Despair Sets In

Papabear is starting to despair that he will ever see James again!

Have you seen this bear?

Have you seen this bear? Answers to the name of James. If you have, please contact papabear on #english11.

Papabear starts Investigation

Papabear is already missing his teddy James. The can be seen here interrogating Jaymo_Black who is currently the prime suspect. Papabear is also extended his investigations to Scoutlink and has formally requested help from some German colleagues.

Where is James?

James has gone missing. However, we think we have found him. Somebody has fastened him to the top of the flagpole! Wicked people!


Papabear is not going to be very happy about this!

A Full House

We have a full house this morning. We have over 40 visitors which means the scouts and guides who have camped the night have had to give up the computers to give everybody a turn.

Sunday Morning Rush

It is Sunday morning and JOTI continues. 20 keas have just arrived at the door. They are very keen to get online and make contact with scouts, cubs, keas, guides and brownies from across the world

This is the first time the keas have used IRC chat so the crew are explaining the basic commands and getting them online. Europe and North & south America will currently be online.

Twister blows through Camp

Last night we has a twister that blow through the camp. The game was totally vicious with scouts literally falling over themselves and killing themselves with laughter.

Much fun was had by all.

So who is the Centre of Attention?

Andrew appears to be a huge hit with the girl guides as he shows them scoutlink using IRC chat.

Network Issues

We experienced some network issues this morning. We are using the schools broadband and we needed more ip addresses than were available in the range we had been allocated.


The solution involved me driving 35km home to pick up an old Netgear WGR614 router. This router has a single RJ45 socket for inward traffic and then splits into 4 outward RJ45 sockets. The nice thing about it is it accepts a single inward IP address and then acts as a DHCP server allocating ip addresses to all our computers. This gave us 253 unique ip addresses which is more than enough for our requirements.

Setting Up JOTI 2009

We arrived at Cotswold School on Friday evening at 07:00pm. The school hall is totally empty.

The pc's start arriving .......

The tables get set out ......

The computers get put on top of the tables .....


Then everything needs to be cabled up .....


And finally we are ready to go!

Be Prepared

Ben has brought with him an Apple ibook and a laptop PC. You might be thinking how can he possibly use two computers at once? So are we! Please tell us below why you think Ben needs two computers.

We are off again .......

We are once again back at Cotswold School in Christchurch New Zealand to spend yet another weekend attending a Jamboree On The Internet. This year we have 40 brand new Pentium computers all kindly donated by the University of Canterbury and Christchurch City Council.

We are expecting well over 100 scouts, cubs, keas, guides and rangers to pass through the door this weekend. We have tents for sleeping, Roger for cooking, Papabear for moderating, Andrew for organising and Ian for blogging!

It should be a fun weekend!