](http://www.duncanmackenzie.net/images/WindowsLiveWriter/30morehoursofOblivioncoming...wow_D8AE/ShiveringIsles%5B5%5D.jpg" atomicselection="true" rel="lightbox[581]" title="30 more hours of Oblivion coming... wow...)
+> 
I have to say that Oblivion is still the best 360 game I own, and it just keeps getting better.
diff --git a/content/Blog/a-bug-in-my-rss-generator-but-is-it-really-invalid.md b/content/Blog/a-bug-in-my-rss-generator-but-is-it-really-invalid.md
index d9629abb..6c721d95 100644
--- a/content/Blog/a-bug-in-my-rss-generator-but-is-it-really-invalid.md
+++ b/content/Blog/a-bug-in-my-rss-generator-but-is-it-really-invalid.md
@@ -31,6 +31,6 @@ The RSS generator for MSDN, creator of [this feed](http://msdn.microsoft.com/rss
-This generally works fine, I make a HEAD request with that URL which gives me back the MIME type and the Content Length, both of which are needed for the enclosure element in the RSS item. Sometimes though, people put in a URL to the download's landing page, not the download itself. There are good reasons for this, as the download page often contains useful information and/or multiple localized versions of the download, but it was not what I expected. In this case, I put the enclosure in with the MIME type I get back from that URL, which ends up being ‘text/html' and with a byte size that reflects the size of the landing page.
+This generally works fine, I make a HEAD request with that URL which gives me back the MIME type and the Content Length, both of which are needed for the enclosure element in the RSS item. Sometimes though, people put in a URL to the download's landing page, not the download itself. There are good reasons for this, as the download page often contains useful information and/or multiple localized versions of the download, but it was not what I expected. In this case, I put the enclosure in with the MIME type I get back from that URL, which ends up being 'text/html' and with a byte size that reflects the size of the landing page.
This wasn't really what I wanted to happen, so I need to figure out a solution at my end, but what I noticed today and what has me a little puzzled is that at least two different validators ([here](http://rss.scripting.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmsdn.microsoft.com%2Frss.xml) and [here](http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmsdn.microsoft.com%2Frss.xml)) report these types of entries as validation errors. The error they specify is that text/html is not a valid MIME type.... but, according to [the RFC(s)](http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2854.txt) (see 4.1.2 of [this RFC](http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2046.txt)) and other sources, it most certainly **is** a valid type. So, is there a hidden rule in RSS that enclosures have to fall within some special subset of MIME types, or are both of these validators broken? Sure, in this case it wasn't really what I wanted, but what if I really did have a text/html document for you to download?
diff --git a/content/Blog/a-couple-more-team-members-post-details-about-our-new-project.md b/content/Blog/a-couple-more-team-members-post-details-about-our-new-project.md
index bb59b534..d4df1c49 100644
--- a/content/Blog/a-couple-more-team-members-post-details-about-our-new-project.md
+++ b/content/Blog/a-couple-more-team-members-post-details-about-our-new-project.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2006-03-08T08:03:00+00:00
-title: A couple more team members post details about our new project…
+title: A couple more team members post details about our new project...
type: posts
---
Adam Kinney, another member of our three-person dev team, [posts our favorite comments](http://www.adamkinney.com/note.aspx?id=112) about [the preview site ](http://on10.net)so far. Scoble, who really is on the same team as me... despite the fact that I've hardly ever seen him :)... also [discusses what we have been up to](http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/2006/03/07/what-my-coworkers-have-been-doing/#respond).
diff --git a/content/Blog/a-couple-of-days-late-in-seeing-it-but-brian-has-annouced-his-departure-from-msdn.md b/content/Blog/a-couple-of-days-late-in-seeing-it-but-brian-has-annouced-his-departure-from-msdn.md
index 9fc1b9f5..d2fd8543 100644
--- a/content/Blog/a-couple-of-days-late-in-seeing-it-but-brian-has-annouced-his-departure-from-msdn.md
+++ b/content/Blog/a-couple-of-days-late-in-seeing-it-but-brian-has-annouced-his-departure-from-msdn.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2005-12-13T18:17:00+00:00
-title: A couple of days late in seeing it… but Brian has annouced his departure from MSDN
+title: A couple of days late in seeing it... but Brian has annouced his departure from MSDN
type: posts
---
First [Kent](http://blogs.duncanmackenzie.net/duncanma/archive/2005/11/11/3255.aspx), now [Brian](http://spaces.msn.com/members/brianjo/Blog/cns!1ph41gaeDxp9TA2G5t8Gj1DA!415.entry)... it seems like it would be a great time to [apply for a job as a Content Strategist](http://blogs.msdn.com/mpowell/default.aspx) 🙂
diff --git a/content/Blog/a-letter-to-north-dakota-by-randy-sarafan.md b/content/Blog/a-letter-to-north-dakota-by-randy-sarafan.md
index 8845eeec..28a16eea 100644
--- a/content/Blog/a-letter-to-north-dakota-by-randy-sarafan.md
+++ b/content/Blog/a-letter-to-north-dakota-by-randy-sarafan.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2006-04-21T07:59:00+00:00
-title: A letter to North Dakota by Randy Sarafan…
+title: A letter to North Dakota by Randy Sarafan...
type: posts
---
I was browsing around on [Randy's web site](http://www.randywritesletters.com/portfolio/) after reading about an upcoming session of his at Makers Faire (hacking USB keyboards!!), and I found this: [http://www.randywritesletters.com/005.html](http://www.randywritesletters.com/005.html)
diff --git a/content/Blog/a-little-bit-more-on-int32-vs-integer.md b/content/Blog/a-little-bit-more-on-int32-vs-integer.md
index fe46caa4..c91aa415 100644
--- a/content/Blog/a-little-bit-more-on-int32-vs-integer.md
+++ b/content/Blog/a-little-bit-more-on-int32-vs-integer.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2003-04-06T10:57:00+00:00
-title: A little ‘bit’ more on Int32 vs Integer
+title: A little 'bit' more on Int32 vs Integer
type: posts
---
[Darren's](http://dotnetweblogs.com/DNeimke) comments on [my previous post:](http://dotnetweblogs.com/duncanma/Posts/4921.aspx)
diff --git a/content/Blog/a-little-off-topic-but-verizon-sucks.md b/content/Blog/a-little-off-topic-but-verizon-sucks.md
index d011ba53..1a1b90f1 100644
--- a/content/Blog/a-little-off-topic-but-verizon-sucks.md
+++ b/content/Blog/a-little-off-topic-but-verizon-sucks.md
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
---
date: 2003-07-06T03:56:00+00:00
-title: A little off-topic, but …. “Verizon Sucks”
+title: A little off-topic, but .... "Verizon Sucks"
type: posts
---
-I'm sure I've worked with more disorganized and unprofessional companies, although I can't think of any, but I certainly haven't continued to work with them... but I'm fairly stuck with Verizon.
+I'm sure I've worked with more disorganized and unprofessional companies, although I can't think of any, but I certainly haven't continued to work with them... but I'm fairly stuck with Verizon.
I just moved into a new house, only a few minutes away from my apartment, and I called Verizon to arrange for the move of the phone and DSL (both through them). They were very nice on the phone and arranged to move both as of the 3rd of July... although they had to transfer me to a 2nd person to arrange the DSL, because it seems they are essentially two different companies. Fine, whatever, I might find that need to have 2 people talk to me silly, but it isn't a big deal. I told both people the same thing.... moving on July 3rd, need service at the new location. The phone would be up sometime in the morning and DSL would be active "on the 3rd". Peachy.
diff --git a/content/Blog/a-love-little-samples-like-this.md b/content/Blog/a-love-little-samples-like-this.md
index 62479ce5..0bade5a5 100644
--- a/content/Blog/a-love-little-samples-like-this.md
+++ b/content/Blog/a-love-little-samples-like-this.md
@@ -1,35 +1,19 @@
---
date: 2004-06-10T10:02:00+00:00
-title: A love little samples like this…
+title: I love little samples like this...
type: posts
---
From [Justin Rogers](http://weblogs.asp.net/justin_rogers)
-
-
-
-
- 
](http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=338082" atomicselection="true)
+
It will be interesting to see if (or more accurately, how long before) someone turns this to malicious purposes.
diff --git a/content/Blog/added-some-additional-info-to-each-post-from-my-blog-a-bookmark-this-with-del-icio-us-link-and-the-oh-so-trendy-tags.md b/content/Blog/added-some-additional-info-to-each-post-from-my-blog-a-bookmark-this-with-del-icio-us-link-and-the-oh-so-trendy-tags.md
index 265c652b..a70e07fb 100644
--- a/content/Blog/added-some-additional-info-to-each-post-from-my-blog-a-bookmark-this-with-del-icio-us-link-and-the-oh-so-trendy-tags.md
+++ b/content/Blog/added-some-additional-info-to-each-post-from-my-blog-a-bookmark-this-with-del-icio-us-link-and-the-oh-so-trendy-tags.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2005-12-21T19:13:00+00:00
-title: Added some additional info to each post from my blog, a “bookmark this with Del.icio.us” link and the oh-so-trendy ‘tags’
+title: Added some additional info to each post from my blog, a "bookmark this with Del.icio.us" link and the oh-so-trendy 'tags'
type: posts
---
Check out a [single entry view](http://blogs.duncanmackenzie.net/duncanma/archive/2005/12/12/3380.aspx) on my site to see the new additions
diff --git a/content/Blog/added-some-forums-to-discuss-free-sites-congas-etc.md b/content/Blog/added-some-forums-to-discuss-free-sites-congas-etc.md
index d8904e1a..fd14fe0c 100644
--- a/content/Blog/added-some-forums-to-discuss-free-sites-congas-etc.md
+++ b/content/Blog/added-some-forums-to-discuss-free-sites-congas-etc.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2005-02-01T08:56:00+00:00
-title: Added some forums to discuss free sites, congas, etc….
+title: Added some forums to discuss free sites, congas, etc....
type: posts
---
Wanted to get this into a better place for discussion than my blog comments.... new forums [here](http://www.duncanmackenzie.net/Forums/default.aspx?ForumGroupID=5) ... I should warn you though that I've been having a ton of errors with the Forum code of late though. I've even turned on full errors (bad, bad, duncan) as part of a desperate attempt to track down an annoying error in AspNetForums.Components.SiteUrls.LocationKey() ...
diff --git a/content/Blog/added-support-for-soapbox-videos-on-channel-9.md b/content/Blog/added-support-for-soapbox-videos-on-channel-9.md
index 49724eda..ddb801fa 100644
--- a/content/Blog/added-support-for-soapbox-videos-on-channel-9.md
+++ b/content/Blog/added-support-for-soapbox-videos-on-channel-9.md
@@ -2,13 +2,17 @@
date: 2007-08-30T02:34:00+00:00
title: Added Support for Soapbox Videos on Channel 9
type: posts
+tags:
+ - Channel9
+ - Microsoft
+ - Video
---
When I started on the C9 dev team, one of the first things I did was to **remove** the ability for users to post embed, object and script tags. We had a couple of people abusing this feature and I wanted to lock it right down. The downside to this move was that it prevented some forms of user interaction/posts that we didn't really mind and in some cases would even like to encourage.
As a small step towards a more community-driven future, [I added support to C9 today to allow you to embed Soapbox videos in any forum post](http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=338082). Simple use the following markup in your post:
-[soapbox video="(soapbox video id)"]
+`[soapbox video="(soapbox video id)"]`
-[
](http://www.duncanmackenzie.net/images/8c137ad7-737a-4ae6-9a2b-08156604e749.png" atomicselection="true" rel="lightbox[521]" title="image)
+
and it will turn it into a full blown embed tag with a link to the source material underneath. The Soapbox video id is simply the GUID that appears on the permalink url (
](http://www.flickr.com/photos/duncanma/326944658/ "Photo Sharing")The storm itself ripped through our area with a fair amount of damage, taking down one of the biggest trees in the area right across the street from us, and knocking down one of the evergreens in our own yard. No damage to our house, but the big tree across the street managed to clip a house on the way down and tear a hole in it's roof. Fun stuff. [Lots of photos on Flickr about this...](http://www.flickr.com/photos/54156810@N00/sets/72157594423999231/)
-Right now, I just want power... the majority of folks in the Puget Sound have power back, but our area is listed as ‘one of the most severely damaged' and we aren't expected to have power restored for another 3 to 5 days. The kids are holding up great, but on today, day 4 without power, the adults are becoming quite testy...
+Right now, I just want power... the majority of folks in the Puget Sound have power back, but our area is listed as 'one of the most severely damaged' and we aren't expected to have power restored for another 3 to 5 days. The kids are holding up great, but on today, day 4 without power, the adults are becoming quite testy...
-I'm holding onto hope that power will snap back on before the estimated times they've given us, assuming those times are ‘worst case' guesses. Of course, the kids are safe and warm under the blankets at home... I'm at the office with the Starbucks iCup in full working order... things aren't really too bad.
+I'm holding onto hope that power will snap back on before the estimated times they've given us, assuming those times are 'worst case' guesses. Of course, the kids are safe and warm under the blankets at home... I'm at the office with the Starbucks iCup in full working order... things aren't really too bad.
diff --git a/content/Blog/aggghhh-im-melting.md b/content/Blog/aggghhh-im-melting.md
index b678a6c1..eef267a1 100644
--- a/content/Blog/aggghhh-im-melting.md
+++ b/content/Blog/aggghhh-im-melting.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2005-02-25T17:13:00+00:00
-title: aggghhh… I’m melting…
+title: aggghhh... I'm melting...
type: posts
---
_or am I being scribbled?_
diff --git a/content/Blog/ah-the-web-it-can-change-so-quickly.md b/content/Blog/ah-the-web-it-can-change-so-quickly.md
index e71c3a86..628ad295 100644
--- a/content/Blog/ah-the-web-it-can-change-so-quickly.md
+++ b/content/Blog/ah-the-web-it-can-change-so-quickly.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2006-01-17T16:44:00+00:00
-title: Ah the web, it can change so quickly…
+title: Ah the web, it can change so quickly...
type: posts
---
Yesterday [I posted about the use of the feed icon](http://blogs.duncanmackenzie.net/duncanma/archive/2006/01/16/3548.aspx) on [Media Center Sandbox](http://blog.mediacentersandbox.com/" title="Media Center Sandbox) and suggested a few changes. Last night, I get an email from [Charlie Owen](http://blog.retrosight.com/), one of the principals of the sandbox site, and the site is completely updated. Now, I don't know if I caused any change or if the change was just in the works anyway.... but regardless, I like the new look and the [icons](http://www.feedicons.com" title="Site about the feed icon) look great!
diff --git a/content/Blog/alfred-thompson-discusses-laptops-in-the-classroom.md b/content/Blog/alfred-thompson-discusses-laptops-in-the-classroom.md
index 815d34da..3ba1ffab 100644
--- a/content/Blog/alfred-thompson-discusses-laptops-in-the-classroom.md
+++ b/content/Blog/alfred-thompson-discusses-laptops-in-the-classroom.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2006-09-18T18:01:00+00:00
-title: Alfred Thompson discusses "Laptops in the classroom"
+title: Alfred Thompson discusses "Laptops in the classroom"
type: posts
---
In a recent post on Microsoft 10, [Alfred talks about the idea and controversy around having students equipped with laptops](http://on10.net/Blogs/Education/6747/). Check out his post for the full details, but to summarize... it can work well, but it has to be done right, with the right software and teachers... I agree with Alfred on this, but I also think it isn't that big of a surprise. This same concept applies in just about everything whether it is software engineering, fitness or even lawn care. The same technology or plan can succeed or fail because of some aspect of the implementation. The right tools are important, but it is more important that people plan carefully and are ready to make the most of whatever technology they are using or deploying.
diff --git a/content/Blog/alienware-adds-another-reason-to-buy-their-pcs-star-wars-themed-pcs.md b/content/Blog/alienware-adds-another-reason-to-buy-their-pcs-star-wars-themed-pcs.md
index 131522a6..a368d471 100644
--- a/content/Blog/alienware-adds-another-reason-to-buy-their-pcs-star-wars-themed-pcs.md
+++ b/content/Blog/alienware-adds-another-reason-to-buy-their-pcs-star-wars-themed-pcs.md
@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
---
date: 2005-05-01T15:38:00+00:00
-title: Alienware adds another reason to buy their PCs… Star Wars themed PCs
+title: Alienware adds another reason to buy their PCs... Star Wars themed PCs
type: posts
---
If I ever get an Alienware machine, I suspect it would be [their Media Center machine](http://www.alienware.com/dhs_main.aspx?from=Duncanma:dhs_pc_banner_468x60&cs=0), but the preview images of these [new Star Wars machines](http://www.alienware.com/Starwars_Pages/teaser.aspx?from=Duncanma:gaming_pc_banner_468x60&cs=0) are quite tempting.
[
](http://www.alienware.com/starwars_pages/awswaurora.aspx?from=Duncanma:gaming_pc_banner_468x60&cs=0) [
](http://www.alienware.com/starwars_pages/awswaurora.aspx?from=Duncanma:gaming_pc_banner_468x60&cs=0)
-I wish they had a single PC though, not light/dark versions, I love the images they've used for both... it would be cool to have each ‘side' represented on the opposite sides of the PC. I'm sure they'll never split the case out on its own, as the whole point of this PC is to get you to pick up their highest-end PC just because you can't resist the themed version. In fact, if you were a true fan you'd probably need to pick up both 🙂
+I wish they had a single PC though, not light/dark versions, I love the images they've used for both... it would be cool to have each 'side' represented on the opposite sides of the PC. I'm sure they'll never split the case out on its own, as the whole point of this PC is to get you to pick up their highest-end PC just because you can't resist the themed version. In fact, if you were a true fan you'd probably need to pick up both 🙂
No price yet on these boxes, but I'm sure the old adage of "if you have to ask..." probably applies in this situation.
-_**Update**: the price is available now, and it actually seems much more reasonable than I had thought... starts at 1500 with specs that few folks would be really happy with and although it ranges up to $5000 (approx) with all the options, I spec'd one at 2235 that seemed pretty reasonable (put the ram up to 2GB, jumped the processor up a bit from the base, upped the hardrive from 80GB to 250GB... added the ‘alien ice' cooling system). Still no plans to buy one, but it doesn't seem quite as far-fetched as I had originally thought._
+_**Update**: the price is available now, and it actually seems much more reasonable than I had thought... starts at 1500 with specs that few folks would be really happy with and although it ranges up to $5000 (approx) with all the options, I spec'd one at 2235 that seemed pretty reasonable (put the ram up to 2GB, jumped the processor up a bit from the base, upped the hardrive from 80GB to 250GB... added the 'alien ice' cooling system). Still no plans to buy one, but it doesn't seem quite as far-fetched as I had originally thought._
diff --git a/content/Blog/allegiance-code-now-available.md b/content/Blog/allegiance-code-now-available.md
index 2eaddd00..c763e738 100644
--- a/content/Blog/allegiance-code-now-available.md
+++ b/content/Blog/allegiance-code-now-available.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2004-02-08T08:56:00+00:00
-title: Allegiance Code now available….
+title: Allegiance Code now available....
type: posts
---
I loved Allegiance, it was beautiful, fun and incorporated a lot of neat multiplayer concepts that I enjoyed (like being able to have one player in a gun turret on your destroyer and another acting as the pilot).... but it withered away for some reason... I was never sure why, and a lot of its fans seemed to share my confusion.... Ah well, in the end Microsoft Research (yep, the game came from Microsoft Research, how cool is that?) have decided to release the source code so that it may live on even though they are no longer working on it.
diff --git a/content/Blog/amazon-unbox-on-tivo.md b/content/Blog/amazon-unbox-on-tivo.md
index dc83319b..0e21fde9 100644
--- a/content/Blog/amazon-unbox-on-tivo.md
+++ b/content/Blog/amazon-unbox-on-tivo.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2007-03-12T22:40:00+00:00
-title: Amazon Unbox on Tivo…
+title: Amazon Unbox on Tivo...
type: posts
---
I like [this idea](http://www.tivo.com/4.9.24.asp)... I'd like it more on a Media Center box, but I still like the idea
diff --git a/content/Blog/amazon-web-services-4-0-what-are-you-using-them-for.md b/content/Blog/amazon-web-services-4-0-what-are-you-using-them-for.md
index 51e6f3b7..e189ddff 100644
--- a/content/Blog/amazon-web-services-4-0-what-are-you-using-them-for.md
+++ b/content/Blog/amazon-web-services-4-0-what-are-you-using-them-for.md
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
---
date: 2004-09-19T08:10:00+00:00
-title: Amazon Web Services 4.0 … what are you using them for?
+title: Amazon Web Services 4.0 ... what are you using them for?
type: posts
---
-I took Scott Watermasysk's [‘book control' ](http://scottwater.com/blog/articles/BookControl.aspx)and modified it recently to display more than one book (moving it to VB.NET along the way), and I reduced the file it pulls from down to just a list of ISBN #s.... but then I wasn't able to display the title of the book as a tooltip (like the original does)... so I signed up for [Amazon's web services](http://www.amazon.com/gp/aws/landing.html/ref=gw1_mm_4/104-8667232-8399159) and added some code to pull the book's info through the web services and cache it for use in the control.
+I took Scott Watermasysk's ['book control' ](http://scottwater.com/blog/articles/BookControl.aspx)and modified it recently to display more than one book (moving it to VB.NET along the way), and I reduced the file it pulls from down to just a list of ISBN #s.... but then I wasn't able to display the title of the book as a tooltip (like the original does)... so I signed up for [Amazon's web services](http://www.amazon.com/gp/aws/landing.html/ref=gw1_mm_4/104-8667232-8399159) and added some code to pull the book's info through the web services and cache it for use in the control.
