I received my T-shirt, certificate, and stickers on March 12th - but I only took pictures of my shirt. Enjoy!

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Last night I was pondering my lack of available storage space on my laptop and I got an idea. A program to help automate the process of sorting through pictures to find the bad ones,

• that will automatically scan for blurry or under-exposed (or other) photos after or during the process of uploading them to your computer,
• and then bring up a window with all of the ones it found and let you quickly review them, deselect any false positives, and then delete them with a click of a button.

Now obviously there would need to be settings to determine how blurry the images are allowed to be before the filter gets them (compulsive, moderate, sparing - names for the different levels), and you might even want it to be “smart” and learn what you like based on what you save.

It would be nice if there was a way to have it plug-in to Picasa, iPhoto, Photoshop (Bridge?), F-Spot, and others. That way when you use the “import photos” feature in them, it can automatically scan for undesirable pictures and tell the user that it found pictures that may be unwanted.

Edit:
A quick Google search turned up this:

Photology Makes Sorting Through Photos A Snap

My immediate solution was to convince Dad, that our family needed to be able to back-up all of our computers regularly and in an automated fashion, and that to do so we needed networked storage. Enter the Fantom G-Force MegaDisk NAS / RAID MDN1000. So I ordered it a few days ago from newegg.com and am now awaiting its arrival.

On other topics…

I finished my GHOP task (a while back) and now I’m looking for some actual programming task. Although I have not done any real programming before, I still understand some of the basics. I’m thinking of doing one of the Python tasks.

What is GHOP? According to their website:

Following on from the success of the Google Summer of Code program, Google is holding a contest for pre-university students (e.g., high school and secondary school students) with the aim of encouraging young people to participate in open source. We will work with ten open source organizations for this pilot effort, each of whom will provide a list of tasks to be completed by student contestants. Tasks can be anything a project needs help with, from bug fixes to writing documentation to user experience research.

I am working on one of the Drupal tasks (#68, a documentation task) right now and am enjoying it. Don’t wait! You can’t claim any more tasks after January 22, 2008, 12:00 AM Pacific Time.