Well – I’m back from another exciting week at a Scripture Union Scotland camp at Lendrick Muir. I will probably write a few more reflections on both the personal/spiritual challenges from the week, and also the technical challenges, over the next few days, but I thought it would be good to post a few little updates here just to whet the appetite 
HDD Failure
My harddrive showed signs of being about to fail on the Friday before camp. With all the editing I had been doing, and with >40GB of digital video footage on my drive, I made haste to encode to MPEG, but also bought a new 160GB drive from Priceless Computing. Everything transferred safely, much to my relief.
CampAdmin
Longterm readers of the ‘Moose may remember the administration system I wrote 2 years ago for camp, to handle the stresses and strains of running a cashless society. This year it was back in action, this time running on a dedicated machine running the lightweight Xubuntu distribution. I hadn’t, however, fixed any of the things that I knew were broken, which is something I should probably dedicate some time to in the next few months. Additionally, I think I may build a Gtk frontend to replace the wxPython frontend that is currently in existence. It was, however, good to see how much of the system was still working properly.
Mislaid
The camp drama that we filmed was called Mislaid. It was a lot of hard work, and, even though it’s not the most high-quality production (the audio, in particular, is dodgy), I want to release it on the internet. Plus, because of the use of creative commons music, I can legally do so! The website is over at mislaid.jedimoose.org – enjoy! (Videos not yet uploaded – should be up by the end of the week, with the DVD image available within a couple of weeks_.
Camp Itself!
While I mostly at camp to make all the techno-wizardry run smoothly (which it did all week, apart from setting off the fire alarm on Friday night with a smoke machine 
), it was a significant time for me. I need to gather some thoughts, and work out the implications of the things that I have learnt, which I will write at another time.
Hope you’ve all been behaving while I’ve been away
mrBen
I think it would be awsome if you still had all the videos made for camp if u posted them all online. I remember making one with BigAl and Supergingerman that I never managed to see finished, but it was great fun.
People get famous for less but at least These were quality entertainment