Content updates (mostly fixing images)

content/Blog/creating-backgrounds-for-your-zune.md

@@ -8,24 +8,20 @@ On the Zune, any picture on the device can be set as the background for all of t
   * First, the image you choose will be cropped and displayed differently when your Zune is hooked up to output to a TV than it does when you are using the Zune normally.
   * Second, whenever you leave the main page the image is zoomed in a bit on all four sides.
 
-Given a 320 x 320 square photo, here is what happens when it is displayed in the four different ways (device screen home page, device screen zoomed in, TV home page and TV zoomed in). The outermost red rectangle is what you end up seeing on the Zune's screen when you are on the home page. This is the standard 240×320 image you'd expect, taken from the middle of the picture. The next smaller red rectangle is the slightly zoomed in image you'll see when you navigate to any page other than the home menu page.
+Given a 320 x 320 square photo, here is what happens when it is displayed in the four different ways (device screen home page, device screen zoomed in, TV home page and TV zoomed in). The outermost red rectangle is what you end up seeing on the Zune's screen when you are on the home page. This is the standard 240x320 image you'd expect, taken from the middle of the picture. The next smaller red rectangle is the slightly zoomed in image you'll see when you navigate to any page other than the home menu page.
 
- <img height="320" src="http://www.duncanmackenzie.net/images/WindowsLiveWriter/CreatingbackgroundsforyourZune_641/ZuneBackground320x320%5B7%5D.jpg" width="320" />
+![320 x 320 Zune background](/images/ZuneBackground320x320.jpg)
 
-When you hook up to a TV though, you may be surprised by the result. We expected the image, (given that it is 320&#215;320 originally) to be zoomed into an area that is 320 wide by 240 high... but instead, the home page screen displayed only the outer blue rectangle's worth of the image. This is an area of approximately 225px x 170px and even less (see the inner blue rectangle) when you navigate to another page while hooked up to the TV.
+When you hook up to a TV though, you may be surprised by the result. We expected the image, (given that it is 320x320 originally) to be zoomed into an area that is 320 wide by 240 high... but instead, the home page screen displayed only the outer blue rectangle's worth of the image. This is an area of approximately 225px x 170px and even less (see the inner blue rectangle) when you navigate to another page while hooked up to the TV.
 
+If you decide that the first issue matters to you (and it might not, TV output is not the main usage scenario for a Zune), then you need to make sure that a centered horizontal slice approximately two thirds the size of the image will still make a good background. If you don't care about TV out, then you can focus only on how the image looks at 240x320, which is what we did when making the Halo image shown below, but you still run into issues when the Zune zooms into your image on secondary menu pages.
 
+ ![Halo Background](http://www.on10.net/images/blogs/Halo3Zune.jpg)
 
-If you decide that the first issue matters to you (and it might not, TV output is not the main usage scenario for a Zune), then you need to make sure that a centered horizontal slice approximately two thirds the size of the image will still make a good background. If you don't care about TV out, then you can focus only on how the image looks at 240&#215;320, which is what we did when making the Halo image shown below, but you still run into issues when the Zune zooms into your image on secondary menu pages.
+With only a 240x320 image, you may see distortion when zoomed in; you can avoid this affect by creating your images at a slightly higher resolution while still maintaining a perfect ratio of 3:4 for the width and height. Following this plan, we created another copy of that same Halo image that works zoomed out as a background, looks good zoomed in, but doesn't look good at all when hooked up to a TV. This second background is 400px by 533px, but you could experiment with various resolutions to see which ones scale down the best on your Zune.
 
- ![](http://www.on10.net/images/blogs/Halo3Zune.jpg)
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-With only a 240&#215;320 image, you may see distortion when zoomed in; you can avoid this affect by creating your images at a slightly higher resolution while still maintaining a perfect ratio of 3:4 for the width and height. Following this plan, we created another copy of that same Halo image that works zoomed out as a background, looks good zoomed in, but doesn't look good at all when hooked up to a TV. This second background is 400px by 533px, but you could experiment with various resolutions to see which ones scale down the best on your Zune.
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- <img height="533" src="http://www.duncanmackenzie.net/images/WindowsLiveWriter/CreatingbackgroundsforyourZune_641/LargerHalo3Background%5B4%5D.jpg" width="400" />
+![Larger Halo background](/images/LargerHalo3Background.jpg)
 
 (both Halo images are cropped versions of a wallpaper from [360Style.net](http://360style.net/wallpapers28.html))
 
