Schonhose

At January 1st, 2009 I want to compile a list of images which have high ratings on my photoblog. The top 40 most rated images will be compiled into a real-life book.

However, compiling such a list proved to be a nice challenge based upon the information stored in the database. Currently all images have three types of statistics: Number of votes, Total rating and Averaged rating. In this case I couldn’t just sort on the Averaged rating, since images with only one vote but with a five star rating will float to the top. So basically I had to do something with the number of votes for each image.

Since the maximum rating for my blog is 5 stars I decided to divide each average rating by this maximum rating. The result is then multiplied by the number of votes. This will give a weighted rating based upon both the average rating and the number of votes.

Sorting on this results gives me a list of the top rated images which will be in a book after January 1st, 2009. Please vote for your favorite images over at my photoblog and see if your image makes it into the book.

Curious which images are currently in the book? Take a look at this crude and unstyled output of the top40 script.

If you like my photoblog (located at http://foto.schonhose.nl) then please vote for me over at Cool Photoblogs.

For your convenience I have included an image below, click this to vote.

If you want to see my profile and give me some cool points: click here for my profile.

A few weeks back I noticed the battery life of my iPod 3G was quickly deteriorating. After charging the iPod for several hours I could only use it for an hour or so. So I decided I needed a battery replacement and what better way to find one than on Ebay?

I found a replacement battery from a shop in the UK which would set me back 8 Euro including shipping. Since I felt that was a reasonable price I bought the item and the waiting began.

It took nearly two and a half weeks to arrive, but eventually it did came. Today I managed to free up some time and replace the battery. The instructions on the small piece of paper were short and unclear, so I search the web for some more info. Luckily youtube.com has lots of videos dealing with the replacement of an iPod battery. So after 10 minutes (of which 3 minutes and 30 second was used to watch the video) I had a new battery inside my iPod.

Since it is now happily loading in the dock I got some time to close some tickets of Pixelpost.

I know this is an oldie, but this commercial remains brilliant!

I’m an avid fan of the work of Scott Kelby and a frequent visitor of his blog. I purchased the 7-Point System for Adobe Photoshop CS3 book he wrote to set up a workflow for Adobe Photoshop. In that particular post I also mentioned I needed to setup a good workflow for Lightroom as well.

With the release of Lightroom 2.0 Scott has updated his book to the latest version of Lightroom. So I decided to buy this version and have a stab at setting up the workflow. It finally arrived in my mail today and I’m pretty excited to get started on it.

Read more about the book over at Kelby Training. I consider it a must-have ever since reading the 7 point system for Photoshop.