Neat, yes... simple to code, even.... but totally illogical.
diff --git a/content/Blog/an-interesting-response-to-my-database-usage-poll.md b/content/Blog/an-interesting-response-to-my-database-usage-poll.md
index 59c2624a..d11674d0 100644
--- a/content/Blog/an-interesting-response-to-my-database-usage-poll.md
+++ b/content/Blog/an-interesting-response-to-my-database-usage-poll.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2004-10-02T03:58:00+00:00
-title: An interesting response to my database usage poll…
+title: An interesting response to my database usage poll...
type: posts
---
[Mike Dimmick comments on SQL Server's licensing policy and compares it to Oracle... ](http://blogs.duncanmackenzie.net/duncanma/archive/2004/09/24/695.aspx#738)which puzzled me. I'm no licensing expert, but from my days in MCS I used to read up on Oracle a bit and it seemed to me that they used a similar model to ours in determining per-user licensing costs. So I looked it up.
@@ -9,4 +9,4 @@ Oracle's per-user pricing is defined as per "Named User Plus"... from their own
> _"Named User Plus: is defined as an individual authorized by you to use the programs which are installed on a single server or multiple servers, regardless of whether the individual is actively using the programs at any given time. A non human operated device will be counted as a named user plus in addition to all individuals authorized to use the programs, if such devices can access the programs. If multiplexing hardware or software (e.g., a TP monitor or a web server product) is used, this number must be measured at the multiplexing front end. Automated batching of data from computer to computer is permitted. You are responsible for ensuring that the named user plus per processor minimums are maintained for the programs contained in the user minimum table in the licensing rules section; the minimums table provides for the minimum number of named users plus required and all actual users must be licensed."_
-So, Mike may think SQL Server's pricing is ‘perverse', but it is the normal method of licensing database servers. Oracle included. The relevant line is here **"If multiplexing hardware or software (e.g., a TP monitor or a web server product) is used, this number must be measured at the multiplexing front end."**. It is my experience that SQL Server or Oracle being used behind a web server should generally follow the per-processor licensing model, not a per-user model.
+So, Mike may think SQL Server's pricing is 'perverse', but it is the normal method of licensing database servers. Oracle included. The relevant line is here **"If multiplexing hardware or software (e.g., a TP monitor or a web server product) is used, this number must be measured at the multiplexing front end."**. It is my experience that SQL Server or Oracle being used behind a web server should generally follow the per-processor licensing model, not a per-user model.
diff --git a/content/Blog/and-now-for-the-last.md b/content/Blog/and-now-for-the-last.md
index 87c8f746..eda0b7e8 100644
--- a/content/Blog/and-now-for-the-last.md
+++ b/content/Blog/and-now-for-the-last.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2003-08-12T22:41:00+00:00
-title: And now for the last…
+title: And now for the last...
type: posts
---
With this final bit of text, this is the whole article... before any of your comments... and before my wonderful editor (Henry Borys) has attacked it. If you were to take the content from these blog entries and diff it with the published article... you'll see the amazing impact that a good editor can have on your writing.
diff --git a/content/Blog/and-speaking-of-mike-harsh.md b/content/Blog/and-speaking-of-mike-harsh.md
index 9d922b4b..1cf8acf3 100644
--- a/content/Blog/and-speaking-of-mike-harsh.md
+++ b/content/Blog/and-speaking-of-mike-harsh.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2003-03-19T11:44:00+00:00
-title: And speaking of Mike Harsh…
+title: And speaking of Mike Harsh...
type: posts
---
It seems he managed to get his cool shaped control library
diff --git a/content/Blog/anders-chalk-talk-today-at-2pm-to-315pm-at-teched-2004.md b/content/Blog/anders-chalk-talk-today-at-2pm-to-315pm-at-teched-2004.md
index a3f3abfc..8f73369c 100644
--- a/content/Blog/anders-chalk-talk-today-at-2pm-to-315pm-at-teched-2004.md
+++ b/content/Blog/anders-chalk-talk-today-at-2pm-to-315pm-at-teched-2004.md
@@ -2,10 +2,11 @@
date: 2004-05-26T22:05:00+00:00
title: Anders Chalk Talk today at 2pm to 3:15pm (at TechEd 2004)
type: posts
+tags:
+ - Microsoft
---
Swing by **Cabana 5** today (May 26) at 2pm if you want to chat with Anders.... Erica Weichers is here and is going to try and record it, but if you are at TechEd you should come on by.
-
+
_(Just in case you don't know the name: Anders Hejlsberg is the designer of_ [_the C# language_](http://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp/language)_... so if you are into C#, you'd probably enjoy listening to his talk)_
-
diff --git a/content/Blog/andrew-troelsens-refactoring-article-is-up.md b/content/Blog/andrew-troelsens-refactoring-article-is-up.md
index 52ba6fea..5a40070f 100644
--- a/content/Blog/andrew-troelsens-refactoring-article-is-up.md
+++ b/content/Blog/andrew-troelsens-refactoring-article-is-up.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2004-07-10T10:03:00+00:00
-title: Andrew Troelsen’s Refactoring Article is up…
+title: Andrew Troelsen's Refactoring Article is up...
type: posts
---
](http://www.assaultheroesgame.com/" target="_new" atomicselection="true) I don't know about you, but I'm pretty impressed with the recent set of non-retro, original games for Xbox Live Arcade: Small Arms, RoboBlitz and now [Assault Heroes](http://www.assaultheroesgame.com/)
diff --git a/content/Blog/atari-ceo-no-ps3-games-before-2007-joystiq.md b/content/Blog/atari-ceo-no-ps3-games-before-2007-joystiq.md
index 59639dec..1c53741e 100644
--- a/content/Blog/atari-ceo-no-ps3-games-before-2007-joystiq.md
+++ b/content/Blog/atari-ceo-no-ps3-games-before-2007-joystiq.md
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
---
date: 2006-08-03T06:01:00+00:00
-title: 'Atari CEO: No PS3 games before 2007 – Joystiq'
+title: 'Atari CEO: No PS3 games before 2007 – Joystiq'
type: posts
---
-I was surprised early to hear that God of War II was a PS2 game... and now [this](http://www.joystiq.com/2006/08/02/atari-ceo-no-atari-ps3-games-before-2007/)? I think it just the price that is scaring developers... scary to develop for a console that **seems** out of the price range of your target audience. I say "seems" because despite my own (biased) negative thoughts about the PS3, I expect it to be a pretty impressive machine... one that quite a few people will pick up. I do agree with other people's predictions that it will lag behind the 360, the $$ will see to that, but I don't think anyone expects it to flop...
+I was surprised early to hear that God of War II was a PS2 game... and now [this](http://www.joystiq.com/2006/08/02/atari-ceo-no-atari-ps3-games-before-2007/)? I think it just the price that is scaring developers... scary to develop for a console that **seems** out of the price range of your target audience. I say "seems" because despite my own (biased) negative thoughts about the PS3, I expect it to be a pretty impressive machine... one that quite a few people will pick up. I do agree with other people's predictions that it will lag behind the 360, the $$ will see to that, but I don't think anyone expects it to flop...
I don't think I'll end up getting a PS2 though, as tempting as it is at the low-low refurbished prices you can find it at now; the idea was to pick up a used one and an EyeToy and then try to lose some weight playing Kinetic... but all that work for one game seems like a bad idea. Instead I need to find some way to do some mild exercise while playing **any** game on my 360. It wouldn't be instead of my normal exercise routine, but every little bit counts. A recumbent exercise bike seems like a possible solution, although I don't think my wife wants one in our living room.
diff --git a/content/Blog/audible-com-one-of-the-few-free-offers-i-signed-up-for-that-im-still-using.md b/content/Blog/audible-com-one-of-the-few-free-offers-i-signed-up-for-that-im-still-using.md
index 53f20722..27f5af9b 100644
--- a/content/Blog/audible-com-one-of-the-few-free-offers-i-signed-up-for-that-im-still-using.md
+++ b/content/Blog/audible-com-one-of-the-few-free-offers-i-signed-up-for-that-im-still-using.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2006-01-05T17:23:00+00:00
-title: Audible.com, one of the few free offers I signed up for that I’m still using…
+title: Audible.com, one of the few free offers I signed up for that I'm still using...
type: posts
---
-Along with [Zooba.com](http://blogs.duncanmackenzie.net/duncanma/archive/2005/02/25/1149.aspx), I've kept my Audible membership as well... (and Columbia House DVD and BMG Music ... oh, and Vonage... [ok, there are quite a few free offers that I ended up keeping!!](http://blogs.duncanmackenzie.net/duncanma/archive/2005/04/27/1400.aspx)). Audible is pretty handy for those of us who have the occasional long driving trip, I burned ‘[Getting things done](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0142000280/duncanmackenz-20?creative=327641&camp=14573&link_code=as1)‘ onto CD along with ‘[Accidental Buddhist](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0385492677/duncanmackenz-20?creative=327641&camp=14573&link_code=as1)‘ (3 CDs apiece) and it really made the time fly driving to and from my Mother's house up in BC... never listened to anything in the car though, and while I take a few podcasts to the gym sometimes I've never tried taking anything from Audible. Still, it has turned out to be pretty useful. They are running a deal now where you can get a free trial if you sign up through [this link](http://www.audible.com/tellAFriend/525878FTZ22J), so if you are interested you can probably get a couple of downloads to check out before committing to anything long term.
+Along with [Zooba.com](http://blogs.duncanmackenzie.net/duncanma/archive/2005/02/25/1149.aspx), I've kept my Audible membership as well... (and Columbia House DVD and BMG Music ... oh, and Vonage... [ok, there are quite a few free offers that I ended up keeping!!](http://blogs.duncanmackenzie.net/duncanma/archive/2005/04/27/1400.aspx)). Audible is pretty handy for those of us who have the occasional long driving trip, I burned '[Getting things done](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0142000280/duncanmackenz-20?creative=327641&camp=14573&link_code=as1)' onto CD along with '[Accidental Buddhist](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0385492677/duncanmackenz-20?creative=327641&camp=14573&link_code=as1)' (3 CDs apiece) and it really made the time fly driving to and from my Mother's house up in BC... never listened to anything in the car though, and while I take a few podcasts to the gym sometimes I've never tried taking anything from Audible. Still, it has turned out to be pretty useful. They are running a deal now where you can get a free trial if you sign up through [this link](http://www.audible.com/tellAFriend/525878FTZ22J), so if you are interested you can probably get a couple of downloads to check out before committing to anything long term.
diff --git a/content/Blog/autoincrement-settings-should-be-applied-before-filling-the-datatable.md b/content/Blog/autoincrement-settings-should-be-applied-before-filling-the-datatable.md
index 6cd303c9..c5ffa57e 100644
--- a/content/Blog/autoincrement-settings-should-be-applied-before-filling-the-datatable.md
+++ b/content/Blog/autoincrement-settings-should-be-applied-before-filling-the-datatable.md
@@ -1,17 +1,17 @@
---
date: 2005-04-12T16:02:00+00:00
-title: AutoIncrement settings should be applied before filling the DataTable…
+title: AutoIncrement settings should be applied before filling the DataTable...
type: posts
---
I ran into a problem recently, where duplicate IDs were being generated by my offline ADO.NET code... and I had no real idea why this was happening. I had set up the primary key of my DataTable to have the following propery values:
* AutoIncrement = true
* AutoIncrementSeed = -1
- * AutoIncrementStep = -1
+ * AutoIncrementStep = -1
This is supposed to result in offline IDs being assigned as -1,-2,-3 and therefore having no possibility of conflict with any **real** IDs used in the database. This has worked great for me on many occasions, so it was a bit of a surprise when I finally tracked down my problem to the IDs that were being assigned to my new rows. I put a break point right after calling NewRow on the DataTable and the newly created Row had a PK value of 141. Another new row and it would have a value of 140, and so on... it seems the AutoIncrementStep was working, but the seed value was wonky.
-I asked around and was told to make sure that I was setting the AutoIncrement properties **before** filling the table, which it turns out I wasn't doing. What I had for code was basically like this:
+I asked around and was told to make sure that I was setting the AutoIncrement properties **before** filling the table, which it turns out I wasn't doing. What I had for code was basically like this:
1. If table doesn't exist in DataSet, set a flag to true indicating that this is the first call to the data load
2. Fill the table
@@ -24,4 +24,4 @@ With the new guidance I had received, I changed the routine to:
3. Check the flag and setup the table, including setting the AutoIncrement properties
4. Fill the table
-Of course, all this could be made simpler/cleaner if I built up the schema ‘manually' before loading the table's data but I'm way too lazy for that.
+Of course, all this could be made simpler/cleaner if I built up the schema 'manually' before loading the table's data but I'm way too lazy for that.
diff --git a/content/Blog/back-from-disneyland.md b/content/Blog/back-from-disneyland.md
index 0587caad..1511846e 100644
--- a/content/Blog/back-from-disneyland.md
+++ b/content/Blog/back-from-disneyland.md
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
---
date: 2004-04-04T13:00:00+00:00
-title: Back from Disneyland…
+title: Back from Disneyland...
type: posts
---
-Very little to say... I had a great time (and maybe I'll talk about that later, but it is pretty far off-topic from my normal ‘content'), but now I have hundreds of emails to dig through... most of them have resolved themselves (they emailed me... Exchange bounced an Out-Of-Office back to them... they dealt with it on their own) but sadly when the problem goes away the email doesn't (wouldn't it be cool if it did?), so I have to look through them and make sure I haven't missed any outstanding tasks or questions 🙁
+Very little to say... I had a great time (and maybe I'll talk about that later, but it is pretty far off-topic from my normal 'content'), but now I have hundreds of emails to dig through... most of them have resolved themselves (they emailed me... Exchange bounced an Out-Of-Office back to them... they dealt with it on their own) but sadly when the problem goes away the email doesn't (wouldn't it be cool if it did?), so I have to look through them and make sure I haven't missed any outstanding tasks or questions 🙁
I managed to go the week with only one quick email check... I connected to check on something else and made the mistake of syncing up my email just out of habit.
diff --git a/content/Blog/back-from-holidays-to-find-a-ton-of-new-sci-fi-content-on-the-dvr.md b/content/Blog/back-from-holidays-to-find-a-ton-of-new-sci-fi-content-on-the-dvr.md
index d784730e..8245246d 100644
--- a/content/Blog/back-from-holidays-to-find-a-ton-of-new-sci-fi-content-on-the-dvr.md
+++ b/content/Blog/back-from-holidays-to-find-a-ton-of-new-sci-fi-content-on-the-dvr.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2007-04-15T08:33:00+00:00
-title: Back from holidays to find a ton of new sci-fi content on the DVR…
+title: Back from holidays to find a ton of new sci-fi content on the DVR...
type: posts
---
-What a great friday, new Stargate (both) and ‘Painkiller Jane' ... mmm.... 3 hours of new Sci-Fi goodness
+What a great friday, new Stargate (both) and 'Painkiller Jane' ... mmm.... 3 hours of new Sci-Fi goodness
diff --git a/content/Blog/back-in-redmond.md b/content/Blog/back-in-redmond.md
index 986820e6..fef4ccfa 100644
--- a/content/Blog/back-in-redmond.md
+++ b/content/Blog/back-in-redmond.md
@@ -3,14 +3,14 @@ date: 2004-01-07T14:02:00+00:00
title: Back in Redmond
type: posts
---
-I'm back in town, but I was a little surprised to see snow all over the place... that is what I just left in Winnipeg, MB... I thought I was heading back somewhere green 🙂
+I'm back in town, but I was a little surprised to see snow all over the place... that is what I just left in Winnipeg, MB... I thought I was heading back somewhere green 🙂
-Well, it certainly is a lot warmer (just a bit below freezing tonight and up around 44F/7C tomorrow), but there was a lot of ice all over the road and my truck from the freezing rain that had been falling for the last few days. It turns out though, that my wife's Jewel CD case makes an excellent scraper...
+Well, it certainly is a lot warmer (just a bit below freezing tonight and up around 44F/7C tomorrow), but there was a lot of ice all over the road and my truck from the freezing rain that had been falling for the last few days. It turns out though, that my wife's Jewel CD case makes an excellent scraper...
-Now that I'm back, I have to admit something: **I'm actively making changes in my life right after January 1st.** I've always hated that idea, deciding to ‘get fit' or ‘stop smoking' or whatever on January 1st. It always seemed to me that if it was really important you would have started it whenever you realized it was a problem, not on some specific day because you decided to make it your resolution for the year.... but this year I'm doing just that. I've been thinking about joining a weight-management program at a local health club, but you need a certain BMI (body mass index... a # to indicate how overweight you are based on your height and weight) to get into the program. Well, I finally spent the time to track down [a BMI calculator](http://nhlbisupport.com/bmi/bmicalc.htm) on the web, and when I entered my height (5′ 6″) and weight (192 lbs) it told me that I was _obese_.
-
-It is never a good day to have a javascript program return that word as a result.
+Now that I'm back, I have to admit something: **I'm actively making changes in my life right after January 1st.** I've always hated that idea, deciding to 'get fit' or 'stop smoking' or whatever on January 1st. It always seemed to me that if it was really important you would have started it whenever you realized it was a problem, not on some specific day because you decided to make it your resolution for the year.... but this year I'm doing just that. I've been thinking about joining a weight-management program at a local health club, but you need a certain BMI (body mass index... a # to indicate how overweight you are based on your height and weight) to get into the program. Well, I finally spent the time to track down [a BMI calculator](http://nhlbisupport.com/bmi/bmicalc.htm) on the web, and when I entered my height (5' 6") and weight (192 lbs) it told me that I was _obese_.
+
+It is never a good day to have a javascript program return that word as a result.
Well, that was in the middle of my holiday, so I decided that I had better make some major changes when I got back to the office (I started during the holiday as well, but since it is hard to establish new routines and habits when you are visiting with one relative after another and spending most of the day sitting on the couch chatting, I was really targetting the end of my holidays as the starting point). Now here I am, January 7th, and I'll be just another one of the many people who have decided that losing weight should be their 2004 goal.
-I'll try not to go all ‘[Bridget Jones](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/014028009X/duncanmackenz-20?creative=125581&camp=2321&link_code=as1)‘ on you and post my weight with every blog posting, but it might come up from time to time!
+I'll try not to go all '[Bridget Jones](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/014028009X/duncanmackenz-20?creative=125581&camp=2321&link_code=as1)' on you and post my weight with every blog posting, but it might come up from time to time!
diff --git a/content/Blog/become-a-gold-xbox-live-member-to-get-your-ads-quicker.md b/content/Blog/become-a-gold-xbox-live-member-to-get-your-ads-quicker.md
index 5a610cbf..a513e201 100644
--- a/content/Blog/become-a-gold-xbox-live-member-to-get-your-ads-quicker.md
+++ b/content/Blog/become-a-gold-xbox-live-member-to-get-your-ads-quicker.md
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
date: 2006-10-30T19:22:00+00:00
title: Become a Gold Xbox Live member to get your ads quicker
type: posts
+tags:
+ - Xbox
---
Interesting news, [content that is only for Xbox Live Gold members](http://www.majornelson.com/archive/2006/10/25/Trailer-Gears-of-War-Ad.aspx)... which even [Tycho](http://www.penny-arcade.com/) thinks is understandable, but I agree with [his comments about what kind of content is being restricted](http://www.penny-arcade.com/2006/10/25).
@@ -23,4 +25,4 @@ Don't we put up trailers to help us sell the game? In which case, wouldn't we wa
* _I'm an Xbox Live Gold subscriber, but the idea that you have to be a Gold member to get content early does not sit well me me. I love Xbox 360 and Marketplace, but it's stupid decisions like this which will make me rethink supporting it this console._
* _It's $4 a month for XBL gold eh? Someone show me where I can buy ONE month of gold for $4. Idiots. Also, "there isn't enough separation" between gold and silver? How about the fact that silver users can't PLAY GAMES ONLINE? Isn't that the ostensible purpose of XBL anyway? I say all of this as a gold subscriber._
-The comments actually started out rather balanced, but head more to the ‘Silver accounts can play Gears too' side as you scroll down... I can only assume that is because the most interested followers of Major Nelson's posts are mostly Gold subscribers (which makes sense).
+The comments actually started out rather balanced, but head more to the 'Silver accounts can play Gears too' side as you scroll down... I can only assume that is because the most interested followers of Major Nelson's posts are mostly Gold subscribers (which makes sense).
diff --git a/content/Blog/began-a-serious-weight-loss-program-last-week.md b/content/Blog/began-a-serious-weight-loss-program-last-week.md
index eb95c370..13a49b0f 100644
--- a/content/Blog/began-a-serious-weight-loss-program-last-week.md
+++ b/content/Blog/began-a-serious-weight-loss-program-last-week.md
@@ -3,9 +3,9 @@ date: 2006-10-02T19:20:00+00:00
title: Began a serious weight-loss program last week
type: posts
---
-I've [talked about losing weight before](http://www.duncanmackenzie.net/blog/Feeling-like-it-is-time-to-get-rid-of-the-flab/), and I managed to lose a fair bit via the South Beach diet about a year and a half ago, but my weight recently started creeping up again and I decided to do something ‘big' to get on the right track (which is something I've [considered before](http://www.duncanmackenzie.net/blog/Back-in-Redmond/)). So, on Tuesday of last week I had my official first appointment with a dietitian as part of the 20/20 program at the Pro Club, which included a weigh-in 🙂 .
+I've [talked about losing weight before](http://www.duncanmackenzie.net/blog/Feeling-like-it-is-time-to-get-rid-of-the-flab/), and I managed to lose a fair bit via the South Beach diet about a year and a half ago, but my weight recently started creeping up again and I decided to do something 'big' to get on the right track (which is something I've [considered before](http://www.duncanmackenzie.net/blog/Back-in-Redmond/)). So, on Tuesday of last week I had my official first appointment with a dietitian as part of the 20/20 program at the Pro Club, which included a weigh-in 🙂 .