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 Once you have a picture (or pictures) created that you'd like to use as a background, put those pictures into one of the folders that your Zune software is monitoring (such as your My Pictures folder) then, when they appear in the library you can drag them onto the synclist and click "Start Sync" to get them onto your Zune. Disconnect your Zune after you've sync'd and browse to the picture and select it so that you are viewing it on your Zune. Click the center navigation button to bring up a menu listing what you can do with this image and pick the "apply as background" option. Hold down the back button to jump back to the home page and check out your creation!

content/Blog/cyrus-ruminates-on-the-revelations-of-teched-2004.md

@@ -3,10 +3,9 @@ date: 2004-05-28T04:34:00+00:00
 title: Cyrus ruminates on the revelations of TechEd 2004...
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-[ <img src="http://www.duncanmackenzie.net/images/Cyrus.jpg" border="0" /> ](http://www.duncanmackenzie.net/images/Cyrus_Eric_Ken.JPG" rel="lightbox[114]" title="Cyrus ruminates on the revelations of TechEd 2004...)
+![Cyrus ruminates on the revelations of TechEd 2004...](/images/Cyrus_Eric_Ken.JPG)
 
 [Cyrus](http://blogs.msdn.com/cyrusn), recent addition to the C# bloggers list and poster of many posts, has been blogging extensively from TechEd...
 
 > [OMGTHXURGR8!!!!](http://blogs.msdn.com/cyrusn/archive/2004/05/26/142729.aspx)
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 > _That's basically the message we got today concerning the work we're doing in the C# IDE for VS 2005. I ended up not being able to show people the new stuff on a person by person basis because we ended up getting too much of a backlog of people while that was happening. I ended up doing demos 10 people at a time instead. At first I thought it was because I had some awesome C# hats to give away, but then when people were staying even after I gave them out, I realized they were pretty psyched about the new features._

content/Blog/darth-potato-head-very-odd-but-that-wont-stop-me-from-ordering-one.md

@@ -3,10 +3,12 @@ date: 2005-01-23T08:18:00+00:00
 title: Darth Potato Head... very odd.. but that won't stop me from ordering one :)
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-[ <img src="http://rcm-images.amazon.com/images/P/B00061I4U6.01._TZZZZZZZ_" align="left" border="0" /> ](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00061I4U6/duncanmackenz-20?creative=327641&camp=14573&link_code=as1)I'm not sure if this is already over-hyped, but I just heard about it today so please forgive me if everyone is talking about this already 🙂
+[Darth Potato Head](http://rcm-images.amazon.com/images/P/B00061I4U6.01._TZZZZZZZ_)
 
-**
+I'm not sure if this is already over-hyped, but I just heard about it today so please forgive me if everyone is talking about this already 🙂
+
+---
 
 [Mr. Potato Head Darth Tater](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00061I4U6/duncanmackenz-20?creative=327641&camp=14573&link_code=as1)
 
-**
+---

content/Blog/day-1-of-pax-video-up-on-on10-net.md

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 Check out [the first day of PAX 2006](http://on10.net/Blogs/TheShow/5672/), including some footage of the first Penny Arcade Q&A session (learn about the new Wii60 console, coming to a store near you this year), some talk about women, and Tina's dirty dirty camera lens.
 
-[<img alt="The crowd pours in" src="http://static.flickr.com/80/227895204_9529e02db0_m.jpg" border="0" />](http://www.flickr.com/photos/86326874@N00/227895204/)
+![The crowd pours in](http://static.flickr.com/80/227895204_9529e02db0_m.jpg)

content/Blog/dig-dug-hits-the-xbox-live-arcade.md

@@ -2,8 +2,15 @@
 date: 2006-10-11T09:55:00+00:00
 title: Dig Dug hits the Xbox Live Arcade
 type: posts
+tags:
+ - Xbox
+ - Gaming
 ---
-[Fairly mixed response over on MajorNelson.com to this game](http://www.majornelson.com/archive/2006/10/10/Soon_3A00_-Dig-Dug.aspx), mostly either people who love it or people who are wishing we'd stop with the 'retro' games already... I'm a bit on the fence here myself, I like these games (Dig Dug, Time Pilot, Pac Man...) [<img alt="" hspace="0" src="http://static.flickr.com/93/221454813_a5af3ae0b1_m.jpg" align="right" border="0" />](http://www.flickr.com/photos/55732290@N00/221454813/ "")but I'm pretty disappointed that they've been left so ... 'pure' ... I mean, I think it would be cool to have an 'original' game mode that only uses a fraction of the pixels of my TV, but I would really like to see another mode (one that I think would be really popular) where the graphics really are on par with what we'd expect on a 360.
+[Fairly mixed response over on MajorNelson.com to this game](http://www.majornelson.com/archive/2006/10/10/Soon_3A00_-Dig-Dug.aspx), mostly either people who love it or people who are wishing we'd stop with the 'retro' games already... I'm a bit on the fence here myself, I like these games (Dig Dug, Time Pilot, Pac Man...)
+
+[Retro Arcade Games](http://static.flickr.com/93/221454813_a5af3ae0b1_m.jpg)
+
+but I'm pretty disappointed that they've been left so ... 'pure' ... I mean, I think it would be cool to have an 'original' game mode that only uses a fraction of the pixels of my TV, but I would really like to see another mode (one that I think would be really popular) where the graphics really are on par with what we'd expect on a 360.
 
