new primary language. I have a draft saved at the moment about my transition to Python. Short story: I'm loving it. Stay tuned.

As a counterpoint to Jon's Photoshop overdose, I have my own story. When I was still living in the dorms, I was reading one night (in front of the computer, since I was working on a computer science class assignment) and turned the page. I realized I didn't want to turn the page, and for the briefest moment, I started to reach for the "Back" button.

This afternoon the two engineers we originally had inspected our home came over, looked around, and made their recommendations. Since their experience is based on (among other things) inspecting homes for many years (sometimes the same homes as they are sold again later), their advice carries a lot of weight, and it is advice in which you can have a degree of confidence. What it amounts to is that we may not have to do as much as we previously thought. Tearing out the carpet: yup, still doing that. Tearing out the forced-air furnace: might just be able to clean the ducts. Tearing off the walls: doesn't sound like we'll have to; might be able to seal them up. If budget allows, we would might replace the wood panels with sheet rock.

But the bottom line is that it sounds like we may be doing less than previously thought. Praise the Lord!

Thanks to Jon, Jackson, Izzy, and a bunch of heavy lifting, the furniture is out of the house. Yesterday, we moved a stove, refrigerator, dishwasher, a matress, box spring, a bedframe made out of 2x8's, three couches, a washer and dryer pair, an upright freezer, two (heavy) entertainment centers (long story), four book cases, a heavy filing cabinet, two computer desks, a dresser, two lamps, two night stands, and a partridge in a pair tree. I was sore at the end. Not sure about the others. But now we can pack up the rest of the house (books, miscellaneous stuff) and start tearing up the carpet. A productive day. Thanks to all that helped!

Jon's post about Camryn's Boppy brought to mind some of the words that Elizabeth uses frequently, and we know well, but would probably confuse the daylights out of anyone else.

"hohju"
We hear this a lot. Especially now that Jonathan is taking more of momma's time. It means "hold you." As in, "I want to hold you." In other words, she wants to be held. Most often accompanied by upheld arms.

"bihpipt"
Heard most often when it's time to go to bed, or when she wants to snuggle. Or when she sees Jonathan using a "blanket."

"bupups"
This one is daddy's fault. When you call the diaper wipes "butt wipes" one too may times in the child's presence, they pick up on it.

"buhpag"
Burp rag.

"lahlu"
"Love you." One that just melts your heart.

"dying" or "die"
Heard often when Jonathan is not happy, because he's "crying."

"datch"
It's the thing that most people wear around their left wrist, or when she wants to see what's going on. She's wants to "watch" what you're doing.

"ahlu"
We sing in the car sometimes (and at home too) and one of our songs is the old "kids'" song "Allelu, Allelu, Allelu, Allelujah, Praise ye the Lord." "Ahlu" is about the most she can get out of that.

"odem"
Her newest one. When she wants to "Hold him," that is hold Jonathan.

"wo, wo, wo"
When she wants to sing "Row, row, row your boat."

"tihtu" (with very short syllables)
Her version of "Thank you."

"bahpi"
One of the most tangential to its original. Often accompanied by her thumb and index finger on each hand brought together at a point and rotated, indicating she wants to sing (or help Jonathan sing) "Itsy-bitsy Spider."

"nahnin"
Jonathan, who else?

"eanin"
"Eating" As in "nahnin, eanin, momma" Yes, Jonathan was being fed at that point.

"tehtah" (With soft t's for lack of a better way to explain it)
Trachea. Yes, she knows where it is, and yes she can point it out on anyone in the locality, as well as on her stuffed animals.

Those are all that come to mind for now. Stay on the lookout for "Toddlerese 2."

So, blogs support these things called trackbacks. It's so blog writers will know you've made reference to their article in your blog. Of course, they don't always work out of the box, so things have to be tweaked. Jon and I think we have worked out the reason I couldn't create trackbacks to his site. We'll test this out by pointing you to one of this post on the joys (that Crystal and I are experiencing as well) of deciphering "toddlerese."

John Bourne made mention of our new web site. It's nice to get pointed to by an established blogger. And, no, Jon, I don't mind you filing the notice under "geek."

I've done a few server installs over the past few months where the install called for a web server. Whether it was an application needing a web interface, or the application was a web application, sometimes a web server was needed. In those instances, if the application did not have a heavy dependency on Apache I'd install Lighttpd instead. It has a smaller footprint, is more efficient, faster, and has built-in support for FastCGI.