-As of that day (9/26) I weighed in at 185lbs, and I entered into a program with a goal weight of around 160. For 15 weeks, plus another 12 weeks of ‘maintenance', I'm being led through a pretty structured exercise and eating plan to permanently modify my behaviour and therefore my weight. Since that Tuesday I've been limited to 5 meal replacement shakes a day along with two 6oz servings of lean protein (chicken for me, but there is a wide variety of choices that fall under the lean category). At the same time I've been working out with a personal trainer three times a week, and twice more on my own.
+As of that day (9/26) I weighed in at 185lbs, and I entered into a program with a goal weight of around 160. For 15 weeks, plus another 12 weeks of 'maintenance', I'm being led through a pretty structured exercise and eating plan to permanently modify my behaviour and therefore my weight. Since that Tuesday I've been limited to 5 meal replacement shakes a day along with two 6oz servings of lean protein (chicken for me, but there is a wide variety of choices that fall under the lean category). At the same time I've been working out with a personal trainer three times a week, and twice more on my own.
Overall, my calories in have been reduced to around 1400-1500 per day, while my output has been greatly increased due to the exercise sessions (I exercised 4 or 5 times a week on my own, but not at the same level of intesity). Less in, more out... should work out well.
diff --git a/content/Blog/berry-picking.md b/content/Blog/berry-picking.md
index abdb683f..6198283c 100644
--- a/content/Blog/berry-picking.md
+++ b/content/Blog/berry-picking.md
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
---
date: 2005-06-27T07:29:00+00:00
-title: Berry picking….
+title: Berry picking....
type: posts
---
It was a very enjoyable summer weekend for our little family, including a trip today to pick raspberries (tons of fun, easy to pick...) and strawberries (very tasty... but much less enjoyable to be squatting down in the tiny little space between the rows trying to dig through the little bushes looking for ripe strawberries...) out at a local place called [Remlinger Farms](http://www.RemlingerFarms.com).
-
We only picked for around an hour, at that is moving at the speed of a 4 year old, and ended up with a nice pile of berries. With a bit of ‘low-carb' ice cream, they taste wonderful... but quite a few just went straight from the bowl into the mouth...
+
I was in a local Barnes and Noble, the one in downtown Bellevue (WA), and I spotted [our book](http://www.xbox4dummies.com) on the shelves. It wasn't at the Woodinville B&N as of yesterday, but at least it is showing up in some stores!
diff --git a/content/Blog/book-spotting.md b/content/Blog/book-spotting.md
index 2c08102e..c1fec0bf 100644
--- a/content/Blog/book-spotting.md
+++ b/content/Blog/book-spotting.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2006-01-23T18:31:00+00:00
-title: Book spotting…
+title: Book spotting...
type: posts
---
Our new book, [Xbox 360 for Dummies](http://www.xbox4dummies.com), has hit the stores... or so we've heard. So far, [Brian](http://bufferoverrun.net) and I haven't seen it in any actual retail stores, just online. If you see it in a store near you, or better yet... if you **buy** it in a store near you... [let me know](http://blogs.duncanmackenzie.net/duncanma/contact.aspx" title="Contact Me)!
diff --git a/content/Blog/books-books-books.md b/content/Blog/books-books-books.md
index 3a18c7db..93733b4e 100644
--- a/content/Blog/books-books-books.md
+++ b/content/Blog/books-books-books.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2004-07-20T23:30:00+00:00
-title: Books, Books, Books…
+title: Books, Books, Books...
type: posts
---
I've been thinking about books and the MSDN developer centers for some time... I've been wondering what we should do in terms of highlighting books on the MSDN site.
diff --git a/content/Blog/brian-is-gamer-dad-on-xbox-com.md b/content/Blog/brian-is-gamer-dad-on-xbox-com.md
index 60868cba..4c2da945 100644
--- a/content/Blog/brian-is-gamer-dad-on-xbox-com.md
+++ b/content/Blog/brian-is-gamer-dad-on-xbox-com.md
@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
---
date: 2006-10-17T18:13:00+00:00
-title: Brian is "Gamer Dad" on Xbox.com
+title: Brian is "Gamer Dad" on Xbox.com
type: posts
+tags:
+ - Xbox
---
My buddy (and co-author on [Xbox 360 For Dummies](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0471771805?ie=UTF8&tag=duncanmackenz-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0471771805)
!) Brian Johnson has started a new column on Xbox.com aimed at parents ... parents who game with their kids... parents whose kids play games... and even just parents who play games (gaming is different for folks who have kids in the house!).
diff --git a/content/Blog/broderbund-software-and-c.md b/content/Blog/broderbund-software-and-c.md
index 576d1ae0..492fab7a 100644
--- a/content/Blog/broderbund-software-and-c.md
+++ b/content/Blog/broderbund-software-and-c.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2004-02-21T10:34:00+00:00
-title: Broderbund Software… and C#
+title: Broderbund Software... and C#
type: posts
---
This is so cool, even if you might take it as mostly marketing (sorry in advance)...
diff --git a/content/Blog/burn-cds-right-from-your-net-code.md b/content/Blog/burn-cds-right-from-your-net-code.md
index 27b7f636..e2d75255 100644
--- a/content/Blog/burn-cds-right-from-your-net-code.md
+++ b/content/Blog/burn-cds-right-from-your-net-code.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2003-11-18T01:57:00+00:00
-title: Burn CDs right from your .NET code…
+title: Burn CDs right from your .NET code...
type: posts
---
Anson Horton gave me this cool .NET component and source code last night so I've uploaded it to microsoft.com for your burning fun
diff --git a/content/Blog/burned-myself-a-cd-at-starbucks-thats-new.md b/content/Blog/burned-myself-a-cd-at-starbucks-thats-new.md
index e1bfa551..5a2874b3 100644
--- a/content/Blog/burned-myself-a-cd-at-starbucks-thats-new.md
+++ b/content/Blog/burned-myself-a-cd-at-starbucks-thats-new.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2004-10-25T22:10:00+00:00
-title: Burned myself a CD at Starbucks… that’s new
+title: Burned myself a CD at Starbucks... that's new
type: posts
---
I stopped at Starbucks in Redmond today on my way into work, and the drive thru was really backed up so I decided to run inside. Well, that was lucky for me because I got to see and play with the latest expansion to their service offerings, the ability to [pick songs and burn them onto CD](http://www.starbucks.com/hearmusic) right there in the store. I picked out a few (7) songs and a few minutes later I had my very own little compilation complete with a color picture on the CD itself (chosen by me, for a list of images) a case and a custom printed liner with the picture that I chose for the CD. Very cool, and now I have that new Cake song (No Phone) on CD 🙂
diff --git a/content/Blog/c-2005-and-c-express-content-up.md b/content/Blog/c-2005-and-c-express-content-up.md
index e1d14938..19b84af6 100644
--- a/content/Blog/c-2005-and-c-express-content-up.md
+++ b/content/Blog/c-2005-and-c-express-content-up.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2004-08-13T00:28:00+00:00
-title: C# 2005 and C# Express Content Up…
+title: C# 2005 and C# Express Content Up...
type: posts
---
Just up...
diff --git a/content/Blog/c-bloggers-page-up.md b/content/Blog/c-bloggers-page-up.md
index ac631696..225af70f 100644
--- a/content/Blog/c-bloggers-page-up.md
+++ b/content/Blog/c-bloggers-page-up.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2003-11-22T04:10:00+00:00
-title: C# Bloggers Page Up…
+title: C# Bloggers Page Up...
type: posts
---
Only a few bloggers listed so far, but more will be coming in the near future: [http://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp/community/blogs/default.aspx](http://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp/community/blogs/default.aspx)
diff --git a/content/Blog/c-blogs-page-has-changed-to-be-a-bit-more-useful.md b/content/Blog/c-blogs-page-has-changed-to-be-a-bit-more-useful.md
index 8a97c17a..6e784816 100644
--- a/content/Blog/c-blogs-page-has-changed-to-be-a-bit-more-useful.md
+++ b/content/Blog/c-blogs-page-has-changed-to-be-a-bit-more-useful.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2004-10-26T00:23:00+00:00
-title: C# Blogs page has changed to be a bit more useful…
+title: C# Blogs page has changed to be a bit more useful...
type: posts
---
[This page](http://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp/team/blogs) used to contain blog postings that I manually selected out of the mass of posts by members of the C# team, but (as with most manual processes) that didn't scale as more and more team members posted more and more content.... today, as one of my tidy-up acts as the former owner of that site, I revamped the page to display an aggregated list of posts based off of an OPML file (using a cool ASP.NET control from [Kent](http://blogs.msdn.com/ksharkey)), so now it runs completely without any manual work. This is a good thing.
diff --git a/content/Blog/c-featurette-3-from-eric-gunnerson.md b/content/Blog/c-featurette-3-from-eric-gunnerson.md
index bca062d1..45c83e0a 100644
--- a/content/Blog/c-featurette-3-from-eric-gunnerson.md
+++ b/content/Blog/c-featurette-3-from-eric-gunnerson.md
@@ -3,14 +3,14 @@ date: 2004-04-14T22:05:00+00:00
title: 'C# Featurette #3 from Eric Gunnerson'
type: posts
---
-Eric describes a new Whidbey feature focused on creating those ‘utility' classes in the style of **System.Math** or **System.Environment**:
+Eric describes a new Whidbey feature focused on creating those 'utility' classes in the style of **System.Math** or **System.Environment**:
The theme at my son's preschool last week was Caterpillars, and it also happened to be his turn to bring the snack (the kids rotate through this task, bring snacks/juice for 16 people)... so my wife went all-out and baked these breadstick-larva creations...
diff --git a/content/Blog/celebrities-in-the-locker-room-career-opportunity-or-creepy-awkwardness.md b/content/Blog/celebrities-in-the-locker-room-career-opportunity-or-creepy-awkwardness.md
index f093c18b..9e6c725e 100644
--- a/content/Blog/celebrities-in-the-locker-room-career-opportunity-or-creepy-awkwardness.md
+++ b/content/Blog/celebrities-in-the-locker-room-career-opportunity-or-creepy-awkwardness.md
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
---
date: 2004-06-09T10:37:00+00:00
-title: Celebrities in the locker room… career opportunity or creepy awkwardness?
+title: Celebrities in the locker room... career opportunity or creepy awkwardness?
type: posts
---
-As other people have probably mentioned here and there, there is a very nice health club near Microsoft and a membership to that club is one of the options in our benefits plan. Therefore, it isn't all that surprising that most of the folks in the gym at any particular time are Microsoft employees. This can lead to an interesting occurance that has left me wondering (on more than one occasion), what is the ‘right' thing to do in this situation?
+As other people have probably mentioned here and there, there is a very nice health club near Microsoft and a membership to that club is one of the options in our benefits plan. Therefore, it isn't all that surprising that most of the folks in the gym at any particular time are Microsoft employees. This can lead to an interesting occurance that has left me wondering (on more than one occasion), what is the 'right' thing to do in this situation?
Let's pretend for a moment that you are me, a mid to low level Microsoft guy who just happens to be in the locker room at the gym before work... and along comes Steve Ballmer... and you end up standing around near this guy who is your great-great-great (and so on) grand boss... and a celebrity to boot. What do you do? Personally my approach has always been (and believe it or not this is not an extremely rare occurance) that since he (whoever it is, Steve being just one example) doesn't know me, that I should treat him like any other guy at the gym that I don't know... make friendly conversation about the fact that he is standing on my towel/foot/etc or whatever else needs to be said, but in general silence shall prevail.
@@ -21,5 +21,5 @@ Of course, if I know the guy, then none of this applies. Althought I do notice t
Today though I ran into a situation that seemed rather borderline, and I didn't have any handy reference manual to guide me, so I was lost. [Eric Rudder](http://msdn.microsoft.com/blogs/ericr/) was using the locker next to me, and while I've never met him, I've always thought of him as having a developer focus and therefore being at least one or two steps closer to my world. He knows a lot about what MSDN is doing and might have even visited the VB or C# developer centers once or twice... maybe I should say something, introduce myself... hey, if [he'll pick up random guys on campus and let them attach a camera to his dash](http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=9210), then I'm sure he'd be a great guy to talk to about a number of the big work issues that I am focused on (Developer Community, .NET Adoption, etc.).
-Sadly though, my own worries about being rude or inappropriate took precedence... I said the expected ‘excuse me' and whatever else the situation required, but nothing beyond that. Of course, if I ever had the need, I'd have no hesitation to email him about something at work... but in general that situation is not likely to occur... it isn't that Microsoft is big on the hierarchy thing, but it does exist and there is little cause for me to be skipping 4 or 5 (or more?) layers by adding his name to an email. Maybe I need to put my picture on more developer centers, then people will recognize me and they can be the one to start the conversation? 🙂
+Sadly though, my own worries about being rude or inappropriate took precedence... I said the expected 'excuse me' and whatever else the situation required, but nothing beyond that. Of course, if I ever had the need, I'd have no hesitation to email him about something at work... but in general that situation is not likely to occur... it isn't that Microsoft is big on the hierarchy thing, but it does exist and there is little cause for me to be skipping 4 or 5 (or more?) layers by adding his name to an email. Maybe I need to put my picture on more developer centers, then people will recognize me and they can be the one to start the conversation? 🙂
diff --git a/content/Blog/certification-doesnt-prove-you-know-everything-but-it-certainly-helps.md b/content/Blog/certification-doesnt-prove-you-know-everything-but-it-certainly-helps.md
index d155ef4d..d55bd117 100644
--- a/content/Blog/certification-doesnt-prove-you-know-everything-but-it-certainly-helps.md
+++ b/content/Blog/certification-doesnt-prove-you-know-everything-but-it-certainly-helps.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2003-04-07T11:09:00+00:00
-title: Certification doesn’t prove you know everything, but it certainly helps….
+title: Certification doesn't prove you know everything, but it certainly helps....
type: posts
---
](http://on10.net" target="_new" atomicselection="true)
diff --git a/content/Blog/chris-is-on-10-learn-about-gnomedex-with-just-enough-time-to-get-a-ticket-maybe.md b/content/Blog/chris-is-on-10-learn-about-gnomedex-with-just-enough-time-to-get-a-ticket-maybe.md
index 1dc22afc..62a7a7c8 100644
--- a/content/Blog/chris-is-on-10-learn-about-gnomedex-with-just-enough-time-to-get-a-ticket-maybe.md
+++ b/content/Blog/chris-is-on-10-learn-about-gnomedex-with-just-enough-time-to-get-a-ticket-maybe.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2006-06-12T19:01:00+00:00
-title: Chris is on 10… Learn about Gnomedex with just enough time to get a ticket… maybe
+title: Chris is on 10... Learn about Gnomedex with just enough time to get a ticket... maybe
type: posts
---
[Chris Pirillo is on 10 today](http://on10.net/Blogs/TheShow/3518/), chatting about Gnomedex, his tendency to write things on his chest, and more. I don't know Chris myself, but I joined his "[FatBlasters](http://chris.pirillo.com/2006/06/05/50-weight-loss-tips/)" mailing list awhile ago as part of my ongoing quest to lose weight... and also as a way to get emails from Chris in my Inbox every few days 🙂
diff --git a/content/Blog/chromehounds-on-the-xbox-360-has-consumed-my-free-time.md b/content/Blog/chromehounds-on-the-xbox-360-has-consumed-my-free-time.md
index b76bc826..ff9d7835 100644
--- a/content/Blog/chromehounds-on-the-xbox-360-has-consumed-my-free-time.md
+++ b/content/Blog/chromehounds-on-the-xbox-360-has-consumed-my-free-time.md
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ date: 2006-09-09T08:58:00+00:00
title: Chromehounds on the Xbox 360 has consumed my free time!
type: posts
---
-As I've mentioned before, I have a [Gamefly](http://www.gamefly.com/) subscription and I get new games every few weeks... a great way to play a lot of games without the risk of paying $60 for a stinker (OverG Fighters for example... oh so happy I rented that instead of buying). Anyway, my most recent game is Chromehounds and I'm really enjoying it. It plays way more ‘real' than a game like MechAssault, but isn't attempting to be a simulator and force you to control all the details a real mech would need dealt with. I honestly haven't tried the online side of it yet, and I hear that is the best part... I've just played through all of the single player mission with the exception of the final mission. I have tried that one with four different mech configurations and with a couple different strategies, but I haven't made it through yet 🙂
+As I've mentioned before, I have a [Gamefly](http://www.gamefly.com/) subscription and I get new games every few weeks... a great way to play a lot of games without the risk of paying $60 for a stinker (OverG Fighters for example... oh so happy I rented that instead of buying). Anyway, my most recent game is Chromehounds and I'm really enjoying it. It plays way more 'real' than a game like MechAssault, but isn't attempting to be a simulator and force you to control all the details a real mech would need dealt with. I honestly haven't tried the online side of it yet, and I hear that is the best part... I've just played through all of the single player mission with the exception of the final mission. I have tried that one with four different mech configurations and with a couple different strategies, but I haven't made it through yet 🙂
](http://www.xbox4dummies.com)
diff --git a/content/Blog/creating-backgrounds-for-your-zune.md b/content/Blog/creating-backgrounds-for-your-zune.md
index 75e84c5d..edae6eec 100644
--- a/content/Blog/creating-backgrounds-for-your-zune.md
+++ b/content/Blog/creating-backgrounds-for-your-zune.md
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ date: 2006-11-20T11:36:00+00:00
title: Creating backgrounds for your Zune
type: posts
---
-On the Zune, any picture on the device can be set as the background for all of the menus, providing a great way to customize the look of your Zune. The screen on your Zune is 240 pixels wide and 320 pixels high (holding it in ‘portrait mode', with the navigation pad at the bottom), so that is the proportions you want to shoot for as a background, but if you are making your own background images, then there are few things you should be aware of.
+On the Zune, any picture on the device can be set as the background for all of the menus, providing a great way to customize the look of your Zune. The screen on your Zune is 240 pixels wide and 320 pixels high (holding it in 'portrait mode', with the navigation pad at the bottom), so that is the proportions you want to shoot for as a background, but if you are making your own background images, then there are few things you should be aware of.
* 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.
diff --git a/content/Blog/cyclical-reference-blog-style.md b/content/Blog/cyclical-reference-blog-style.md
index 25794d41..9ecc5290 100644
--- a/content/Blog/cyclical-reference-blog-style.md
+++ b/content/Blog/cyclical-reference-blog-style.md
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
---
date: 2006-01-10T07:13:00+00:00
-title: Cyclical reference, blog style…
+title: Cyclical reference, blog style...
type: posts
---
Not to cause any form of infinite loop here, but I liked this comment from Betsy in [her post](http://blogs.msdn.com/betsya/archive/2006/01/09/510992.aspx) about [my post](http://blogs.duncanmackenzie.net/duncanma/archive/2005/12/17/3412.aspx)...
-> It's a great fit – Duncan went from content strategy to development at MSDN most recently, and now he's going to be on the dev team of one of the most evangelical of teams.
+> It's a great fit – Duncan went from content strategy to development at MSDN most recently, and now he's going to be on the dev team of one of the most evangelical of teams.
Nice to know other folks think I made a good decision... not that I need reassuring of course 🙂
diff --git a/content/Blog/cyrus-ruminates-on-the-revelations-of-teched-2004.md b/content/Blog/cyrus-ruminates-on-the-revelations-of-teched-2004.md
index dc8e853e..f0f1685b 100644
--- a/content/Blog/cyrus-ruminates-on-the-revelations-of-teched-2004.md
+++ b/content/Blog/cyrus-ruminates-on-the-revelations-of-teched-2004.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2004-05-28T04:34:00+00:00
-title: Cyrus ruminates on the revelations of TechEd 2004…
+title: Cyrus ruminates on the revelations of TechEd 2004...
type: posts
---
[ 
](http://www.duncanmackenzie.net/images/Cyrus_Eric_Ken.JPG" rel="lightbox[114]" title="Cyrus ruminates on the revelations of TechEd 2004...)
diff --git a/content/Blog/darth-potato-head-very-odd-but-that-wont-stop-me-from-ordering-one.md b/content/Blog/darth-potato-head-very-odd-but-that-wont-stop-me-from-ordering-one.md
index 3a9969f9..762ff9b4 100644
--- a/content/Blog/darth-potato-head-very-odd-but-that-wont-stop-me-from-ordering-one.md
+++ b/content/Blog/darth-potato-head-very-odd-but-that-wont-stop-me-from-ordering-one.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2005-01-23T08:18:00+00:00
-title: Darth Potato Head… very odd.. but that won’t stop me from ordering one :)
+title: Darth Potato Head... very odd.. but that won't stop me from ordering one :)
type: posts
---
[ 
](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 🙂
diff --git a/content/Blog/data-access-and-storage-developer-center-now-up.md b/content/Blog/data-access-and-storage-developer-center-now-up.md
index a9912617..f53b334f 100644
--- a/content/Blog/data-access-and-storage-developer-center-now-up.md
+++ b/content/Blog/data-access-and-storage-developer-center-now-up.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2004-01-26T21:22:00+00:00
-title: Data Access and Storage Developer Center now up…
+title: Data Access and Storage Developer Center now up...
type: posts
---
A new developer center has been launched; [http://msdn.microsoft.com/data/](http://msdn.microsoft.com/data/) covering both Data Access (ADO, ADO.NET, OLEDB, etc...) and Storage (SQL Server, Access, etc...). Check it out!
diff --git a/content/Blog/datagrid-programming.md b/content/Blog/datagrid-programming.md
index 5fdfe5ab..c5c7fce7 100644
--- a/content/Blog/datagrid-programming.md
+++ b/content/Blog/datagrid-programming.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2004-12-09T17:04:00+00:00
-title: DataGrid programming…
+title: DataGrid programming...
type: posts
---
Customizing the data grid (in Windows Forms) was always one of the most popular topics on the C# or VB developer centers, so I'm sure a lot of people will be interested in this article. It is in C#, so far, but if you'd like to see it in VB I'd suggest you email the writer (email at the bottom of the article).
diff --git a/content/Blog/david-hill-explains-and-discusses-smart-clients.md b/content/Blog/david-hill-explains-and-discusses-smart-clients.md
index 7d6c4040..6bd1916f 100644
--- a/content/Blog/david-hill-explains-and-discusses-smart-clients.md
+++ b/content/Blog/david-hill-explains-and-discusses-smart-clients.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2004-02-04T10:19:00+00:00
-title: David Hill explains and discusses “Smart Clients”
+title: David Hill explains and discusses "Smart Clients"
type: posts
---
> **What is a Smart Client anyway?**
diff --git a/content/Blog/debugging-chat-today.md b/content/Blog/debugging-chat-today.md
index 1a429bf8..c0da29fa 100644
--- a/content/Blog/debugging-chat-today.md
+++ b/content/Blog/debugging-chat-today.md
@@ -9,4 +9,4 @@ type: posts
Join members of the Visual Basic .NET and Debugging teams to discuss debugging Visual Basic .NET applications with the Visual Studio .NET Debugger. Almost every program will need to be debugged sometime, so take this opportunity to learn more about debugging from the experts.
