Marcus's Musings

I seem to be failing miserably in my aim of blogging original content more frequently... but at least here are a selection of interesting links to keep your brain ticking over:

Photographer Seeks Resolution
You think your 4 megapixel camera takes good photos? Check out what this guy's 4 *gigapixel* ultra-high resolution digital camera produces!

The cranky user: Performance anxiety (Where does all the processing speed go?)
Despite incredible advancements in hardware technology - most of us now have a 2GHz+ computer on our desks (or perhaps even on our lap) with number-crunching capabilities which were only available from supercomputers 10 years ago - Windows and Office are still dog slow! Why hasn't our day-to-day PC experience improved?

Using SQL Server's XML Support
An thorough guide to SQL Server's XML features, nothing new, just well-written and all in one place!

The Dollars and Sense of Building to Standards
A look at the real-world (i.e. economic and practical) advantages of building to web standards. As an aside, I did notice the use of user-agent stats of questionably reliability - see my post in the comments.

CodeCon 2005 has been and gone, bringing some very interesting projects to light:
- Incoherence, a realtime stereo imaging visualisation tool (available as a plugin for Winamp, iTunes, Media Player, etc)
- Mappr and PhotoSpace, two projects which attempt to correlate photos to geographic locations, and leverage existing mapping (and other) services to this end.

And finally...
Marijuana makes blood rush to the head
Interesting new research... and a possible world record? 50 joints a day?! Crazy (man)!