 I'm not suggesting changing the game, making Dig Dug into a FPS or anything, just redoing the graphics to take advantage of a 720p screen. Hell, even just scaling the game screen up to fill more of my screen would make me happy... even if it stayed blocky 🙂
 

content/Blog/documentary-coming-about-mc-frontalot.md

@@ -5,6 +5,4 @@ type: posts
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 And the general geek-focused music world in general I suspect... but I only see Frontalot's name on there now.
 
-[<img src="http://static.flickr.com/23/37850136_ba16ab983d_m_d.jpg" />](http://www.flickr.com/photos/dalangalma/37850136/" target="_new" atomicselection="true)
-
 [Check out the description and trailer here](http://www.vaguelyqualifiedproductions.com/Projects%20Nerdcore.html)

content/Blog/dolomite-dolemite.md

@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ date: 2003-11-19T02:53:00+00:00
 title: Dolomite  Dolemite
 type: posts
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-Earlier today I posted some background pics... including some from [www.dolomitesworld.com](www.dolomitesworld.com)... Frank Redmond (Content Strategist for .NET Framework) just bust out laughing in my office because he thought I was posting backgrounds based on one of the many wonderful Dolemite films...
+Earlier today I posted some background pics... including some from [Dolomites World](www.dolomitesworld.com)... Frank Redmond (Content Strategist for .NET Framework) just bust out laughing in my office because he thought I was posting backgrounds based on one of the many wonderful Dolemite films...
 
-<img src="http://search.excaliburfilms.com/dvd/reviews/images456/ShaolinDolemite-TheMovie.jpg" border="0" />
+![Shaolin Dolemite](http://search.excaliburfilms.com/dvd/reviews/images456/ShaolinDolemite-TheMovie.jpg)
 
 I wasn't... but now Frank is bringing in a selection of movies for me to watch, as it seems that my cultural education is severely lacking in the "martial arts blaxploitation comedy" category

content/Blog/e3-2006-coverage-on10.md

@@ -2,7 +2,9 @@
 date: 2006-05-16T08:10:00+00:00
 title: E3 2006 Coverage on10
 type: posts
+tags:
+ - on10
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 Check out [yesterday's video on10](http://on10.net/TheShow/3010/), a tour of the Microsoft booth area at E3 2006!
 
-[<img src="http://www.duncanmackenzie.net/images/EyeCovering.jpg" border="0" />](http://on10.net/TheShow/3010/)
+![Laura and Tina, covering eyes](/images/EyeCovering.jpg)

content/Blog/endif-or-end-if.md

@@ -3,49 +3,14 @@ date: 2005-01-06T17:19:00+00:00
 title: EndIf or End If?
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-<table>
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-      <img src="http://msdn.microsoft.com/nodehomes/graphics/140x120/boxshot_vfp9.jpg" />
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-    <td>
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-        The recent annoucements around [Visual Fox Pro 9.0](http://msdn.microsoft.com/vfoxpro/productinfo/) have brought up a bunch of memories, and have me tempted to install VFP for the first time in years...
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-    </td>
-  </tr>
-</table>
+The recent announcements around [Visual Fox Pro 9.0](http://msdn.microsoft.com/vfoxpro/productinfo/) have brought up a bunch of memories, and have me tempted to install VFP for the first time in years...
 
 Whether or not you have a chance to give VFP 9 a try, if you are planning on getting into .NET or VB .NET specifically and have a FoxPro background like me, you'll probably find these books useful;
 
-<table>
-  <tr>
-    <td>
-      <img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0672326493.01.TZZZZZZZ.jpg" />
-    </td>
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-    <td>
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-        [Visual FoxPro to Visual Basic .NET, by Les Pinter](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0672326493/duncanmackenz-20?creative=327641&camp=14573&link_code=as1)
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-    </td>
-  </tr>
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-      <img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1930919301.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg" />
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-        [Microsoft .NET for Visual FoxPro Developers, by Kevin McNeish](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1930919301/duncanmackenz-20?dev-t=mason-wrapper%26camp=2025%26link_code=xm2)
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-    </td>
-  </tr>
-</table>
+* [Visual FoxPro to Visual Basic .NET, by Les Pinter](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0672326493/duncanmackenz-20?creative=327641&camp=14573&link_code=as1)
+* [Microsoft .NET for Visual FoxPro Developers, by Kevin McNeish](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1930919301/duncanmackenz-20?dev-t=mason-wrapper%26camp=2025%26link_code=xm2)
 