-**February 17th, 2004 at 1 – 2 pm Pacific time**
+**February 17th, 2004 at 1 – 2 pm Pacific time**
diff --git a/content/Blog/default-values-triggers-and-code-supplied-values-oh-my.md b/content/Blog/default-values-triggers-and-code-supplied-values-oh-my.md
index a61374ba..ab7df79a 100644
--- a/content/Blog/default-values-triggers-and-code-supplied-values-oh-my.md
+++ b/content/Blog/default-values-triggers-and-code-supplied-values-oh-my.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2004-07-14T21:20:00+00:00
-title: Default Values, Triggers, and Code supplied values … oh my!
+title: Default Values, Triggers, and Code supplied values ... oh my!
type: posts
---
In [an earlier post](http://weblogs.asp.net/duncanma/archive/2004/07/10/179605.aspx), I mentioned that I use a trigger to update a "DateCreated" field in one of my tables... and various people commented on this... asking "why not pass in a value in your Insert?" or "why not use a default value?"
@@ -16,9 +16,9 @@ Why not just pass the value? Well, two reasons...
sometimes data gets entered in through a different code path than mine... or through something like SQL Enterprise Manager (for lookup tables especially)...
1. I just don't like relying on code external to the database to put the right value in for audit information. This is true for both the modified and the created situations...
- 2. Why not just use a default? Well, that is a better solution than passing the value in, except it doesn't prevent the user from passing in (or setting) whatever value they want. If they pass in a value for DateCreated in their INSERT now, it will get overwritten with the ‘real value'. And, even if they do an UPDATE later to change the DateCreated (which **is** a real flaw in this method), at least the ‘last modified by' will be accurate.
+ 2. Why not just use a default? Well, that is a better solution than passing the value in, except it doesn't prevent the user from passing in (or setting) whatever value they want. If they pass in a value for DateCreated in their INSERT now, it will get overwritten with the 'real value'. And, even if they do an UPDATE later to change the DateCreated (which **is** a real flaw in this method), at least the 'last modified by' will be accurate.
-Of course, this is just my ‘simple' auditing method... for any situation where I really care about the audit information (this example was from [my little polling system](http://weblogs.asp.net/duncanma/archive/2004/06/15/156543.aspx)... auditing info is just a ‘nice to have') then I would need to actually restrict access to those fields completely so that they can only be set through my triggers or stored procs. There are well documented ways to do this, so I won't go into them here... (restrict all access to the table, only allow INSERTs and UPDATEs through your chosen Stored Procs... Stored Procs set those audit fields exactly as you specify, etc...).
+Of course, this is just my 'simple' auditing method... for any situation where I really care about the audit information (this example was from [my little polling system](http://weblogs.asp.net/duncanma/archive/2004/06/15/156543.aspx)... auditing info is just a 'nice to have') then I would need to actually restrict access to those fields completely so that they can only be set through my triggers or stored procs. There are well documented ways to do this, so I won't go into them here... (restrict all access to the table, only allow INSERTs and UPDATEs through your chosen Stored Procs... Stored Procs set those audit fields exactly as you specify, etc...).
It is worth noting that in a more complex auditing solution tracking only the **last** modification probably wouldn't be sufficient anyway.
diff --git a/content/Blog/deleting-database-tables-a-great-web-host-and-a-reactive-software-vendor.md b/content/Blog/deleting-database-tables-a-great-web-host-and-a-reactive-software-vendor.md
index 249d0723..a42f00e8 100644
--- a/content/Blog/deleting-database-tables-a-great-web-host-and-a-reactive-software-vendor.md
+++ b/content/Blog/deleting-database-tables-a-great-web-host-and-a-reactive-software-vendor.md
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
---
date: 2004-09-02T07:46:00+00:00
-title: Deleting database tables, a great web host and a reactive software vendor…
+title: Deleting database tables, a great web host and a reactive software vendor...
type: posts
---
In [a previous post](http://blogs.duncanmackenzie.net/duncanma/archive/2004/09/01/621.aspx), I mentioned that a flaw in the installation routines for [telligent's forum system](http://www.telligentsystems.com/Solutions/Forums) resulted in the deletion of a fairly important set of data... well, after posting that, a few things happened that impressed me...
* My web host, [easerve](http://www.easerve.com/hosting/eris1109/aspnet.aspx), contacted me and let me know they had daily backups of my data available... and once I told them the date/time at which I blew away my data, they'd provide the appropriate backup file... (which they did, and I'm rocking along now with my old data back...) ... yet another great bit of customer service from easerve...
- * [Rob Howard](http://weblogs.asp.net/rhoward) and [Jason Alexander](http://weblogs.asp.net/jalexander/), both from [telligent](http://www.telligentsystems.com/) responded with both ‘sorry' and ‘we'll fix our scripts'... a very quick response considering I didn't even email them about it...
+ * [Rob Howard](http://weblogs.asp.net/rhoward) and [Jason Alexander](http://weblogs.asp.net/jalexander/), both from [telligent](http://www.telligentsystems.com/) responded with both 'sorry' and 'we'll fix our scripts'... a very quick response considering I didn't even email them about it...
Overall, my annoying little incident resulted in a great response from two different groups... very nice.
diff --git a/content/Blog/developer-com-has-been-publishing-a-ton-of-great-vb-articles.md b/content/Blog/developer-com-has-been-publishing-a-ton-of-great-vb-articles.md
index 302c2cf1..cef727fa 100644
--- a/content/Blog/developer-com-has-been-publishing-a-ton-of-great-vb-articles.md
+++ b/content/Blog/developer-com-has-been-publishing-a-ton-of-great-vb-articles.md
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
---
date: 2005-01-18T17:20:00+00:00
-title: Developer.com has been publishing a ton of great VB articles…
+title: Developer.com has been publishing a ton of great VB articles...
type: posts
---
I've been meaning to mention this for awhile, but better late than never:
-> [Discovering Visual Basic .NET](http://www.developer.com/net/vb/article.php/3448491) By Bill Hatfield – There is no need to put off learning Visual Basic .NET any longer. With this tutorial you will be on your way!
+> [Discovering Visual Basic .NET](http://www.developer.com/net/vb/article.php/3448491) By Bill Hatfield – There is no need to put off learning Visual Basic .NET any longer. With this tutorial you will be on your way!
>
-> [Remoting or Web Services, How Do I Decide?](http://www.developer.com/net/vb/article.php/3451701) By Paul Kimmel – Published 12/31/2004Choosing between XML Web services and .NET remoting isn't a hard decision. Just use XML Web services almost all of the time, says Paul Kimmel.
+> [Remoting or Web Services, How Do I Decide?](http://www.developer.com/net/vb/article.php/3451701) By Paul Kimmel – Published 12/31/2004Choosing between XML Web services and .NET remoting isn't a hard decision. Just use XML Web services almost all of the time, says Paul Kimmel.
>
-> [When They Rip It from My Cold, Dead Fingers](http://www.developer.com/net/vb/article.php/3422891) By Bradley L. Jones – Is the continued use of Visual Basic 6.0 going to take your career 6 feet under?
+> [When They Rip It from My Cold, Dead Fingers](http://www.developer.com/net/vb/article.php/3422891) By Bradley L. Jones – Is the continued use of Visual Basic 6.0 going to take your career 6 feet under?
diff --git a/content/Blog/developing-a-windows-forms-wizard.md b/content/Blog/developing-a-windows-forms-wizard.md
index 7cf4554b..13966e78 100644
--- a/content/Blog/developing-a-windows-forms-wizard.md
+++ b/content/Blog/developing-a-windows-forms-wizard.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2004-04-12T02:28:00+00:00
-title: Developing a Windows Forms Wizard…
+title: Developing a Windows Forms Wizard...
type: posts
---
I have to admit that I haven't developed a "wizard" framework yet in .NET, I've just been stacking panels on top of each other, naming them step1...stepN and then showing and hiding them as necessary. Not exactly an easy-to-reuse approach, but it works. [Justin Rogers](http://weblogs.asp.net/justin_rogers), a developer who has worked on the GDN Workspaces system, the ASP.NET forums, Terrarium and more... has released an article on his blog that details a structured approach to create a Windows Forms Wizard:
diff --git a/content/Blog/dig-dug-hits-the-xbox-live-arcade.md b/content/Blog/dig-dug-hits-the-xbox-live-arcade.md
index 84849cd8..a17b4582 100644
--- a/content/Blog/dig-dug-hits-the-xbox-live-arcade.md
+++ b/content/Blog/dig-dug-hits-the-xbox-live-arcade.md
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ date: 2006-10-11T09:55:00+00:00
title: Dig Dug hits the Xbox Live Arcade
type: posts
---
-[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...) [
](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...) [
](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?path=ASIN/0312873077&link_code=as2&camp=1789&tag=duncanmackenz-20&creative=9325)
diff --git a/content/Blog/first-day-and-he-has-figured-it-out-already.md b/content/Blog/first-day-and-he-has-figured-it-out-already.md
index d912db8d..bacbe1c5 100644
--- a/content/Blog/first-day-and-he-has-figured-it-out-already.md
+++ b/content/Blog/first-day-and-he-has-figured-it-out-already.md
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
---
date: 2003-03-25T12:22:00+00:00
-title: First day and he has figured it out already….
+title: First day and he has figured it out already....
type: posts
---
Kent's first day with my group (to avoid confusion: "my group" means the group I belong to, I don't manage anyone...) and he has already realized the truth about us.
-"Day 1 – spent most of it in the cafeteria, as it was a move day. Two meetings (much lower than my day would have been). Yes, my new team is/are lunatics 😉 (_They know that already, and yes, I know they all read this_)" – [Kent Sharkey's Blog](http://dotnetweblogs.com/ksharkey/posts/4245.aspx)
+"Day 1 – spent most of it in the cafeteria, as it was a move day. Two meetings (much lower than my day would have been). Yes, my new team is/are lunatics 😉 (_They know that already, and yes, I know they all read this_)" – [Kent Sharkey's Blog](http://dotnetweblogs.com/ksharkey/posts/4245.aspx)
For those of you who might be wondering, Kent has just joined [MSDN](http://msdn.microsoft.com), and more specifically he has become the ASP.NET Content Strategist. As a group, we content strategists are involved in planning out the articles (and other materials) that MSDN should write, link to and/or acquire around various development technologies. I'm the Visual Basic Content Strategist, Steve Kirk is our man on [Architecture](http://msdn.microsoft.com/architecture), Matt Powell covers the exciting world of [Web Services](http://msdn.microsoft.com/webservices), [Frank Redmond ](http://www.google.com/search?num=30&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&q=Frank+Redmond+site%3Amsdn.microsoft.com&btnG=Google+Search)is all over the .NET Framework, [Brian Johnson](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0735618747/qid=1048583643/sr=8-5/ref=sr_8_5/102-2505337-1511315?v=glance&s=books&n=507846) just joined us as the Security strategist, [Paul Johns ](http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnguinet/html/drguinetnhp.asp)is working with something called C#, and [Shawn Morrissey](http://dotnetweblogs.com/shawnmor/) (our boss) covers Visual Studio... oh yeah, [Tim Ewald](http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/tewald/default.aspx) is also part of our group... but no one really knows [what he does](http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/03/03/WebServices/) 😉
diff --git a/content/Blog/first-hint-of-what-ive-been-working-on-for-the-last-few-months.md b/content/Blog/first-hint-of-what-ive-been-working-on-for-the-last-few-months.md
index d4cee204..8af74b3a 100644
--- a/content/Blog/first-hint-of-what-ive-been-working-on-for-the-last-few-months.md
+++ b/content/Blog/first-hint-of-what-ive-been-working-on-for-the-last-few-months.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2003-03-28T21:24:00+00:00
-title: First hint of what I’ve been working on for the last few months…
+title: First hint of what I've been working on for the last few months...
type: posts
---
We've posted a little "first look" at the new Developer Centers at
diff --git a/content/Blog/first-part-of-my-star-trek-legacy-interview-is-up.md b/content/Blog/first-part-of-my-star-trek-legacy-interview-is-up.md
index 8e8844a6..ebc59036 100644
--- a/content/Blog/first-part-of-my-star-trek-legacy-interview-is-up.md
+++ b/content/Blog/first-part-of-my-star-trek-legacy-interview-is-up.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2006-11-17T11:01:00+00:00
-title: First part of my Star Trek Legacy interview is up…
+title: First part of my Star Trek Legacy interview is up...
type: posts
---
I flew to Boston a couple of weeks ago and interviewed some folks at Mad Doc Software, and the first part of that interview is now up on 10.
diff --git a/content/Blog/first-post-on-the-new-site.md b/content/Blog/first-post-on-the-new-site.md
index 6ec4edcd..85f9eefa 100644
--- a/content/Blog/first-post-on-the-new-site.md
+++ b/content/Blog/first-post-on-the-new-site.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2004-08-25T20:03:00+00:00
-title: First post on the new site…
+title: First post on the new site...
type: posts
---
Last night, I wrote up a little Visual Basic .NET app that uses the .Text web services and moved all my categories and posts to [a new .Text server]()...
diff --git a/content/Blog/follow-up-on-that-labelline-control.md b/content/Blog/follow-up-on-that-labelline-control.md
index 5710e335..f98a92b0 100644
--- a/content/Blog/follow-up-on-that-labelline-control.md
+++ b/content/Blog/follow-up-on-that-labelline-control.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2005-04-15T15:33:00+00:00
-title: Follow up on that label/line control…
+title: Follow up on that label/line control...
type: posts
---
It seems a few people had questions about [the control I posted previously](http://blogs.duncanmackenzie.net/duncanma/archive/2005/04/14/1306.aspx), so here are answers to two of the questions that people might be running into:
diff --git a/content/Blog/follow-up-to-drawing-rotated-text.md b/content/Blog/follow-up-to-drawing-rotated-text.md
index 6192132d..bd67ffd3 100644
--- a/content/Blog/follow-up-to-drawing-rotated-text.md
+++ b/content/Blog/follow-up-to-drawing-rotated-text.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2004-12-09T18:05:00+00:00
-title: Follow up to ‘drawing rotated text’
+title: Follow up to 'drawing rotated text'
type: posts
---
The same programmer who ask for [an example of rotated text](http://blogs.duncanmackenzie.net/duncanma/archive/2004/12/02/913.aspx) is back with another interesting request; how to partially fill a circle from the bottom up...
diff --git a/content/Blog/following-in-kents-footsteps-like-usual.md b/content/Blog/following-in-kents-footsteps-like-usual.md
index 9e308a55..cbeb37e8 100644
--- a/content/Blog/following-in-kents-footsteps-like-usual.md
+++ b/content/Blog/following-in-kents-footsteps-like-usual.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2005-10-15T18:44:00+00:00
-title: Following in Kent’s footsteps, like usual :)
+title: Following in Kent's footsteps, like usual :)
type: posts
---
[Kent's flair](http://www.acmebinary.com/blogs/kent/archive/2005/10/07/273.aspx) was cool... so I made my own, using his code of course, but targetting whatever feed you want... check out the source of this image and I'm sure you can figure out how to change the feed it is pointing to...
diff --git a/content/Blog/found-some-msdn-icons-on-a-free-gui-element-site.md b/content/Blog/found-some-msdn-icons-on-a-free-gui-element-site.md
index da922c75..1aa77ed5 100644
--- a/content/Blog/found-some-msdn-icons-on-a-free-gui-element-site.md
+++ b/content/Blog/found-some-msdn-icons-on-a-free-gui-element-site.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2005-10-11T05:58:00+00:00
-title: Found some MSDN icons on a free GUI element site…
+title: Found some MSDN icons on a free GUI element site...
type: posts
---
-It's a bit odd, seeing our logos redone as ‘free' icons, but they are [nice images](http://interfacelift.com/icons-win/details.php?id=1571) so I grabbed them anyway...
+It's a bit odd, seeing our logos redone as 'free' icons, but they are [nice images](http://interfacelift.com/icons-win/details.php?id=1571) so I grabbed them anyway...
diff --git a/content/Blog/frankie-bungie-mentions-xbox-360-for-dummies.md b/content/Blog/frankie-bungie-mentions-xbox-360-for-dummies.md
index c99ee714..2062d38d 100644
--- a/content/Blog/frankie-bungie-mentions-xbox-360-for-dummies.md
+++ b/content/Blog/frankie-bungie-mentions-xbox-360-for-dummies.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2006-02-25T19:57:00+00:00
-title: Frankie @ Bungie mentions XBox 360 for dummies…
+title: Frankie @ Bungie mentions XBox 360 for dummies...
type: posts
---
He also talks about using a picture, (off of your computer, a CD, a digital camera, or even a USB drive) as a custom background... a very cool feature.
diff --git a/content/Blog/free-flat-screen-arrived-yesterday.md b/content/Blog/free-flat-screen-arrived-yesterday.md
index 5d641bb3..682ab099 100644
--- a/content/Blog/free-flat-screen-arrived-yesterday.md
+++ b/content/Blog/free-flat-screen-arrived-yesterday.md
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
---
date: 2005-04-27T18:20:00+00:00
-title: Free Flat Screen arrived yesterday…
+title: Free Flat Screen arrived yesterday...
type: posts
---
-No picture at the moment, I was just happy to get it hooked up quickly before my son came home... it seems I can never hook up electronics correctly when he is ‘helping' me 🙂
+No picture at the moment, I was just happy to get it hooked up quickly before my son came home... it seems I can never hook up electronics correctly when he is 'helping' me 🙂
-So, yep... one of those sites worked for me... it took a while, but my wife is very happy with the monitor. It is [a 19″ LCD from Sony](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000ANF0P/duncanmackenz-20?creative=327641&camp=14573&link_code=as1) (the SDM-S93 I believe) and it looks nice replacing her 15″ CRT. No DVI input, which isn't a real issue for her at this point as she doesn't have DVI output, but it is worth noting.
+So, yep... one of those sites worked for me... it took a while, but my wife is very happy with the monitor. It is [a 19" LCD from Sony](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000ANF0P/duncanmackenz-20?creative=327641&camp=14573&link_code=as1) (the SDM-S93 I believe) and it looks nice replacing her 15" CRT. No DVI input, which isn't a real issue for her at this point as she doesn't have DVI output, but it is worth noting.
**Tips if you are interested in getting something free for yourself...**
@@ -20,10 +20,10 @@ I would seriously consider the sites from OfferCentric (they usually end in 4fre
There are other sites of course, but I group anything above 5 or 6 referral links as long-shots... you'll really need to work (and trade, and bug, and ...) to get enough referrals for a site like [notebooks4free.com](http://www.notebooks4free.com/default.aspx?r=201171) (**18 referrals!!**), [freedesktoppcs.com](http://www.FreeDesktopPC.com/?r=15127916) or [pvps4free.com](http://www.pvps4free.com/default.aspx?r=160508) (both of which are 10 referrals).
-The key is to find a site where the gift appeals to not just you, but to enough other people for you to get them interested too. WIthout a doubt though, the best way to get referrals is to use a swapping service like [RefStop](http://www.RefStop.com/register.htm?r=Duncanma). Assuming everyone completes their side of the deal (only deal with people with a good track record/reputation to make this more likely) it should take you _(the number of referrals needed by site) + 1_ completed offers (all by you) to complete the site... Taking one site as an exmaple, the mp3 player site, this would mean that you do the initial offer for the site, after clicking on a referral link from anyone (such as me) and then you go and sign up for a site like [RefStop](http://www.RefStop.com/register.htm?r=Duncanma). You list your existing referral id for the mp3 site, and mark yourself as _accepting trades_. Folks will offer to trade with you via email notifications, check their reputation (available through the site) and make the deal if they seem like solid people. The deal will be that you need to go and sign up for some other ‘free stuff' site by clicking on **their referral link** and in return they will go and sign-up on the mp3 site (in this example) through **your referral link**. If you do a trade, make sure that after you click on a referral link, that the right referral Id shows up on the site before you sign-up... it should be in the query string of the link you clicked and it should show up somewhere on the page (_you are being referred by xxxxx_).... and some people recommend that before you start the whole process a trade (so before you even click on their link) that you blow away all your cookies... but I never did that (I can't imagine how many saved site settings I would lose if I did).
+The key is to find a site where the gift appeals to not just you, but to enough other people for you to get them interested too. WIthout a doubt though, the best way to get referrals is to use a swapping service like [RefStop](http://www.RefStop.com/register.htm?r=Duncanma). Assuming everyone completes their side of the deal (only deal with people with a good track record/reputation to make this more likely) it should take you _(the number of referrals needed by site) + 1_ completed offers (all by you) to complete the site... Taking one site as an exmaple, the mp3 player site, this would mean that you do the initial offer for the site, after clicking on a referral link from anyone (such as me) and then you go and sign up for a site like [RefStop](http://www.RefStop.com/register.htm?r=Duncanma). You list your existing referral id for the mp3 site, and mark yourself as _accepting trades_. Folks will offer to trade with you via email notifications, check their reputation (available through the site) and make the deal if they seem like solid people. The deal will be that you need to go and sign up for some other 'free stuff' site by clicking on **their referral link** and in return they will go and sign-up on the mp3 site (in this example) through **your referral link**. If you do a trade, make sure that after you click on a referral link, that the right referral Id shows up on the site before you sign-up... it should be in the query string of the link you clicked and it should show up somewhere on the page (_you are being referred by xxxxx_).... and some people recommend that before you start the whole process a trade (so before you even click on their link) that you blow away all your cookies... but I never did that (I can't imagine how many saved site settings I would lose if I did).