Today I went to install Lighttpd on a new server and realized it might not be so lightweight. The server was a fresh, minimal, install of Ubuntu, so had only installed what was absolutely needed up to that point, which included a stripped down version of Perl. As part of installing Lighttpd, it wanted to install a couple Perl modules, which meant that the full Perl installation was needed, along with all the default Perl modules. Total weight? 25.1MB installed. An Apache install would have only taken about 7MB at this point.

However, to be fair, in an environment where other requirements are already installed, Lighttpd would only have required an extra 1MB and Apache would have needed about 4MB. Also, I'm sure something else would have needed to install Perl along the line anyway, it was just a little shocking to see the footprint for a "slim" server need so much space.

And, yes, I still went with Lighttpd.

Over at Bourne in Alaska Jon Bourne wonders whether or not we can stop writing "Internet" and "Web" and just refer to them as the "internet" and the "web." That depends. Are they proper nouns? Well, yes, at least at one point in their existence. As most geeks know, but the general public may not, the Internet referred to a network created by ARPA (now DARPA) in 1969 called ARPANET. In 1983, then first TCP/IP wide area network went live on what would become NSFNet. As other networks joined to NSFNet, it became known as the Internet, due to the fact they it was linking many different networks, thus the "inter" part of the name.

While it is traditionally considered a proper noun, and often written as "the Internet," there are publications (more so outside the United States) that regularly use the lowercase. Wikipedia has this to say

Historically, Internet and internet have had different meanings, with internet being a contraction of internetwork or internetworking and Internet referring to the International Network. ... The distinction was evident in many RFCs, books, and articles from the 1980s and early 1990s (some of which, such as RFC 1918, refer to "internets" in the plural), but has recently fallen into disuse. Instead, the term intranet is generally used for private networks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet#The_name_Internet

Wikipedia also points to IBM's TCP/IP Tutorial and Technical Overview, published in 1989, which stated

The words internetwork and internet is [sic] simply a contraction of the phrase interconnected network. However, when written with a capital "I", the Internet refers to the worldwide set of interconnected networks. Hence, the Internet is an internet, but the reverse does not apply. The Internet is sometimes called the connected Internet.

I would say "Internet" still refers to the world-wide connected network. As to "Web" I've never really thought about that one..and never knew it was supposed to be capitalized. I would say that since "Web" is actually a shortening of "World Wide Web," a noun which refers to a specific thing, namely the system created by billions of interconnected web pages, then it would be capitalized. But you probably noticed that I wrote "web" in the last sentence. Why? It felt natural. A "web page" is not "the web" A web page is part of the Web. I guess in the use as a noun, "Web" would be capitalized. In use as an adjective, i.e. "web page" it would not be capitalized. However, standard usage in English would seem to indicate that adjectives derived from proper nouns would retain their capitalization.

At the moment, no examples come to mind of common nouns in our language that used to be proper nouns. Someone who is more into literature probably could.

We are in our temporary living space. We started moving on Monday (the 15th) and spent our first night in the apartment on Tuesday. We are all less congested already, especially Jonathan, and Crystal can take deep breaths a whole lot easier. We have most of what we need to live (clothes, kitchen stuff, daily necessities) moved over. Some additional things will be moved in the coming days.

Things still needed while we're in the apartment:

Bean bag chairs
We don't really want to subject anyone to carrying a couch up three flights of stairs (unless they really want to), so we figure eight to ten bean bag chairs will serve nicely.

A recliner
We have one recliner (thanks Chaces!), and we've discovered that sometimes both little ones need to be rocked at the same time. So, another one would be nice, but not critical.

Thanks to everyone for their generous support and prayers. We've been without a computer for a couple days, so if I haven't responded to your e-mail yet, I'm not ignoring you. I'll get to it.

Tonight I went and looked at an apartment being rented by some friends of ours. 900 square feet, 2 bedroom. More than big enough for a temporary place to live. And the best part: it's about a five minute walk from our house, so will be very convenient for working on the house, doing once-a-month cooking, and doing laundry.

Praise the Lord!

Hello, and thanks for visiting. This is the first post of the year to the Kugler blog,and actually the first post ever. We hope to get much use out of this tool. See you soon!