-I came to Microsoft's development products through FoxPro (2.6 for DOS), after having worked for a couple of years doing Clipper, DBase, RBase, etc... Eventually I ended up at FoxPro, and it was wonderful... After countless hours spent writing code that manually did joins of two file-based tables, having SQL right in the language was a beautiful thing. I spent so much time in FoxPro (for DOS and Windows, and for the Macintosh), mostly working on accounting systems and a TV contract management system (that ran on a network of PowerMacs), that the experience still affects my programming to this day. Whenever I type End If in a Visual Basic program (or VBA/Access), I type "EndIf" as one word (which is the FoxPro language keyword). EndIf is not correct syntax for VB, but the editor has always, and still does in Whidbey, automatically corrected this typo for me. So, as a testament to the negative side of auto-correct, **I have never really learned to type it the right way**. Not that I mind, but it does make me worry about kids happily mispelling words every time they use a computer to produce an essay for their teacher, and never even knowing they made a mistake.
+I came to Microsoft's development products through FoxPro (2.6 for DOS), after having worked for a couple of years doing Clipper, DBase, RBase, etc... Eventually I ended up at FoxPro, and it was wonderful... After countless hours spent writing code that manually did joins of two file-based tables, having SQL right in the language was a beautiful thing. I spent so much time in FoxPro (for DOS and Windows, and for the Macintosh), mostly working on accounting systems and a TV contract management system (that ran on a network of PowerMacs), that the experience still affects my programming to this day. Whenever I type End If in a Visual Basic program (or VBA/Access), I type "EndIf" as one word (which is the FoxPro language keyword). EndIf is not correct syntax for VB, but the editor has always, and still does in Whidbey, automatically corrected this typo for me. So, as a testament to the negative side of auto-correct, **I have never really learned to type it the right way**. Not that I mind, but it does make me worry about kids happily misspelling words every time they use a computer to produce an essay for their teacher, and never even knowing they made a mistake.
 
 Visual Fox Pro has always been a wonderful product, but I never really got to use it, because by the time it came out I had started using Visual Basic, and I've never really left that language since... I did a few projects in VFP here and there, and at times it seemed leaps and bounds ahead of VB, but I didn't choose the language of my projects back then, so using VFP was never really a consideration unless the customer requested it or they already had an existing FoxPro code base and I recommended a VFP solution.
 

content/Blog/eric-j-smiths-codesmith-utility.md

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 I use this program all the time, but I paved my machine recently and didn't have it installed... It took me awhile to figure out [the web site](http://www.ericjsmith.net/codesmith/) for the tool, so I thought I would post it for everyone's enjoyment!
 
-[<img src="http://www.ericjsmith.net/codesmith/image/BuiltWithCodeSmith1.gif" border="0" />](http://www.ericjsmith.net/codesmith/)
-
 For those that haven't had the pleasure of using this utility, here is a quick description:
 
 > CodeSmith is a FREEWARE template-based code generator that can generate code for any ASCII-based language. CodeSmith templates use a syntax nearly identical to ASP.NET syntax so that creating templates should feel immediately familiar to ASP.NET developers.

content/Blog/feeling-nostalgic-for-my-intellivision-for-some-reason-today.md

@@ -2,10 +2,14 @@
 date: 2007-04-02T09:12:00+00:00
 title: Feeling nostalgic for my Intellivision for some reason today...
 type: posts
+tags:
+ - Gaming
 ---
 I think it was playing Chargeball in [Meet the Robinsons](http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/m/meettherobinsons/default.htm), but for whatever reason I started thinking about this
 
-[<img height="200" src="http://www.duncanmackenzie.net/images/7065efa9-4fdd-45fb-85a8-002727cfb794.gif" width="320" />](http://www.mobygames.com/game/intellivision/tron-deadly-discs" target="_new" atomicselection="true)
+![Tron Deadly Discs](/images/7065efa9-4fdd-45fb-85a8-002727cfb794.gif)
+
+[Tron Deadly Discs Game Info page on Moby Games](http://www.mobygames.com/game/intellivision/tron-deadly-discs)
 
 I loved the breaking glass sound when I broke an enemy's disc or threw my disc through the recognizer's eye... mmm.... good times 🙂