Always start by signing up for the free offers that you are actually interested in, because these are things that you probably don't mind signing up for even without an incentive. I signed up for zooba.com, vonage, bmg music, columbia house dvd, audible.com and blockbuster online as part of trading with folks and I didn't mind any of those... I even stayed with all of them except for blockbuster (I was trying them out in comparision to Netflix... and I decided to stay with Netflix).
-Personally I'd avoid the credit card offers, unless you are in the market for a new card, as I would think that would leave a permanent mark on your credit history (not a bad one, unless you sign up for a bunch of cards) ... and if possible I'd probably avoid the free ‘drug' trial ones too... all of those will start to auto-ship you stuff, and that means auto-billing as well if you don't decide to cancel quick enough.
+Personally I'd avoid the credit card offers, unless you are in the market for a new card, as I would think that would leave a permanent mark on your credit history (not a bad one, unless you sign up for a bunch of cards) ... and if possible I'd probably avoid the free 'drug' trial ones too... all of those will start to auto-ship you stuff, and that means auto-billing as well if you don't decide to cancel quick enough.
In the end, it is a bunch of hassle, but I know that it can work if you are really set on getting that free ipod, creative zen micro, or a free PSP.
diff --git a/content/Blog/free-sites-update.md b/content/Blog/free-sites-update.md
index 6f070ae9..107ab36f 100644
--- a/content/Blog/free-sites-update.md
+++ b/content/Blog/free-sites-update.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2005-10-31T06:15:00+00:00
-title: Free sites update…
+title: Free sites update...
type: posts
---
-I mentioned earlier how the [Free Xbox 360 site](http://xbox360s.freepay.com/?r=23139488) was quite busy, and it is... tons of clicks, 12 sign-ups, and even one person has ‘gone green' which is to say they completed their offer. Once 8 people (who click through your referral link) have signed-up and completed an offer, then you are all done, but the sign-up to completion ratio is not great, probably 1 in every 5, so a lot of folks sign-up and then find that they either are not interested in the available offers or they don't think it is likely that they'll get an additional 8 people to sign-up through them. One of the more difficult aspects of these sites is that they don't tell you how many referrals are needed until **after** you sign up, so if you were thinking 4 referrals and it ends up being 10, that is a pretty good reason to bail on the entire system. I'm currently sitting 3 away on the [PVP](http://www.pvps4free.com/default.aspx?r=160508) site, 4 on the [PSP](http://www.psps4free.com/default.aspx?r=315551) and 4 on the [MP3 Players site](http://www.mp3players4free.com/default.aspx?r=206786)... and, in all honestly, I don't really expect any of them to go completely through. Now that I'm not going through a service like RefStop, where you trade referalls on somone else's account for them signing up through you and doing a referall on your account, 3 or 4 sign-ups is a pretty unlikely target.
+I mentioned earlier how the [Free Xbox 360 site](http://xbox360s.freepay.com/?r=23139488) was quite busy, and it is... tons of clicks, 12 sign-ups, and even one person has 'gone green' which is to say they completed their offer. Once 8 people (who click through your referral link) have signed-up and completed an offer, then you are all done, but the sign-up to completion ratio is not great, probably 1 in every 5, so a lot of folks sign-up and then find that they either are not interested in the available offers or they don't think it is likely that they'll get an additional 8 people to sign-up through them. One of the more difficult aspects of these sites is that they don't tell you how many referrals are needed until **after** you sign up, so if you were thinking 4 referrals and it ends up being 10, that is a pretty good reason to bail on the entire system. I'm currently sitting 3 away on the [PVP](http://www.pvps4free.com/default.aspx?r=160508) site, 4 on the [PSP](http://www.psps4free.com/default.aspx?r=315551) and 4 on the [MP3 Players site](http://www.mp3players4free.com/default.aspx?r=206786)... and, in all honestly, I don't really expect any of them to go completely through. Now that I'm not going through a service like RefStop, where you trade referalls on somone else's account for them signing up through you and doing a referall on your account, 3 or 4 sign-ups is a pretty unlikely target.
diff --git a/content/Blog/free-stuff.md b/content/Blog/free-stuff.md
index 70fcc5f3..e85aaf13 100644
--- a/content/Blog/free-stuff.md
+++ b/content/Blog/free-stuff.md
@@ -5,6 +5,6 @@ type: posts
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I read [this PVP cartoon](http://www.pvponline.com/archive.php3?archive=20050109) last week, talking about the free iPod thing, and now I've seen similar things (free dvds, free pcs, free video games, etc...) from the [same company](http://www.gratisnetwork.com/default.html). After reading [about it](http://www.engadget.com/entry/1771223899144212), **I gave in**.
-I signed up for the Columbia deal personally, though the blockbuster offer seems ‘free-er' ... the whole thing is probably another one of those "sign up for the free offer, because we know you are too lazy to remember to cancel before we start charging you money" deals... so check it out at your own risk 🙂
+I signed up for the Columbia deal personally, though the blockbuster offer seems 'free-er' ... the whole thing is probably another one of those "sign up for the free offer, because we know you are too lazy to remember to cancel before we start charging you money" deals... so check it out at your own risk 🙂
Here is **my** [link to the flat screen offer](http://www.freeflatscreens.com/?r=13882371)... [and one to the MiniMac offer](http://www.freeminimacs.com/?r=13892191) **which add to my referral count**, and here is a normal, no codes, link in case you'd rather [check it out without any baggage](http://www.freeflatscreens.com/). 🙂
diff --git a/content/Blog/frequently-asked-question-section-now-on-the-c-developer-center.md b/content/Blog/frequently-asked-question-section-now-on-the-c-developer-center.md
index 2027ec79..ad9c6ff2 100644
--- a/content/Blog/frequently-asked-question-section-now-on-the-c-developer-center.md
+++ b/content/Blog/frequently-asked-question-section-now-on-the-c-developer-center.md
@@ -3,6 +3,6 @@ date: 2004-03-24T21:49:00+00:00
title: Frequently Asked Question Section now on the C# Developer Center
type: posts
---
-Hey folks, I've been working with the C# Team and two great C# MVPs (Jon Skeet and Nicholas Paldino) to put together a ‘live' C# FAQ. This FAQ is being run as a blog, hosted at [http://blogs.msdn.com/csharpfaq](http://blogs.msdn.com/csharpfaq) and is displayed on the C# Developer Center on MSDN (at [http://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp/team/faq](http://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp/team/faq)).
+Hey folks, I've been working with the C# Team and two great C# MVPs (Jon Skeet and Nicholas Paldino) to put together a 'live' C# FAQ. This FAQ is being run as a blog, hosted at [http://blogs.msdn.com/csharpfaq](http://blogs.msdn.com/csharpfaq) and is displayed on the C# Developer Center on MSDN (at [http://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp/team/faq](http://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp/team/faq)).
This list of questions and answers is continually being updated, so if you don't see an answer to your question, and you think it is a common one... please submit it through the ["Ask a FAQ Question"](http://blogs.msdn.com/csharpfaq/archive/2004/03/06/85249.aspx) area of the blog.
diff --git a/content/Blog/frequently-asked-questions-or-frequently-requested-code-frc.md b/content/Blog/frequently-asked-questions-or-frequently-requested-code-frc.md
index 1c075363..721a44f9 100644
--- a/content/Blog/frequently-asked-questions-or-frequently-requested-code-frc.md
+++ b/content/Blog/frequently-asked-questions-or-frequently-requested-code-frc.md
@@ -7,10 +7,10 @@ Hey folks.... I've been thinking (dangerous, I know) and I've decided that you n
Should we (MSFT, VB Team, Me, etc...) focus on the simple stuff for beginners or is that all covered on other sites and in the docs? Should we be focusing on those top few percentage of hard problems that very few folks have a good example for?
-I'm leaning towards the ‘simple' samples at the moment, like [my printing example a few weeks back](http://weblogs.asp.net/duncanma/archive/2004/01/30/65350.aspx), and considering doing a simple data-entry application as a demo, then perhaps an application that uses the WebBrowser COM control (it comes up a lot on the forums I frequent)... and then, despite having already written [an article on it](http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dv_vstechart/html/vbtchWorkingWithMultipleFormsInVisualBasicNETUpgradingToNET.asp), something involving multiple forms and passing data back and forth...
+I'm leaning towards the 'simple' samples at the moment, like [my printing example a few weeks back](http://weblogs.asp.net/duncanma/archive/2004/01/30/65350.aspx), and considering doing a simple data-entry application as a demo, then perhaps an application that uses the WebBrowser COM control (it comes up a lot on the forums I frequent)... and then, despite having already written [an article on it](http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dv_vstechart/html/vbtchWorkingWithMultipleFormsInVisualBasicNETUpgradingToNET.asp), something involving multiple forms and passing data back and forth...
If you have any ideas or if you are just sick of answering a particular question over and over again (or asking it, and not getting a good answer) then just let me know.
](http://psp.connect.com/)
diff --git a/content/Blog/get-the-details-on-refactoring-in-vb-2005-from-cory-smith.md b/content/Blog/get-the-details-on-refactoring-in-vb-2005-from-cory-smith.md
index 8e9b797d..787aa78f 100644
--- a/content/Blog/get-the-details-on-refactoring-in-vb-2005-from-cory-smith.md
+++ b/content/Blog/get-the-details-on-refactoring-in-vb-2005-from-cory-smith.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2005-04-21T08:51:00+00:00
-title: Get the details on Refactoring in VB 2005 from Cory Smith…
+title: Get the details on Refactoring in VB 2005 from Cory Smith...
type: posts
---
[Refactoring to debut in VB 2005!](http://addressof.com/blog/archive/2005/04/20/1804.aspx" title=")
diff --git a/content/Blog/getting-back-into-programming-after-a-few-years-at-home-with-the-kids.md b/content/Blog/getting-back-into-programming-after-a-few-years-at-home-with-the-kids.md
index 28665e90..f3d3b14e 100644
--- a/content/Blog/getting-back-into-programming-after-a-few-years-at-home-with-the-kids.md
+++ b/content/Blog/getting-back-into-programming-after-a-few-years-at-home-with-the-kids.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2005-08-19T06:33:00+00:00
-title: Getting back into programming after a few years at home with the kids…
+title: Getting back into programming after a few years at home with the kids...
type: posts
---
A friend of mine, through my wife, has been a stay-at-home mom for the past few years and is trying to get back into the swing of computer programming. It doesn't take long to get out of date in the computer industry, so I can understand her desire to flex her _coding muscles_ a bit. Although she could just go back to what she knew before, she has decided to try learning something that is completely new, which I think is a great way to go. Personally I might have suggested C# to someone with her background (C, C++, Assembly), but perhaps I'm biased 🙂 ... and I have to admit that her decision to go with Ruby seems pretty cool.
diff --git a/content/Blog/getting-slightly-caught-up.md b/content/Blog/getting-slightly-caught-up.md
index dd43ec84..418987d1 100644
--- a/content/Blog/getting-slightly-caught-up.md
+++ b/content/Blog/getting-slightly-caught-up.md
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
---
date: 2003-09-15T11:55:00+00:00
-title: Getting slightly caught up…
+title: Getting slightly caught up...
type: posts
---
Well, I haven't produced anything of staggering brillance tonight, but I'm a little less behind on some of my writing obligations (now those SAMS editors will stop posting my picture in the coffee room with nasty words beneath it)... still behind on 3 or 4 other projects, but progress is progress... I'm not going to complain!
-Some very cool stuff coming soon on the [Visual C# Developer Center](http://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp), which I have recently taken over ‘stewardship' of, I'll leave it to [someone else](http://blogs.gotdotnet.com/ericgu/) to give away details if he wants and just say that if you care at all about the C# language itself, beyond the basics, then you are going to want to spend some time at the developer center in the next while!
+Some very cool stuff coming soon on the [Visual C# Developer Center](http://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp), which I have recently taken over 'stewardship' of, I'll leave it to [someone else](http://blogs.gotdotnet.com/ericgu/) to give away details if he wants and just say that if you care at all about the C# language itself, beyond the basics, then you are going to want to spend some time at the developer center in the next while!
-On a very unrelated note, I went into a new movie-rental place the other day (new to me that is) and I ‘registered' for an account with their system... but I didn't receive a card, instead the fellow just told me that the last four digits of my phone # were now my account # and that I could just use those to access the account. Hmm... a GUID would be overkill, but how exactly are the last 4 digits of my phone number sufficient to uniquely identify me? I'm thinking that he was simplifying the system for me (probably assuming that I, like yourselves, didn't want to know the details) and that my real account number was some system generated thing (or at least my full phone #) and they just looked stuff up by the phone #, asking for my name if they received multiple results on the same #... but who knows... maybe they are just crossing their fingers and hoping that they won't have any conflicts on those last four digits?
+On a very unrelated note, I went into a new movie-rental place the other day (new to me that is) and I 'registered' for an account with their system... but I didn't receive a card, instead the fellow just told me that the last four digits of my phone # were now my account # and that I could just use those to access the account. Hmm... a GUID would be overkill, but how exactly are the last 4 digits of my phone number sufficient to uniquely identify me? I'm thinking that he was simplifying the system for me (probably assuming that I, like yourselves, didn't want to know the details) and that my real account number was some system generated thing (or at least my full phone #) and they just looked stuff up by the phone #, asking for my name if they received multiple results on the same #... but who knows... maybe they are just crossing their fingers and hoping that they won't have any conflicts on those last four digits?
_I'm tempted to go back in and open another account, different phone #, same last 4 digits... but perhaps some people would find that weird?_
diff --git a/content/Blog/getting-the-8-3-filename.md b/content/Blog/getting-the-8-3-filename.md
index 83efa310..5d4d43e0 100644
--- a/content/Blog/getting-the-8-3-filename.md
+++ b/content/Blog/getting-the-8-3-filename.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2005-02-06T10:04:00+00:00
-title: Getting the 8.3 filename…
+title: Getting the 8.3 filename...
type: posts
---
Quick sample (calling the GetShortPathName API) in VB.NET posted to [http://www.duncanmackenzie.net/Samples/](http://www.duncanmackenzie.net/Samples/)
diff --git a/content/Blog/getting-the-net-framework-installed-as-part-of-your-applications-setup.md b/content/Blog/getting-the-net-framework-installed-as-part-of-your-applications-setup.md
index 9363bc16..e8959ac3 100644
--- a/content/Blog/getting-the-net-framework-installed-as-part-of-your-applications-setup.md
+++ b/content/Blog/getting-the-net-framework-installed-as-part-of-your-applications-setup.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2004-09-28T17:10:00+00:00
-title: Getting the .NET Framework Installed as part of your application’s setup
+title: Getting the .NET Framework Installed as part of your application's setup
type: posts
---
I'm working on the bootstrapper chapter for my upcoming ClickOnce book and it occured to me that a lot of people probably haven't heard about the bootstrapper for Visual Studio .NET 2003...
diff --git a/content/Blog/getting-the-right-printer-margin-bounds-when-working-in-windows-forms.md b/content/Blog/getting-the-right-printer-margin-bounds-when-working-in-windows-forms.md
index a74c70d8..5c6a371c 100644
--- a/content/Blog/getting-the-right-printer-margin-bounds-when-working-in-windows-forms.md
+++ b/content/Blog/getting-the-right-printer-margin-bounds-when-working-in-windows-forms.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2004-07-19T09:25:00+00:00
-title: Getting the right Printer Margin Bounds when working in Windows Forms…
+title: Getting the right Printer Margin Bounds when working in Windows Forms...
type: posts
---
a Code Project link, via [Darth Pedro's blog](http://darthpedro.blogspot.com)...
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ a Code Project link, via [Darth Pedro's blog](http://darthpedro.blogspot.com)...
> We like natural peanut butter, but hate the initial stirring mess. The minute you put a spatula in, the oil overflows and is everywhere. This stirrer seals the jar, and with a few quick turns the peanut butter is completely mixed and there is zero mess. Easy to use: you put the lid on, insert the stirrer and turn the knob. The gasket on the hole where you put the stirrer even cleans it off when you are done! My husband actually sneaks in a new jar of peanut butter so that he can mix it up before I get to.
>
-> — Sessalee Hensley
+> – Sessalee Hensley
>
> Peanut Butter Mixer
> $8
diff --git a/content/Blog/great-set-of-vb-videos-posted-on-channel-9-paul-vick-and-amanada-silver.md b/content/Blog/great-set-of-vb-videos-posted-on-channel-9-paul-vick-and-amanada-silver.md
index 69214e79..41026b51 100644
--- a/content/Blog/great-set-of-vb-videos-posted-on-channel-9-paul-vick-and-amanada-silver.md
+++ b/content/Blog/great-set-of-vb-videos-posted-on-channel-9-paul-vick-and-amanada-silver.md
@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
---
date: 2005-02-07T19:31:00+00:00
-title: Great set of VB videos posted on Channel 9… Paul Vick and Amanada Silver
+title: Great set of VB videos posted on Channel 9... Paul Vick and Amanada Silver
type: posts
---
-Get the inside story on VB. Watch these Channel 9 interviews with Visual Basic team members Paul Vick (technical lead) and Amanda Silver (program manager),
+Get the inside story on VB. Watch these Channel 9 interviews with Visual Basic team members Paul Vick (technical lead) and Amanda Silver (program manager),
Paul Vick – Why would a VB 6.0'er consider VB.NET?
Paul Vick – What makes a great Visual Basic programmer?
Paul Vick – What are some Visual Basic optimization tips?
Paul Vick – What does Whidbey change in the VB language?
Paul Vick – What has Visual Basic learned from the Web?
Paul Vick – How does Microsoft stay relevant to next generation of programmers? 
Amanda Silver – What does the lineage of VB mean to you? 
Amanda Silver – Getting into Visual Basic.NET
Amanda Silver – What's the killer feature in next version of Visual Basic?
Amanda Silver – Demonstration of code separation in next version of Visual Basic
). I'm also 3-away on [MP3 Players 4 Free](http://www.mp3players4free.com/default.aspx?r=206786), and 4-away on [PSPs 4 Free](http://www.psps4free.com/default.aspx?r=315551) (that isn't saying much, it only takes 5 to get a PSP 🙂 ) ... but I'm not holding my breath, I got a free monitor out of the experience so I figure all the forms, referrals and the hassles have been worth it.
+Gratis was the company behind the free flat screen site through which I received [my Sony LCD monitor](http://blogs.duncanmackenzie.net/duncanma/archive/2005/04/27/1400.aspx), but the only sites I still follow are those run by OfferCentric, because they offer a wider range of 'gift' choices, usually including a PayPal option (which seems almost as good as cash to me). I've been sitting at 3-away on [PVPs 4 Free](http://www.pvps4free.com/default.aspx?r=160508) for months now, but during that time they have added a bunch of new video players (including the Samsung portable media center, and the new Creative Zen Vision 
](http://www.ttgames.com/node/119" target="_new" atomicselection="true)
diff --git a/content/Blog/im-leaving-the-msdn-content-team.md b/content/Blog/im-leaving-the-msdn-content-team.md
index 2d0aa532..fe06dbca 100644
--- a/content/Blog/im-leaving-the-msdn-content-team.md
+++ b/content/Blog/im-leaving-the-msdn-content-team.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2004-10-14T07:55:00+00:00
-title: I’m leaving the MSDN Content Team…
+title: I'm leaving the MSDN Content Team...
type: posts
---
Recently I transitioned the C# Content Strategist role over to [Frank Redmond](http://blogs.msdn.com/frankred), but that was only the first of several changes for me at MSDN. Today, [my boss made the rest of the changes public](http://weblogs.asp.net/mpowell/archive/2004/10/13/241982.aspx), so now I can talk about it 🙂
diff --git a/content/Blog/im-making-a-change-a-rambling-post-that-contains-some-nuggets-of-information.md b/content/Blog/im-making-a-change-a-rambling-post-that-contains-some-nuggets-of-information.md
index 93da0d07..bf354009 100644
--- a/content/Blog/im-making-a-change-a-rambling-post-that-contains-some-nuggets-of-information.md
+++ b/content/Blog/im-making-a-change-a-rambling-post-that-contains-some-nuggets-of-information.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2005-12-17T09:31:00+00:00
-title: I’m making a change… (a rambling post that contains some nuggets of information)
+title: I'm making a change... (a rambling post that contains some nuggets of information)
type: posts
---
I've recently accepted a job with the [Channel 9 team](http://channel9.msdn.com/about.aspx) (working for [Jeff](http://www.jeffsandquist.com/) and working with [Adam](http://www.adamkinney.com), [Erik](http://weblogs.asp.net/eporter/), [Robert](http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/), and [Charles](http://carmine.blogs.com/kernel/)), and ... because I'm mostly a one-job kind of guy, that means I have to stop working at MSDN. So, come January 16th, I'll be over in a new office at Channel 9, probably not coding anything yet as it always take a few days to get ramped up, connected to the right source trees, etc...
diff --git a/content/Blog/im-on-10-covering-some-new-portable-media-center-devices-and-more.md b/content/Blog/im-on-10-covering-some-new-portable-media-center-devices-and-more.md
index c7b81a0b..f7ab2736 100644
--- a/content/Blog/im-on-10-covering-some-new-portable-media-center-devices-and-more.md
+++ b/content/Blog/im-on-10-covering-some-new-portable-media-center-devices-and-more.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2006-03-20T22:58:00+00:00
-title: I’m on 10, covering some new Portable Media Center devices and more…
+title: I'm on 10, covering some new Portable Media Center devices and more...
type: posts
---
If you are interested in portable video, downloading video podcasts, etc... [check out today's episode on 10 ](http://on10.net/TheShow/1246/) ... featuring me!
diff --git a/content/Blog/im-planning-to-get-rid-of-setting-our-theme-in-asp-net.md b/content/Blog/im-planning-to-get-rid-of-setting-our-theme-in-asp-net.md
index f70269e9..b439a23e 100644
--- a/content/Blog/im-planning-to-get-rid-of-setting-our-theme-in-asp-net.md
+++ b/content/Blog/im-planning-to-get-rid-of-setting-our-theme-in-asp-net.md
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
---
date: 2007-12-17T00:46:00+00:00
-title: I’m planning to get rid of setting our Theme in ASP.NET
+title: I'm planning to get rid of setting our Theme in ASP.NET
type: posts
---
-The auto inclusion of all our CSS files has finally become too annoying. We'll still use the app_theme directory, as it is a handy way to store our stuff... but I'm really hoping to not set the theme, and to add the appropriate CSS for the situation (mobile vs desktop for example) while also combining our CSS files and [‘minifying' them all](http://csstidy.sourceforge.net/) through a simple ‘css.ashx' style handler. This should make it easier to do that combining at run time, while leaving them nice and separate for debug and development purposes.
