Well - we’re 5 days in and still going. Looks like BigAl is matching me post-for-post too. I’m not sure that the ‘Moose has ever seen this much content! Hopefully we’ll keep up the quality along with the quantity.

Given that it’s Sunday, and this is a Lenten blog, I thought I would pimp a quality piece of church software that we’ve been using in church for a while - OpenSong. OpenSong is one of the best pieces of “lyric projection” software that I know of - it keeps an index of song lyrics, and has a good 2-screen projection system, with easy access to add songs, and scripture. It also is able to print song lists, and keep chord charts, although we’ve not yet exploited that fully. Hopefully one day. And it’s Open Source, although it’s written in RealBasic, which means you need a piece of proprietary software in order to re-compile it, which is a pity, but at least it’s also cross-platform.

It’s written mainly by one guy, but there is now an active developer community working towards v1.0. Don’t let the numbers fool you - the current version is completely stable. In fact, the only real issue that prevents us from using it for 100% of the service is the inability (currently) to insert PowerPoint presentations into it.

Anyway - just thought I would give it a bit of a mention. Have a nice day, y’all

mrBen