any chance of your votes?

[Mrs H]

Ooooo sounds too tricky for me - i've just posted it on the HOC forum reminding the non-nopers that Ben sang for us at the JK05 banter night. still got Mr H's 'puter and young Neville's to go yet

the deadline is 12,30 pm tomorrow

[jab]

It's not that tricky (if I can do it then it can't be too technically demanding). I'm managing to vote once every 4 minutes or so. Ben has just taken the lead on day 5.

[SJC]

But a bit of nosing around shows that it stores a cookie on your computer to say that you have voted.

To make everyone's life easier, what is the cookie called ?

[jab]

On Firefox I click on Tools, Options (from the drop down menu), then on the Privacy tab. Then I click on Show Cookies and amongst the long list of cookies there is a folder called

c905photocompetition.com

I just click on that and click on "remove cookies"

[Blanka]

Seems like a pointless exercise of who can get more friends to get round more computers and not about the merit of the photos at all. I voted for some of Ben's photos and some of the others depending on what I thought represented the given word best.

But maybe I'm just a bit of an idealist??

The organiser really needs to get the voters to provide an email address to avoid multiple votes from the same person...

[Mrs H]

Oh you mean like Steve Redgrave had to in order to become Sports Personalty of the Year through the pages of Rowers World (or whatever it's called). I don't think anyone thought he didn't deserve!

Ben is obviously my favourite photographer - he's the only one there i've met and he did me a favour - he gets my vote - it is unfortunate that some members of my family are being disenfrachised by the IP/Cookie conundrum. So some of these extra votes will redress that balance

[graeme]

Cookie

Good name for a cat, "Cookie"...

[SeanC]

Donna leads 4 days to 1, but she is only ahead by 1 or 2 percent in 3 of these days. Can the orienteers do it?

[SeanC]

Is the voting being rigged to make it more exciting?

It's now 3-2 to Donna. Ben is behind by 1% on two other days.

[Becks]

So close now - come on Ben!

[SeanC]

Donna ahead on one day. Ben on two days. A tie on the other two days.

Orienteers frantically running round uni and library computer rooms, or restarting your computers, remember your favourite motivational phrases!

[SeanC]

Assuming SonyEricsson have turned off their voting machines, and the results are correct as of 12.30, Ben has won.

[madmike]

Assuming SonyEricsson have turned off their voting machines, and the results are correct as of 12.30, Ben has won.

and here it is Well Done Ben:
About
Sony Ericsson gave 5 lucky people the chance to be named the Sony Ericsson Official Photographer 2009, attending a host of red carpets events and photographing some of the worlds biggest stars.

Each day our finalists, armed with their Sony Ericsson C905 Cyber-shot ™ 8.1 mega-pixel camera phones, were given a theme. Their challenge was to take a photograph that reflected this theme, we displayed them all here for the public to vote.

The challenges ran for a week from Monday 8th December until Friday 12th December and voting ended on Friday 19th December at 12pm.

Our Winner is Ben Roberts!
Well done to all of our finalists, the photos entered were all excellent. A big thank you also goes to everyone who voted.

[DIDSCO]

Great job everyone, and well done to Ben. We really went to war on that challenge.....Ben's gonna be a poor man for a long time with all those pints he's gonna owe us!

[SeanC]

Great late surge.

Ben - any pictures that would help local publicity would be really useful. Something that shows what the sport is about, gives a modern impression etc would be apprieciated.

Also if you could get Keanu Reeves and Catherine Zeta-Jones to come along to our next CATI that would be good too.