+The auto inclusion of all our CSS files has finally become too annoying. We'll still use the app_theme directory, as it is a handy way to store our stuff... but I'm really hoping to not set the theme, and to add the appropriate CSS for the situation (mobile vs desktop for example) while also combining our CSS files and ['minifying' them all](http://csstidy.sourceforge.net/) through a simple 'css.ashx' style handler. This should make it easier to do that combining at run time, while leaving them nice and separate for debug and development purposes.
diff --git a/content/Blog/im-playing-around-a-bit.md b/content/Blog/im-playing-around-a-bit.md
index 3dc80fb3..27871bd8 100644
--- a/content/Blog/im-playing-around-a-bit.md
+++ b/content/Blog/im-playing-around-a-bit.md
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
---
date: 2004-06-08T03:10:00+00:00
-title: I’m playing around a bit…
+title: I'm playing around a bit...
type: posts
---
-I've added some functionality to my personal site because I now have SQL Server available on the back end... so, as a test, I've put a voting component onto the home page at [http://www.duncanmackenzie.net](http://www.duncanmackenzie.net) ... I plan to add some features to it (like ‘just show me the results, I don't want to vote'), but for now feel free to check it out as it is.
+I've added some functionality to my personal site because I now have SQL Server available on the back end... so, as a test, I've put a voting component onto the home page at [http://www.duncanmackenzie.net](http://www.duncanmackenzie.net) ... I plan to add some features to it (like 'just show me the results, I don't want to vote'), but for now feel free to check it out as it is.
-Note that, at the moment, I am just using the component that is in use on [www.asp.net](http://www.asp.net) and is available from the ‘control gallery' on that site.
+Note that, at the moment, I am just using the component that is in use on [www.asp.net](http://www.asp.net) and is available from the 'control gallery' on that site.
diff --git a/content/Blog/im-thinking-about-installing-text-into-my-own-web-site.md b/content/Blog/im-thinking-about-installing-text-into-my-own-web-site.md
index 82aa7cba..189412e4 100644
--- a/content/Blog/im-thinking-about-installing-text-into-my-own-web-site.md
+++ b/content/Blog/im-thinking-about-installing-text-into-my-own-web-site.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2004-08-12T07:22:00+00:00
-title: I’m thinking about installing .Text into my own web-site…
+title: I'm thinking about installing .Text into my own web-site...
type: posts
---
And maybe the Forums code too... Nothing against www.asp.net, but I'm just thinking it might be interesting to host my own blog... moving seems _disruptive_ though, leaving a large number of my posts here, new ones there.... what do you folks think? Have you thought about hosting your own blog... are you already doing it .... would you never leave the collective?
diff --git a/content/Blog/im-thinking-of-adding-loginregistration-to-my-personal-site.md b/content/Blog/im-thinking-of-adding-loginregistration-to-my-personal-site.md
index 0685dd20..c871ec4f 100644
--- a/content/Blog/im-thinking-of-adding-loginregistration-to-my-personal-site.md
+++ b/content/Blog/im-thinking-of-adding-loginregistration-to-my-personal-site.md
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
---
date: 2004-07-27T02:54:00+00:00
-title: I’m thinking of adding login/registration to my personal site…
+title: I'm thinking of adding login/registration to my personal site...
type: posts
---
-Not sure what scenarios this will be used to enable in the long run, but I might play around with some web services (with authentication) and a few ‘prototypes' for articles and MSDN features that I've been musing about...
+Not sure what scenarios this will be used to enable in the long run, but I might play around with some web services (with authentication) and a few 'prototypes' for articles and MSDN features that I've been musing about...
* Do you run a personal site?
* Do you have any form of authentication?
diff --git a/content/Blog/im-thinking-of-putting-msn-search-onto-my-sites.md b/content/Blog/im-thinking-of-putting-msn-search-onto-my-sites.md
index e8a27068..9f25ea67 100644
--- a/content/Blog/im-thinking-of-putting-msn-search-onto-my-sites.md
+++ b/content/Blog/im-thinking-of-putting-msn-search-onto-my-sites.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2006-01-20T17:21:00+00:00
-title: I’m thinking of putting MSN Search onto my site(s)
+title: I'm thinking of putting MSN Search onto my site(s)
type: posts
---
-With their [SDK](http://msdn.microsoft.com/msn/msnsearch/), [search results as RSS](http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=MSDN+site%3aduncanmackenzie.net&format=rss&FORM=RSRE), and ability to limit searches by site (so you can do queries like [MSDN site:duncanmackenzie.net](http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=MSDN+site%3Aduncanmackenzie.net&FORM=QBRE)), I think I'll be able to provide a nice little ‘cross property' search for my blog and my personal site. Replacing the google search box on my site isn't a big priority for me, but writing this widget might be useful to other folks as well... but until MSN gets an AdSense like program, Google is likely to own at least a part of my web site real estate 🙂
+With their [SDK](http://msdn.microsoft.com/msn/msnsearch/), [search results as RSS](http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=MSDN+site%3aduncanmackenzie.net&format=rss&FORM=RSRE), and ability to limit searches by site (so you can do queries like [MSDN site:duncanmackenzie.net](http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=MSDN+site%3Aduncanmackenzie.net&FORM=QBRE)), I think I'll be able to provide a nice little 'cross property' search for my blog and my personal site. Replacing the google search box on my site isn't a big priority for me, but writing this widget might be useful to other folks as well... but until MSN gets an AdSense like program, Google is likely to own at least a part of my web site real estate 🙂
diff --git a/content/Blog/im-wearing-makeup-how-unusual.md b/content/Blog/im-wearing-makeup-how-unusual.md
index f54df022..4141c2d3 100644
--- a/content/Blog/im-wearing-makeup-how-unusual.md
+++ b/content/Blog/im-wearing-makeup-how-unusual.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2006-03-16T22:06:00+00:00
-title: I’m wearing makeup… how unusual… :)
+title: I'm wearing makeup... how unusual... :)
type: posts
---
I'm on the set of [10](http://on10.net) today, filming a segment. Crazy stuff for a dev!
diff --git a/content/Blog/imageshack-toolbar-causes-incorrect-results-from-asp-nets-browser-checking-code.md b/content/Blog/imageshack-toolbar-causes-incorrect-results-from-asp-nets-browser-checking-code.md
index 78c843c8..03db36c8 100644
--- a/content/Blog/imageshack-toolbar-causes-incorrect-results-from-asp-nets-browser-checking-code.md
+++ b/content/Blog/imageshack-toolbar-causes-incorrect-results-from-asp-nets-browser-checking-code.md
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
---
date: 2008-01-10T12:09:00+00:00
-title: ImageShack Toolbar causes incorrect results from ASP.NET’s browser checking code
+title: ImageShack Toolbar causes incorrect results from ASP.NET's browser checking code
type: posts
---
-We recently updated a few of our web sites with code that would provide a ‘nicer' experience for browsers that were not compatible with the ASP.NET ATLAS (AJAX) scripts we were using. For some reason though, a few users who were running a fully compatible browser (Firefox 2.0.0.*), were seeing the no-script experience. We were puzzled, but one of the users figured out that their ImageShack toolbar might be causing the problem. Sure enough, after I installed that same toolbar myself I was able to test and confirm that it truly is causing the confusion.
+We recently updated a few of our web sites with code that would provide a 'nicer' experience for browsers that were not compatible with the ASP.NET ATLAS (AJAX) scripts we were using. For some reason though, a few users who were running a fully compatible browser (Firefox 2.0.0.*), were seeing the no-script experience. We were puzzled, but one of the users figured out that their ImageShack toolbar might be causing the problem. Sure enough, after I installed that same toolbar myself I was able to test and confirm that it truly is causing the confusion.
Using a little test page, [http://www.duncanmackenzie.net/services/browserinfo.aspx](http://www.duncanmackenzie.net/services/browserinfo.aspx "http://www.duncanmackenzie.net/services/browserinfo.aspx") (feel free to use it for your own testing), I received the following results for Firefox 2.0.0.11 on Vista **before** installing the ImageShack toolbar.
@@ -39,4 +39,4 @@ Request.Browser
-Note the version change and the change in Request.Browser.Browser, certainly enough to throw off our atlas-compatibility check. I haven't figured out the appropriate fix for this yet, but it is nice to at least have one possible explanation as to why valid browsers are sometimes seeing our ‘no script' experience.
+Note the version change and the change in Request.Browser.Browser, certainly enough to throw off our atlas-compatibility check. I haven't figured out the appropriate fix for this yet, but it is nice to at least have one possible explanation as to why valid browsers are sometimes seeing our 'no script' experience.
diff --git a/content/Blog/immediate-action-feeds.md b/content/Blog/immediate-action-feeds.md
index bd726a32..ddb4caff 100644
--- a/content/Blog/immediate-action-feeds.md
+++ b/content/Blog/immediate-action-feeds.md
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ type: posts
The suggestion in the article, and it works just fine, is to just add these immediate action links into the body of your feed item. This will seem like a meaningless distinction to some, but to me that is not the best way to go. The links are about the content of the post; they themselves are not the content, so **they don't belong in the content**.
-Having them in the markup of the post means that every feed producer will put their ‘actions' wherever they want them, and you can bet it won't be in any consistent fashion. Instead, what I would like to see is a list of ‘actions' as a separate part of the feed item. Then the software that is displaying the feed could implement a common method of displaying the list of actions associated with a specific item. In one application this might be a right-click menu option, while in another it could be a sidebar along side the post.... but because the actions are clearly separated from the content it opens up the possibility of displaying them in whatever fashion the application author believes will be most usable.
+Having them in the markup of the post means that every feed producer will put their 'actions' wherever they want them, and you can bet it won't be in any consistent fashion. Instead, what I would like to see is a list of 'actions' as a separate part of the feed item. Then the software that is displaying the feed could implement a common method of displaying the list of actions associated with a specific item. In one application this might be a right-click menu option, while in another it could be a sidebar along side the post.... but because the actions are clearly separated from the content it opens up the possibility of displaying them in whatever fashion the application author believes will be most usable.
So, instead of this
diff --git a/content/Blog/implicit-relationship-between-search-crawler-and-content-providers.md b/content/Blog/implicit-relationship-between-search-crawler-and-content-providers.md
index 328ef29e..5cd30039 100644
--- a/content/Blog/implicit-relationship-between-search-crawler-and-content-providers.md
+++ b/content/Blog/implicit-relationship-between-search-crawler-and-content-providers.md
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
---
date: 2006-01-12T05:47:00+00:00
-title: Implicit relationship between search crawler and content providers…
+title: Implicit relationship between search crawler and content providers...
type: posts
---
A discussion at work today, along with my earlier post about [Phil's issues with Google and MSN](http://blogs.duncanmackenzie.net/duncanma/archive/2006/01/09/3517.aspx), had me searching like crazy for this comment:
-> "I think they're also vulnerable to being locked out of sites because they've missed the implicit bargain for search engines that my site being crawled results in listing for me. Without any public facing services how do I find out what value I am getting from allowing WebFountain to crawl my site ?" — [Matthew Walker's comment on a Searchblog piece about WebFountain](http://battellemedia.com/archives/000428.php#comment_598)
+> "I think they're also vulnerable to being locked out of sites because they've missed the implicit bargain for search engines that my site being crawled results in listing for me. Without any public facing services how do I find out what value I am getting from allowing WebFountain to crawl my site ?" – [Matthew Walker's comment on a Searchblog piece about WebFountain](http://battellemedia.com/archives/000428.php#comment_598)
At what point do you block a search crawler? If you don't recognize it? If you don't like the results provided by the search engine it is crawling for?
diff --git a/content/Blog/in-case-none-of-you-web-heads-have-noticed.md b/content/Blog/in-case-none-of-you-web-heads-have-noticed.md
index 41be1a28..ab09d697 100644
--- a/content/Blog/in-case-none-of-you-web-heads-have-noticed.md
+++ b/content/Blog/in-case-none-of-you-web-heads-have-noticed.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2003-06-13T01:39:00+00:00
-title: In case none of you web-heads have noticed….
+title: In case none of you web-heads have noticed....
type: posts
---
The new ASP.NET developer center has launched at 
](http://www.duncanmackenzie.net/images/6e44eb47-0d77-4d90-8164-04a4c7a35b63.jpg" rel="lightbox[559]" title="New Jetpac Refueled Graphics)
-Of course, and I would have expected this for all ‘retro' games, you can still play in ‘old skool' mode too...
+Of course, and I would have expected this for all 'retro' games, you can still play in 'old skool' mode too...
[
](http://www.duncanmackenzie.net/images/d911ca3a-341a-4f68-8d04-eee8ec9e6820.jpg" rel="lightbox[559]" title="Original Graphics)
-I get the appeal of playing the ‘original' way, but for games on the 360 I have been pretty disappointed in the lack of extras added to the new versions. Can you imagine Time Pilot where you could choose to play the original or the new awesomeness that would be possible on the 360?
+I get the appeal of playing the 'original' way, but for games on the 360 I have been pretty disappointed in the lack of extras added to the new versions. Can you imagine Time Pilot where you could choose to play the original or the new awesomeness that would be possible on the 360?
diff --git a/content/Blog/jf-send-me-your-code.md b/content/Blog/jf-send-me-your-code.md
index eb076169..7778e27f 100644
--- a/content/Blog/jf-send-me-your-code.md
+++ b/content/Blog/jf-send-me-your-code.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2005-04-17T04:52:00+00:00
-title: jf…. send me your code…
+title: jf.... send me your code...
type: posts
---
jf has been having issues with [my control](http://blogs.duncanmackenzie.net/duncanma/archive/2005/04/15/1321.aspx), and I have no idea why... if it will help, him or anyone else, there is the original version of the code and a test form available for download [here](http://www.duncanmackenzie.net/samples/#divider)
diff --git a/content/Blog/joels-doing-a-webcast-well-2-actually.md b/content/Blog/joels-doing-a-webcast-well-2-actually.md
index b8646516..b0e7a9de 100644
--- a/content/Blog/joels-doing-a-webcast-well-2-actually.md
+++ b/content/Blog/joels-doing-a-webcast-well-2-actually.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2004-02-19T20:42:00+00:00
-title: Joel’s doing a webcast (well, 2 actually)
+title: Joel's doing a webcast (well, 2 actually)
type: posts
---
-[Joel Semeniuk](http://weblogs.asp.net/Jsemeniuk/), (my former roommate, co-founder of my first software development company, and now a co-founder of [Imaginets](http://www.Imaginets.com)), is doing [a security webcast for MSDN](http://msdn.microsoft.com/security/understanding/webcasts/)... something about ‘threat modeling' or ‘model threatening', I'm really not sure which, but I'm sure it will be entertaining either way.
+[Joel Semeniuk](http://weblogs.asp.net/Jsemeniuk/), (my former roommate, co-founder of my first software development company, and now a co-founder of [Imaginets](http://www.Imaginets.com)), is doing [a security webcast for MSDN](http://msdn.microsoft.com/security/understanding/webcasts/)... something about 'threat modeling' or 'model threatening', I'm really not sure which, but I'm sure it will be entertaining either way.
diff --git a/content/Blog/joels-here.md b/content/Blog/joels-here.md
index a91f6b80..f3496775 100644
--- a/content/Blog/joels-here.md
+++ b/content/Blog/joels-here.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2003-03-18T12:24:00+00:00
-title: Joel’s here!
+title: Joel's here!
type: posts
---
[
diff --git a/content/Blog/just-arrived-for-asp-net-connections.md b/content/Blog/just-arrived-for-asp-net-connections.md
index 6d826ab2..71f001ff 100644
--- a/content/Blog/just-arrived-for-asp-net-connections.md
+++ b/content/Blog/just-arrived-for-asp-net-connections.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2005-11-08T05:26:00+00:00
-title: Just arrived for ASP.NET Connections…
+title: Just arrived for ASP.NET Connections...
type: posts
---
Landed in Vegas for the [conference](http://www.devconnections.com/shows/aspfall2005/default.asp?s=65), talk is on Thursday.... I'll be talking about [MSDN2.microsoft.com](http://msdn2.microsoft.com), but more specifically I'll be covering the use of the Virtual Page Provider feature in ASP.NET 2.0, so if that type of thing appeals to you, come by and check it out!
diff --git a/content/Blog/just-finished-a-long-long-day-of-shooting-with-bridges-to-understanding.md b/content/Blog/just-finished-a-long-long-day-of-shooting-with-bridges-to-understanding.md
index 8a982cf8..d06d0215 100644
--- a/content/Blog/just-finished-a-long-long-day-of-shooting-with-bridges-to-understanding.md
+++ b/content/Blog/just-finished-a-long-long-day-of-shooting-with-bridges-to-understanding.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2006-05-10T02:08:00+00:00
-title: Just finished a long long day of shooting with “Bridges To Understanding”
+title: Just finished a long long day of shooting with "Bridges To Understanding"
type: posts
---
This group, [http://www.bridgesweb.org](http://www.bridgesweb.org), is an amazing example of what I think [http://on10.net](http://on10.net/about.aspx) is all about. Phil Borges and the other folks involved with this non-profit devote an enormous amount of time to travelling the world and helping kids tell their stories using the new technologies available today. Here is a shot I took today of one of the workshop participants (Mel) helping one of the kids (Stefano?) take some great shots of a steam engine... and yes, I suck at remembering names!
diff --git a/content/Blog/just-got-into-las-vegas-ebay-and-paypal-conference-here-i-come.md b/content/Blog/just-got-into-las-vegas-ebay-and-paypal-conference-here-i-come.md
index c36f88ee..7699fe76 100644
--- a/content/Blog/just-got-into-las-vegas-ebay-and-paypal-conference-here-i-come.md
+++ b/content/Blog/just-got-into-las-vegas-ebay-and-paypal-conference-here-i-come.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2006-06-11T02:14:00+00:00
-title: Just got into Las Vegas, eBay and PayPal conference here I come…
+title: Just got into Las Vegas, eBay and PayPal conference here I come...
type: posts
---
I just got to my hotel (the Aladdin) here in Vegas; ready to roam around the conferences looking for folks to film for [Channel 9](http://channel9.msdn.com) (or [10](http://on10.net), if the topic fits). Hmm... Vegas and a video camera... could be trouble. 🙂
diff --git a/content/Blog/just-noticed-that-the-free-mp3-players-site-has-the-creative-zen-micro-now.md b/content/Blog/just-noticed-that-the-free-mp3-players-site-has-the-creative-zen-micro-now.md
index 6194d6a4..ce6f6cd7 100644
--- a/content/Blog/just-noticed-that-the-free-mp3-players-site-has-the-creative-zen-micro-now.md
+++ b/content/Blog/just-noticed-that-the-free-mp3-players-site-has-the-creative-zen-micro-now.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2005-04-11T17:55:00+00:00
-title: Just noticed that the free mp3 players site has the Creative Zen Micro now…
+title: Just noticed that the free mp3 players site has the Creative Zen Micro now...
type: posts
---
Of course, the iPod has been available (and widely publicized) through these free sites for a while ([shuffle](http://www.FreeiPodShuffle.com/?r=14790940), [regular/mini](http://www.freeiPods.com/?r=14756414), or [photo model](http://www.freephotoiPods.com/?r=14863034) all have their own sites), but if you are like me and you want to use a media player that works with more than one brand of device, or if you want to stick with WMA (I have ripped 15 GB of my music into that format, and it works great with [my Rio Nitrus and wife's Rio Cali](http://www.digitalnetworksna.com/rioaudio/default.asp?cat=35)... so I'm sticking there for the forseeable future!), then [the Zen Micro](http://www.creative.com/zenmicro/) might be worth taking a look.
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ type: posts
Specs of the Zen Micro that is available through [MP3Players4Free](http://www.mp3players4free.com/default.aspx?r=206786):
> * Holds 2,500 songs on 5GB hard drive
-> * Micro sized (3.3″ tall, 2″ wide, 0.7″ deep)
+> * Micro sized (3.3" tall, 2" wide, 0.7" deep)
> * Get up to 12 hours playback on a single charge
> * FM radio to listen and record
> * Built-in mic for up to 10hrs voice recording
diff --git a/content/Blog/just-pulled-down-the-cs-1-0-source-now-to-start-working-on-a-migration-plan.md b/content/Blog/just-pulled-down-the-cs-1-0-source-now-to-start-working-on-a-migration-plan.md
index 683b9f91..cba068ed 100644
--- a/content/Blog/just-pulled-down-the-cs-1-0-source-now-to-start-working-on-a-migration-plan.md
+++ b/content/Blog/just-pulled-down-the-cs-1-0-source-now-to-start-working-on-a-migration-plan.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2005-02-27T05:38:00+00:00
-title: Just pulled down the CS 1.0 source… now to start working on a migration plan
+title: Just pulled down the CS 1.0 source... now to start working on a migration plan
type: posts
---
Currently I'm running .Text .94 + a bunch of private modifications and some version of CS:Forums + a bunch of private modifications... so [now that CS 1.0's source is out](http://weblogs.asp.net/rhoward/archive/2005/02/25/380444.aspx), I want to incorporate my mods into the combined package and then migrate my data and get my site up and running on the new stuff. As cool as that is, and while I'm sure it has excellent tools/scripts for upgrading, I'm not looking forward to it. It was hard enough to get my site set up now, with blogs.duncanmackenzie.net running as its own app domain and then trying to make the Forums code work when the application started at the root not at /Forums. Anyway, suffice it to say I don't expect to upgrade right away, but maybe I'll have a copy of the site upgraded and sitting on my dev box within the next week....
diff --git a/content/Blog/just-saw-a-concert-already-have-the-live-cd.md b/content/Blog/just-saw-a-concert-already-have-the-live-cd.md
index 5d14c89f..df69ab7f 100644
--- a/content/Blog/just-saw-a-concert-already-have-the-live-cd.md
+++ b/content/Blog/just-saw-a-concert-already-have-the-live-cd.md
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
---
date: 2004-06-21T10:20:00+00:00
-title: Just saw a concert… already have the live CD…
+title: Just saw a concert... already have the live CD...
type: posts
---
It is like bootleg concert recordings but the quality is better and I had to pay for it 🙂
-Tonight my wife and I went out to [a Jewel Concert](http://www.instantliveconcerts.com/bands_main.php3?id=192), which was great... although our position on the grass gave us a better view of one of the main support poles on the stage than of Jewel herself... and at the end of the show, we picked up our "Instant Live" CD of the concert (yes, the concert that had just ended). I wasn't keeping exact track, but it seems like it was approximately 15 minutes from the end of the show until the first boxes of CDs, already in _‘jewel'_ cases, came out for distribution.
+Tonight my wife and I went out to [a Jewel Concert](http://www.instantliveconcerts.com/bands_main.php3?id=192), which was great... although our position on the grass gave us a better view of one of the main support poles on the stage than of Jewel herself... and at the end of the show, we picked up our "Instant Live" CD of the concert (yes, the concert that had just ended). I wasn't keeping exact track, but it seems like it was approximately 15 minutes from the end of the show until the first boxes of CDs, already in _'jewel'_ cases, came out for distribution.
Now, if you really wanted to, you could just leave and then go to their website and order a recording (for $5 more, but only if you already had paid for a CD at the show), but I really wanted to have the actual disc within minutes of watching the show, so I made Laura (my wife) wait 🙂
diff --git a/content/Blog/just-showed-up-in-san-mateo-heading-over-to-makers-faire-tomorrow-morning.md b/content/Blog/just-showed-up-in-san-mateo-heading-over-to-makers-faire-tomorrow-morning.md
index 0b93484b..3c434a99 100644
--- a/content/Blog/just-showed-up-in-san-mateo-heading-over-to-makers-faire-tomorrow-morning.md
+++ b/content/Blog/just-showed-up-in-san-mateo-heading-over-to-makers-faire-tomorrow-morning.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2006-04-23T04:33:00+00:00
-title: Just showed up in San Mateo, heading over to Makers Faire tomorrow morning…
+title: Just showed up in San Mateo, heading over to Makers Faire tomorrow morning...
type: posts
---
I'll be [there](http://makezine.com/faire/) tomorrow with [Laura Foy](http://on10.net/people/laura/) (host) and Scott Finley (expert camera dude).... and I'll be doing... well, it is hard to describe what I'll be doing, but hopefully most of it will be fun!
diff --git a/content/Blog/justin-rogers-with-another-great-blog-post-series.md b/content/Blog/justin-rogers-with-another-great-blog-post-series.md
index cb7a443e..c48c571e 100644
--- a/content/Blog/justin-rogers-with-another-great-blog-post-series.md
+++ b/content/Blog/justin-rogers-with-another-great-blog-post-series.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2004-10-13T08:12:00+00:00
-title: Justin Rogers with another great blog post series…
+title: Justin Rogers with another great blog post series...
type: posts
---
Justin worked (and still works?) on the Terrarium system and uses that experience as an example as he discusses various gaming topics in his blog... including yesterday's post on creating random world content.
diff --git a/content/Blog/jyve-a-clear-example-of-the-new-trend-enabling-individuals-to-work-without-a-company.md b/content/Blog/jyve-a-clear-example-of-the-new-trend-enabling-individuals-to-work-without-a-company.md
index d5e2ac5e..181f1593 100644
--- a/content/Blog/jyve-a-clear-example-of-the-new-trend-enabling-individuals-to-work-without-a-company.md
+++ b/content/Blog/jyve-a-clear-example-of-the-new-trend-enabling-individuals-to-work-without-a-company.md
@@ -5,4 +5,4 @@ type: posts
---
I've been thinking lately that blogging, podcasting and video blogging (vlogging?) show how individuals are able to create content so easily that the wave of independent content producers are sometimes more powerful than the large organizations they are competing with. This is not a new thought, but what I saw today certainly made me think it again.
-[Jyve](http://www.jyve.com/) is a Skype based app that lets individuals register themselves as experts in certain fields (French teacher, AJAX development, iPods, whatever) and then people can contact them (searching through Jyve's directory of all the registered experts by topic) and start a Skype call (chat and email are also available) with them. The customer (who has created an account, including payment info) and expert negotiate a per minute (or flat fee) rate, and then the call starts up including a metering interface somewhat like a taxi-cab... tracking the total cost of the ‘lesson'. You can also charge for documents, sent through Skype's file sharing features, so if you had a great set of Visual Studio templates, or a PDF of information related to... well, whatever it is you are an expert on... then you could sell it to your customer for a flat fee. Picture it... giving expert consulting right from your home... even if that home is in Mexico and all your customers are in Europe.
+[Jyve](http://www.jyve.com/) is a Skype based app that lets individuals register themselves as experts in certain fields (French teacher, AJAX development, iPods, whatever) and then people can contact them (searching through Jyve's directory of all the registered experts by topic) and start a Skype call (chat and email are also available) with them. The customer (who has created an account, including payment info) and expert negotiate a per minute (or flat fee) rate, and then the call starts up including a metering interface somewhat like a taxi-cab... tracking the total cost of the 'lesson'. You can also charge for documents, sent through Skype's file sharing features, so if you had a great set of Visual Studio templates, or a PDF of information related to... well, whatever it is you are an expert on... then you could sell it to your customer for a flat fee. Picture it... giving expert consulting right from your home... even if that home is in Mexico and all your customers are in Europe.
diff --git a/content/Blog/keeping-in-touch-a-new-xbox-dad-article-is-live.md b/content/Blog/keeping-in-touch-a-new-xbox-dad-article-is-live.md
index 18c97ad3..e5545de0 100644
--- a/content/Blog/keeping-in-touch-a-new-xbox-dad-article-is-live.md
+++ b/content/Blog/keeping-in-touch-a-new-xbox-dad-article-is-live.md
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ date: 2007-06-14T17:32:00+00:00
title: Keeping in Touch, a new Xbox Dad article is live
type: posts
---
-It has been ‘marketized' a bit from how I originally wrote it (with the addition of a product name right into the title for one), but a ‘father's day' article from me is up on Xbox.com
+It has been 'marketized' a bit from how I originally wrote it (with the addition of a product name right into the title for one), but a 'father's day' article from me is up on Xbox.com
> ###
>
diff --git a/content/Blog/kent-is-gone-ok-not-really-gone-but-gone-from-msdn.md b/content/Blog/kent-is-gone-ok-not-really-gone-but-gone-from-msdn.md
index 4c4cc6a1..57b646c5 100644
--- a/content/Blog/kent-is-gone-ok-not-really-gone-but-gone-from-msdn.md
+++ b/content/Blog/kent-is-gone-ok-not-really-gone-but-gone-from-msdn.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2005-11-11T22:19:00+00:00
-title: Kent is gone… ok, not really “gone”, but gone from MSDN…
+title: Kent is gone... ok, not really "gone", but gone from MSDN...
type: posts
---
It is a sad day for MSDN and Microsoft, [Kent Sharkey](http://www.acmebinary.com/blogs/kent) (ASP.NET & Coding4Fun content strategist, coder of many of the coolest things on MSDN and the guy to whom I send entire projects full of not quite working code with the message "help!?!?") has left to become an independent consultant type guy... Expect MSDN to get a bit duller as of this moment 🙂
diff --git a/content/Blog/kent-sharkeys-been-a-busy-guy.md b/content/Blog/kent-sharkeys-been-a-busy-guy.md
index caa2fc3d..ddaf24c2 100644
--- a/content/Blog/kent-sharkeys-been-a-busy-guy.md
+++ b/content/Blog/kent-sharkeys-been-a-busy-guy.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2007-04-05T08:13:00+00:00
-title: Kent Sharkey’s been a busy guy
+title: Kent Sharkey's been a busy guy
type: posts
---
Kent's blog is back online and in one of his recent posts he updates us on all the projects he's been working since he left Microsoft (where we were both working at MSDN as content strategists)... tons of cool stuff, definitely worth reading through and following some links.
diff --git a/content/Blog/korby-speculates-on-the-marketing-strategy-behind-10s-quiet-launch.md b/content/Blog/korby-speculates-on-the-marketing-strategy-behind-10s-quiet-launch.md
index cc68c1cd..38bbdcad 100644
--- a/content/Blog/korby-speculates-on-the-marketing-strategy-behind-10s-quiet-launch.md
+++ b/content/Blog/korby-speculates-on-the-marketing-strategy-behind-10s-quiet-launch.md
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
---
date: 2006-04-01T05:50:00+00:00
-title: Korby speculates on the marketing strategy behind 10’s quiet launch
+title: Korby speculates on the marketing strategy behind 10's quiet launch
type: posts
---
Personally, I always hated it when people in various product groups at Microsoft would ask me to blog about a specific launch or event... because if I decided to do it, my blog post would go up into a sea of similar posts all appearing within a few hours of each other on blogs.msdn.com. How does that make you, the reader, feel? Like you are having information pushed at you through a channel that is normally about technical matters. Now, if one blogger does that, that seems fine... they are involved in the product or event and they are excited about it... why shouldn't they blog about it? But when 50 people do it, you can expect that someone behind the scenes decided that the power of blogs was too cheap and easy not to try and use it to promote their wares.
-So, back to the point.... [why didn't we annouce 
](http://on10.net/Blogs/TheShow/3723/)
diff --git a/content/Blog/more-book-spotting-front-table-spot-in-a-local-borders.md b/content/Blog/more-book-spotting-front-table-spot-in-a-local-borders.md
index 434c5afa..4ba7cb01 100644
--- a/content/Blog/more-book-spotting-front-table-spot-in-a-local-borders.md
+++ b/content/Blog/more-book-spotting-front-table-spot-in-a-local-borders.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2006-02-10T04:46:00+00:00
-title: More book spotting… front table spot in a local Borders…
+title: More book spotting... front table spot in a local Borders...
type: posts
---
[From Brian's blog](http://spaces.msn.com/brianjo/Blog/cns!57C723EC58B8F3A3!534.entry) (via his wife)
diff --git a/content/Blog/more-on-pulling-msdn-content-into-my-site.md b/content/Blog/more-on-pulling-msdn-content-into-my-site.md
index c01a8fad..59976fb6 100644
--- a/content/Blog/more-on-pulling-msdn-content-into-my-site.md
+++ b/content/Blog/more-on-pulling-msdn-content-into-my-site.md
@@ -1,16 +1,16 @@
---
date: 2005-03-21T21:48:00+00:00
-title: More on “pulling” MSDN content into my site…
+title: More on "pulling" MSDN content into my site...
type: posts
---
In [my last post](http://blogs.duncanmackenzie.net/duncanma/archive/2005/03/19/1243.aspx), I was talking about pulling my articles from MSDN into the chrome of my site. This type of system could be created using a frameset, but frames are evil, so that isn't the approach I took. Instead, knowing a bit about the files on MSDN's web servers, I took advantage of a special xml file that exists for most of our articles. This file is created as part of our publishing process and exists so that we can pull articles into the chrome of our developer centers (like [this](http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/using/columns/code4fun/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dncodefun/html/code4fun12102003.asp)). It isn't a straight xhtml file, but it is almost identical to the html content of the article itself. Knowing that this file exists, my pull code just munges the original (MSDN) URL of the requested article to figure out the underlying xml file name, then loads up that xml. Once I have the xml content, I do a bit of work to the elements, to make all the relative links correctly point back to MSDN (for the images, related articles, links into the SDK, etc...) and then output html into a placeholder on my own page.
-Given a URL like [this](http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/using/columns/code4fun/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dncodefun/html/code4fun12102003.asp), you can remove the pull syntax (used by our developer centers) to come up with the library URL of this article, [/library/en-us/dncodefun/html/code4fun12102003.asp](http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dncodefun/html/code4fun12102003.asp), then apply a complex transform to produce the likely URL of the ‘behind-the-scenes' XML file: [/library/en-us/dncodefun/html/code4fun12102003.xml](http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dncodefun/html/code4fun12102003.xml).
+Given a URL like [this](http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/using/columns/code4fun/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dncodefun/html/code4fun12102003.asp), you can remove the pull syntax (used by our developer centers) to come up with the library URL of this article, [/library/en-us/dncodefun/html/code4fun12102003.asp](http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dncodefun/html/code4fun12102003.asp), then apply a complex transform to produce the likely URL of the 'behind-the-scenes' XML file: [/library/en-us/dncodefun/html/code4fun12102003.xml](http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dncodefun/html/code4fun12102003.xml).
It is possible that this XML file doesn't exist, so it is important to handle that possibility in your code. In my case, if I can't find the XML I just redirect to the original MSDN url. If the original URL doesn't appear to be well formed, I just give up completely and redirect to the home page of my own site.
_more details and code to follow...._
I've played around with coding against the Messenger APIs before, but it seems that MSN has really gone all out now and released a bunch of information for coding against their search, messenger, mapping services, and more... check it out on MSDN as of today!
diff --git a/content/Blog/new-pdc-site-is-up.md b/content/Blog/new-pdc-site-is-up.md
index 54dca8c9..93967811 100644
--- a/content/Blog/new-pdc-site-is-up.md
+++ b/content/Blog/new-pdc-site-is-up.md
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
---
date: 2003-10-28T00:32:00+00:00
-title: '“New” PDC site is up'
+title: '"New" PDC site is up'
type: posts
---
We updated the PDC site for the week of the event, check it out at 
](http://gadgetmodels.i4u.com/gadget_photo_model_April_20060.html)I've remarked to a few people that writing a more ‘consumer' focused book has been quite different from my usual area of writing (covering programming topics mostly), but [this takes the cake](http://spaces.msn.com/brianjo/blog/cns!57C723EC58B8F3A3!964.entry?_c11_blogpart_blogpart=blogview&_c=blogpart#permalink).
+[ 
](http://email.microsoft.com/m/p/msf/ftaf/dev/vis/webFtaf.asp)
diff --git a/content/Blog/ok-this-is-very-cool-hosting-your-own-instance-of-vss-code-editor.md b/content/Blog/ok-this-is-very-cool-hosting-your-own-instance-of-vss-code-editor.md
index f43a3b6f..6a49260b 100644
--- a/content/Blog/ok-this-is-very-cool-hosting-your-own-instance-of-vss-code-editor.md
+++ b/content/Blog/ok-this-is-very-cool-hosting-your-own-instance-of-vss-code-editor.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2004-08-30T20:52:00+00:00
-title: Ok… this is very cool, hosting your own instance of VS’s code editor?
+title: Ok... this is very cool, hosting your own instance of VS's code editor?
type: posts
---
Dr. Ex(tensibility) posted this recently;
diff --git a/content/Blog/on10-nets-tagging-gets-a-little-bit-more-connected.md b/content/Blog/on10-nets-tagging-gets-a-little-bit-more-connected.md
index 99339191..33f20935 100644
--- a/content/Blog/on10-nets-tagging-gets-a-little-bit-more-connected.md
+++ b/content/Blog/on10-nets-tagging-gets-a-little-bit-more-connected.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2006-04-07T01:48:00+00:00
-title: on10.net’s tagging gets a little bit more ‘connected’
+title: on10.net's tagging gets a little bit more 'connected'
type: posts
---
Erik extended our tag pages on on10.net a bit, [check out the full details here as part of our on10.net news blog](http://on10.net/Blogs/News/2013/).
diff --git a/content/Blog/on10-visits-penny-arcade.md b/content/Blog/on10-visits-penny-arcade.md
index 29b1b624..59c71b88 100644
--- a/content/Blog/on10-visits-penny-arcade.md
+++ b/content/Blog/on10-visits-penny-arcade.md
@@ -7,4 +7,4 @@ Yesterday, Laura and I headed over to the offices of [Penny Arcade](http://www.p
[
](http://www.flickr.com/photos/11836230@N00/199681348/)
-It may be hard to believe, but this was the best picture I could get. Someone's face is covered up in each and every shot I took, for some reason everyone was feeling very ‘gesturey' that day. At least Jerry wasn't covered up 🙂
+It may be hard to believe, but this was the best picture I could get. Someone's face is covered up in each and every shot I took, for some reason everyone was feeling very 'gesturey' that day. At least Jerry wasn't covered up 🙂
diff --git a/content/Blog/only-2-away-from-completion.md b/content/Blog/only-2-away-from-completion.md
index cef1766f..b7b3543f 100644
--- a/content/Blog/only-2-away-from-completion.md
+++ b/content/Blog/only-2-away-from-completion.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2005-02-17T06:51:00+00:00
-title: Only 2 away from completion …
+title: Only 2 away from completion ...
type: posts
---
-I'm up to 6 out of 8 referals on [the free flat screen offer site](http://www.FreeFlatScreens.com/?r=13882371), it will be interesting to see what the ‘order' process is like if I ever get to 8. Of course, in the time it has taken, I could have probably found some other way to get a LCD monitor for my wife's computer, but that wouldn't be sporting 🙂
+I'm up to 6 out of 8 referals on [the free flat screen offer site](http://www.FreeFlatScreens.com/?r=13882371), it will be interesting to see what the 'order' process is like if I ever get to 8. Of course, in the time it has taken, I could have probably found some other way to get a LCD monitor for my wife's computer, but that wouldn't be sporting 🙂
diff --git a/content/Blog/oooh-i-always-wanted-to-build-one-of-those.md b/content/Blog/oooh-i-always-wanted-to-build-one-of-those.md
index 39a67105..e9fb5b45 100644
--- a/content/Blog/oooh-i-always-wanted-to-build-one-of-those.md
+++ b/content/Blog/oooh-i-always-wanted-to-build-one-of-those.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2004-02-13T21:24:00+00:00
-title: Oooh, I always wanted to build one of those…
+title: Oooh, I always wanted to build one of those...
type: posts
---
Actually, I've always wanted to mimic something simpler, just the error message and a more button to see the stack trace... but this component would be wonderful during a beta release, or as something that can be toggled on by the troubleshooting developer...
diff --git a/content/Blog/outlook-programming-article-now-available.md b/content/Blog/outlook-programming-article-now-available.md
index 36692acd..3db88341 100644
--- a/content/Blog/outlook-programming-article-now-available.md
+++ b/content/Blog/outlook-programming-article-now-available.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2004-06-08T00:21:00+00:00
-title: Outlook programming article now available…
+title: Outlook programming article now available...
type: posts
---
It has been up for a few days now, but in case you haven't found it yet... Andrew Troelsen has written a good article on programming Outlook with C#, covering using the object model and building Add-ins...
diff --git a/content/Blog/outlook-web-access-team-looking-for-developers.md b/content/Blog/outlook-web-access-team-looking-for-developers.md
index 9ca5a576..f31f15f2 100644
--- a/content/Blog/outlook-web-access-team-looking-for-developers.md
+++ b/content/Blog/outlook-web-access-team-looking-for-developers.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2005-01-31T19:33:00+00:00
-title: Outlook Web Access team looking for developers…
+title: Outlook Web Access team looking for developers...
type: posts
---
> [The Outlook Web Access team is looking for web developers](http://weblogs.asp.net/ksharkey/archive/2005/01/31/363962.aspx)
diff --git a/content/Blog/overlaying-html-over-silverlight.md b/content/Blog/overlaying-html-over-silverlight.md
index 79290c6b..d039c6c7 100644
--- a/content/Blog/overlaying-html-over-silverlight.md
+++ b/content/Blog/overlaying-html-over-silverlight.md
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ We ran into a bit of an issue though, in that our floating HTML was sitting **un
-That just wouldn't do, so I asked [Adam Kinney](www.adamkinney.com) (Silverlight Evangelist and former dev on the C9/C10 team) what to do. He pointed me to the ‘isWindowless' property of the Silverlight object and that info, combined with [this KB article about Windowless controls](http://support.microsoft.com/kb/177378), was enough for me to figure out what to do.
+That just wouldn't do, so I asked [Adam Kinney](www.adamkinney.com) (Silverlight Evangelist and former dev on the C9/C10 team) what to do. He pointed me to the 'isWindowless' property of the Silverlight object and that info, combined with [this KB article about Windowless controls](http://support.microsoft.com/kb/177378), was enough for me to figure out what to do.
diff --git a/content/Blog/part-6-of-scott-mitchells-series-on-data-structures-is-now-live.md b/content/Blog/part-6-of-scott-mitchells-series-on-data-structures-is-now-live.md
index 6be2b2f4..4e9d49a6 100644
--- a/content/Blog/part-6-of-scott-mitchells-series-on-data-structures-is-now-live.md
+++ b/content/Blog/part-6-of-scott-mitchells-series-on-data-structures-is-now-live.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2004-04-08T01:11:00+00:00
-title: Part 6 of Scott Mitchell’s series on Data Structures is now live…
+title: Part 6 of Scott Mitchell's series on Data Structures is now live...
type: posts
---
Check it out [here](http://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dv_vstechart/html/datastructures_guide6.asp)
diff --git a/content/Blog/paul-is-looking-for-a-list-of-the-best-vb-bloggers.md b/content/Blog/paul-is-looking-for-a-list-of-the-best-vb-bloggers.md
index 81c1a995..2487747b 100644
--- a/content/Blog/paul-is-looking-for-a-list-of-the-best-vb-bloggers.md
+++ b/content/Blog/paul-is-looking-for-a-list-of-the-best-vb-bloggers.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2004-06-03T12:17:00+00:00
-title: Paul is looking for a list of the ‘best’ VB Bloggers…
+title: Paul is looking for a list of the 'best' VB Bloggers...
type: posts
---
> **[Who are the best VB bloggers?](http://www.panopticoncentral.net/archive/2004/06/01/1123.aspx){#viewpost.ascx_TitleUrl}
diff --git a/content/Blog/paul-vick-discusses-the-question-that-just-wont-go-away-vb-or-c.md b/content/Blog/paul-vick-discusses-the-question-that-just-wont-go-away-vb-or-c.md
index a6bce695..511c9794 100644
--- a/content/Blog/paul-vick-discusses-the-question-that-just-wont-go-away-vb-or-c.md
+++ b/content/Blog/paul-vick-discusses-the-question-that-just-wont-go-away-vb-or-c.md
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
---
date: 2004-06-01T01:56:00+00:00
-title: Paul Vick discusses the question that just won’t go away… VB or C#?
+title: Paul Vick discusses the question that just won't go away... VB or C#?
type: posts
---
I get this question a lot, and I explain many of the same things that Paul goes through in this post, so I'd love it if more people would read this material:
-But I couldn't easily replicate those little dividers (for Options, Description, Preview), so I created a "DividerLabel" with about 10 minutes of VB.NET code (2003)...
+But I couldn't easily replicate those little dividers (for Options, Description, Preview), so I created a "DividerLabel" with about 10 minutes of VB.NET code (2003)...
diff --git a/content/Blog/ran-into-my-first-blog-hosting-bug-that-was-fast.md b/content/Blog/ran-into-my-first-blog-hosting-bug-that-was-fast.md
index bf2e2a74..53758fb3 100644
--- a/content/Blog/ran-into-my-first-blog-hosting-bug-that-was-fast.md
+++ b/content/Blog/ran-into-my-first-blog-hosting-bug-that-was-fast.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2004-08-25T21:38:00+00:00
-title: Ran into my first blog hosting bug… that was fast…
+title: Ran into my first blog hosting bug... that was fast...
type: posts
---
Within a few hours of being up, I ran into [this issue.](http://odetocode.com/Blogs/scott/archive/2004/05/26/259.aspx).. odd, since it doesn't appear to be affecting very many folks...
diff --git a/content/Blog/ran-my-first-5k-race-today.md b/content/Blog/ran-my-first-5k-race-today.md
index 1965e1d4..96dc9de1 100644
--- a/content/Blog/ran-my-first-5k-race-today.md
+++ b/content/Blog/ran-my-first-5k-race-today.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2007-02-12T10:10:00+00:00
-title: Ran my first 5K race today…
+title: Ran my first 5K race today...
type: posts
---
Back in the summer I jumped back into fitness by signing up for the 20/20 program at the Pro Club. 20/20 is a serious weight loss program that involves both diet change (I'd characterize it as South Beach in style) and five workouts a week (including three with a personal trainer). Well, it has been quite successful so far, bringing my weight down from around 189 to about 160 over the past 5 months, and it has had the side affect of getting me back into running.
@@ -11,6 +11,6 @@ It was quite an experience for me, I had never run a race like this before and I
[
](http://www.flickr.com/photos/msteechur/386871224/)
-It was amazingly organized, considering, and the start went really smooth (as far as I know... first time doing this), it only took about 30 seconds after the ‘gun' to cross the actual start line... not bad, considering how many people were in front of me.
+It was amazingly organized, considering, and the start went really smooth (as far as I know... first time doing this), it only took about 30 seconds after the 'gun' to cross the actual start line... not bad, considering how many people were in front of me.
-My finish time was [27:45](http://onlineraceresults.com/race/view_race.php?race_id=4729&submit_action=select_result&re_NO=512), which was a bit disappointing, I had expected the competition would kick my speed up so that I could at least match the time I've been getting on the treadmill lately (I ran 3 miles in around 26 minutes a few days before), but I ended up running a very consistent nine minute mile (8:56) on each of the three miles. I think the real problem was that I didn't end up doing much of a final kick, I really should have jumped my speed up for that last mile. Overall though, I did run for the full 5K, I set a time close to what I expected, and now I have a ‘baseline' to compare against for the next one.
+My finish time was [27:45](http://onlineraceresults.com/race/view_race.php?race_id=4729&submit_action=select_result&re_NO=512), which was a bit disappointing, I had expected the competition would kick my speed up so that I could at least match the time I've been getting on the treadmill lately (I ran 3 miles in around 26 minutes a few days before), but I ended up running a very consistent nine minute mile (8:56) on each of the three miles. I think the real problem was that I didn't end up doing much of a final kick, I really should have jumped my speed up for that last mile. Overall though, I did run for the full 5K, I set a time close to what I expected, and now I have a 'baseline' to compare against for the next one.
diff --git a/content/Blog/random-blog-thought.md b/content/Blog/random-blog-thought.md
index 851a86b9..2e0f8ee2 100644
--- a/content/Blog/random-blog-thought.md
+++ b/content/Blog/random-blog-thought.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2003-07-30T03:31:00+00:00
-title: Random Blog thought…
+title: Random Blog thought...
type: posts
---
What would you folks think if I wrote one of my MSDN articles in a serial fashion into my blog? Basically just posted each section as I wrote it? I'm considering doing this for my next Coding 4 Fun article, but before I flood your aggregator with piles of text I thought I'd look for some feedback...
diff --git a/content/Blog/reading-an-image-from-the-web.md b/content/Blog/reading-an-image-from-the-web.md
index 839a2343..e88ff360 100644
--- a/content/Blog/reading-an-image-from-the-web.md
+++ b/content/Blog/reading-an-image-from-the-web.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2003-11-17T10:57:00+00:00
-title: Reading An Image from the web…
+title: Reading An Image from the web...
type: posts
---
Nothing amazingly difficult about this task, but it was [an interesting GotDotNet question posted today](http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/MessageBoard/Thread.aspx?id=164268&Page=1#164357) so I thought I would answer it here;
diff --git a/content/Blog/reading-blogs.md b/content/Blog/reading-blogs.md
index f6c76f84..263fd33c 100644
--- a/content/Blog/reading-blogs.md
+++ b/content/Blog/reading-blogs.md
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
---
date: 2003-10-28T22:01:00+00:00
-title: Reading Blogs…
+title: Reading Blogs...
type: posts
---
-I've been catching up on a few blogs, now that I've **finally** managed to get connected 🙂 ...
+I've been catching up on a few blogs, now that I've **finally** managed to get connected 🙂 ...
and I just have one comment (meant in the spirit of helpfulness only) ... It is "ClickOnce" not "OneClick"
diff --git a/content/Blog/real-time-syntax-highlighting-for-html.md b/content/Blog/real-time-syntax-highlighting-for-html.md
index 06e457ea..3cc38398 100644
--- a/content/Blog/real-time-syntax-highlighting-for-html.md
+++ b/content/Blog/real-time-syntax-highlighting-for-html.md
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
---
date: 2004-04-07T20:22:00+00:00
-title: Real-Time Syntax highlighting for HTML…
+title: Real-Time Syntax highlighting for HTML...
type: posts
---
Bah... I've been digging around the web for a couple of days now, and I'm getting frustrated, so I thought I would share my pain with you
Here's the scenario (and see if you can spot my key mistake here, it will be pretty obvious to most developers who have worked with customers before);
-In a system I've written, the user's have the ability to enter HTML formatted text into various areas of the application. People liked that... they could **bold** pieces of text, insert hyperlinks etc... but it was just plain-text entry (just multi-line textboxes, baby!).... well, eventually (as you might have expected) people wanted a ‘richer' HTML editing experience. First pass, I gave them (through the coding genius of Kent Sharkey) the ability to launch their HTML editor of choice (whatever is registered on their machine to edit HTML), giving them all the features of Front Page or VS.NET to edit their HTML snippets. Still, the users wanted richer edting **right in the application**... fine, second pass I gave them [Nikhil's HTML design time editor](http://www.nikhilk.net/Entry.aspx?id=11)... but **they** want HTML editing, not design-time.... so here I am.... heading down the path of writing Front Page's HTML editor...
+In a system I've written, the user's have the ability to enter HTML formatted text into various areas of the application. People liked that... they could **bold** pieces of text, insert hyperlinks etc... but it was just plain-text entry (just multi-line textboxes, baby!).... well, eventually (as you might have expected) people wanted a 'richer' HTML editing experience. First pass, I gave them (through the coding genius of Kent Sharkey) the ability to launch their HTML editor of choice (whatever is registered on their machine to edit HTML), giving them all the features of Front Page or VS.NET to edit their HTML snippets. Still, the users wanted richer edting **right in the application**... fine, second pass I gave them [Nikhil's HTML design time editor](http://www.nikhilk.net/Entry.aspx?id=11)... but **they** want HTML editing, not design-time.... so here I am.... heading down the path of writing Front Page's HTML editor...
I'm hoping to just give them basic syntax highlighting (real-time) like w.bloggar does would be enough to me... and I'm currently investigating an article I found on Code Project ([which is available here](http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/RTBClass.asp))... and [a really full-featured 3rd party control from Actipro](http://www.actiprosoftware.com/Products/DotNet/SyntaxEditor/Default.aspx)... but I'm leaning to the Code Project sample more, because I get to play with the code and I don't have to ask my boss for $$ for a new control 🙂
diff --git a/content/Blog/received-my-first-book-from-zooba-com-today.md b/content/Blog/received-my-first-book-from-zooba-com-today.md
index 7ee79dc7..050e80f2 100644
--- a/content/Blog/received-my-first-book-from-zooba-com-today.md
+++ b/content/Blog/received-my-first-book-from-zooba-com-today.md
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
---
date: 2005-02-25T19:46:00+00:00
-title: Received my first book from Zooba.com today…
+title: Received my first book from Zooba.com today...
type: posts
---
-If you sign up for one of the sites created by Gratis ([free flat screens](http://www.FreeFlatScreens.com/?r=13882371), [free ipods](http://www.freeiPods.com/?r=14756414), [free handbags](http://www.FreeHandbags.com/?r=14980492), etc...) then one of the available offers is Zooba.com, and I have to say it is one of the best offers I've tried. Basically, if you are someone who likes to read then you probably won't mind the ‘requirement' to complete this offer. You sign up for a membership with Zooba, which costs around $10 a month and for that fee you get one hardcover book each month with no shipping costs. I'm not positive, but it seems to me that $10 is a good price for a hardcover book, and not even all that bad if you are used to paperbacks. I filled my queue on their site with 5 books that I liked, but my understanding is that you can cancel after only two book purchases, so the only real question is whether or not there are at least 2 books available through their site that you want to get anyway...
+If you sign up for one of the sites created by Gratis ([free flat screens](http://www.FreeFlatScreens.com/?r=13882371), [free ipods](http://www.freeiPods.com/?r=14756414), [free handbags](http://www.FreeHandbags.com/?r=14980492), etc...) then one of the available offers is Zooba.com, and I have to say it is one of the best offers I've tried. Basically, if you are someone who likes to read then you probably won't mind the 'requirement' to complete this offer. You sign up for a membership with Zooba, which costs around $10 a month and for that fee you get one hardcover book each month with no shipping costs. I'm not positive, but it seems to me that $10 is a good price for a hardcover book, and not even all that bad if you are used to paperbacks. I filled my queue on their site with 5 books that I liked, but my understanding is that you can cancel after only two book purchases, so the only real question is whether or not there are at least 2 books available through their site that you want to get anyway...
The book I received, by the way, was **The Last Light of the Sun** by one of my favorite authors: [Guy Gavriel Kay](http://www.brightweavings.com/). If you haven't read any of his other books, I would definitely recommend **Tigana**, **The Fionavar Tapestry** (3 books) and all the rest of his writings 🙂
diff --git a/content/Blog/reducing-the-size-of-my-pages.md b/content/Blog/reducing-the-size-of-my-pages.md
index ae301eed..77404166 100644
--- a/content/Blog/reducing-the-size-of-my-pages.md
+++ b/content/Blog/reducing-the-size-of-my-pages.md
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
---
date: 2004-09-09T07:33:00+00:00
-title: Reducing the size of my pages….
+title: Reducing the size of my pages....
type: posts
---
I was staring at my bandwidth usage tonight and it is quite high.... and thanks to this cool SVG based stats system that easerve provides, I can drill down and figure out which pages are causing the bulk of that traffic... well, the biggest offenders for # of hits were the aggBugs that .Text includes (because my blog posts, including the aggbugs, are shown on MSDN, and therefore generate 3 aggBug requests for **every single view of the [Visual Basic](http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic) or [C# Developer Center](http://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp) pages**), but the biggest use of bandwidth was by far the mainfeed.aspx.... the main RSS feed for the site...
-I checked out that feed, and it included 35 items... a value that I couldn't seem to change through any of the config options... I tracked it down to a stored proc (DNW_GetRecentPosts if you are interested) that had a ‘Top 35' option specified... so I knocked that way down (possibly too far, we'll see) to 5... which should greatly reduce the bandwidth used by that page
+I checked out that feed, and it included 35 items... a value that I couldn't seem to change through any of the config options... I tracked it down to a stored proc (DNW_GetRecentPosts if you are interested) that had a 'Top 35' option specified... so I knocked that way down (possibly too far, we'll see) to 5... which should greatly reduce the bandwidth used by that page
-Next up was those pesky aggBugs... I turned them off for a few days, but I wanted a longer term solution, one where I wouldn't get aggBug hits when the feed was displayed on MSDN, but I would for ‘normal' aggregator use.... so I modified the main and category based RSS handlers to skip adding the aggBugs if the RSS request had an additional param of "aggBug=False" .... normal users won't have that, but I can control the URL being pulled onto MSDN so I'll make sure it includes this little param... We'll see how that work out over the next week or so...
+Next up was those pesky aggBugs... I turned them off for a few days, but I wanted a longer term solution, one where I wouldn't get aggBug hits when the feed was displayed on MSDN, but I would for 'normal' aggregator use.... so I modified the main and category based RSS handlers to skip adding the aggBugs if the RSS request had an additional param of "aggBug=False" .... normal users won't have that, but I can control the URL being pulled onto MSDN so I'll make sure it includes this little param... We'll see how that work out over the next week or so...
-Its funny, I've worked on quite a few web systems, but they were all very ‘transaction' focused and most of our performance optimization was focused around avoiding trips to the database and execution of code. Basically we ended up creating a variety of caching systems (ASP.NET's caching options would have been wonderful to have back then), but it was rare for me to spend much time on the bandwidth side of the equation, especially since many of these systems were Intranet applications (still potentially 1000s of users inside a company, but speed of page execution was all that mattered, size of payload or bandwidth didn't matter much on a LAN). Looking at bandwidth usage is an interesting change....
+Its funny, I've worked on quite a few web systems, but they were all very 'transaction' focused and most of our performance optimization was focused around avoiding trips to the database and execution of code. Basically we ended up creating a variety of caching systems (ASP.NET's caching options would have been wonderful to have back then), but it was rare for me to spend much time on the bandwidth side of the equation, especially since many of these systems were Intranet applications (still potentially 1000s of users inside a company, but speed of page execution was all that mattered, size of payload or bandwidth didn't matter much on a LAN). Looking at bandwidth usage is an interesting change....
diff --git a/content/Blog/releasing-binaries-for-my-samples.md b/content/Blog/releasing-binaries-for-my-samples.md
index da8b36f1..ec1d4d20 100644
--- a/content/Blog/releasing-binaries-for-my-samples.md
+++ b/content/Blog/releasing-binaries-for-my-samples.md
@@ -8,5 +8,5 @@ Since starting my [column](http://msdn.microsoft.com/columns/codefun.asp), I've
I never really considered that possibility, and in some cases I didn't even write the code with that in mind, but now I'm wondering if I should at least provide a built install file in with the downloadable code sample for non-programmers... weird thought. Whatever I do, I can't support people who use the sample without compiling it themselves... the code sample is merely a way to show some interesting concept(s), I try to make the applications interesting but they certainly aren't the point.
/SC.GIF&client=kclsp&type=hwk)
My wife commented tonight that my son (4) was going on at length about which planet was where in the solar system and how if you lived right next to the sun it would be too hot to live, etc... and suggested we get him some books on the planets from the library. This got me to thinking about a book that I used to spend hours and hours reading, I probably read it through cover-to-cover over a hundred times over the years... and a few searches later I found the title and author, Roy A. Gallant, "[Our Universe](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0870443569/duncanmackenz-20)"... but it wasn't until I found a picture of the book's cover that I was sure it was the same one.
-I probably spent most of my reading time in all my various ‘youth fiction', like Piers Anthony's [Xanth](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0345347536/duncanmackenz-20) series, but the runner up would be the World Book encyclopedia set my parents had bought... it was the place I learned all about [the Maginot Line](http://europeanhistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa070601a.htm), for example... and various picture-filled books like this one and others on World War II aircraft, etc... so many things to look at and to fill your head with thoughts.
+I probably spent most of my reading time in all my various 'youth fiction', like Piers Anthony's [Xanth](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0345347536/duncanmackenz-20) series, but the runner up would be the World Book encyclopedia set my parents had bought... it was the place I learned all about [the Maginot Line](http://europeanhistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa070601a.htm), for example... and various picture-filled books like this one and others on World War II aircraft, etc... so many things to look at and to fill your head with thoughts.
Of course, I'm a geek, so we'll have Encarta around, but I just don't think you can beat the enjoyment of a full-color oversized book to dig into a topic
diff --git a/content/Blog/removing-words-formatting-from-text-before-pasting-into-text-or-other-apps.md b/content/Blog/removing-words-formatting-from-text-before-pasting-into-text-or-other-apps.md
index 9b77ecd4..5f778a4b 100644
--- a/content/Blog/removing-words-formatting-from-text-before-pasting-into-text-or-other-apps.md
+++ b/content/Blog/removing-words-formatting-from-text-before-pasting-into-text-or-other-apps.md
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
---
date: 2004-08-12T10:59:00+00:00
-title: Removing Word’s Formatting from text before pasting into .Text or other apps…
+title: Removing Word's Formatting from text before pasting into .Text or other apps...
type: posts
---
-The age-old question of ‘how do I avoid putting funky Office HTML into my blog postings' came up on an internal email list today, and one of the answers was a pointer to [http://stevemiller.net/PureText/](http://stevemiller.net/PureText/), which I had never heard of... but it looks cool!
+The age-old question of 'how do I avoid putting funky Office HTML into my blog postings' came up on an internal email list today, and one of the answers was a pointer to [http://stevemiller.net/PureText/](http://stevemiller.net/PureText/), which I had never heard of... but it looks cool!
> _"Have you ever copied some text from a web page, a word document, help, etc., and wanted to paste it as simple text into another application without getting all the formatting from the original source? PureText makes this simple. Just copy/cut whatever you want to the clipboard, click on the PureText tray icon, and then paste to any application. Better yet, you can configure a Hot-Key to convert and paste the text for you. The pasted text will be pure and free from all formatting."_
diff --git a/content/Blog/renting-vs-buying.md b/content/Blog/renting-vs-buying.md
index fa0494bc..2efc7587 100644
--- a/content/Blog/renting-vs-buying.md
+++ b/content/Blog/renting-vs-buying.md
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ date: 2007-04-24T19:24:00+00:00
title: Renting vs. Buying
type: posts
---
-I own a lot of Xbox and Xbox 360 games... some good, some bad... but the hit/miss ratio is much better for all my 360 games, mostly because of game renting. Starting around the time the 360 launched, I signed up for Gamefly and I've alternated between the two and three game plans. It is definitely a good deal for me, I usually only rent my second tier list of games, ones that I think I'll like but I'm not already positive I'll buy. Sometimes I even rent games that I'm pretty sure I'll never ever buy, just because I want to try them out. I suppose you could do the same with Blockbuster or some other store, but I'm big into these ‘send to my house' programs (like Netflix.... did you know they have [RSS that shows you what movies I currently have at home](http://rss.netflix.com/AtHomeRSS?id=P1919270839112012058970361825810643)?). At one point, right after launch, I added every 360 game to the list, which lead to checking out some games I would never have purchased (like Rumble Roses!). I find it especially useful for kids games, because the quality can really vary on those, and sometimes Xbox Live demos aren't really enough for me to decide if I like a game or not.
+I own a lot of Xbox and Xbox 360 games... some good, some bad... but the hit/miss ratio is much better for all my 360 games, mostly because of game renting. Starting around the time the 360 launched, I signed up for Gamefly and I've alternated between the two and three game plans. It is definitely a good deal for me, I usually only rent my second tier list of games, ones that I think I'll like but I'm not already positive I'll buy. Sometimes I even rent games that I'm pretty sure I'll never ever buy, just because I want to try them out. I suppose you could do the same with Blockbuster or some other store, but I'm big into these 'send to my house' programs (like Netflix.... did you know they have [RSS that shows you what movies I currently have at home](http://rss.netflix.com/AtHomeRSS?id=P1919270839112012058970361825810643)?). At one point, right after launch, I added every 360 game to the list, which lead to checking out some games I would never have purchased (like Rumble Roses!). I find it especially useful for kids games, because the quality can really vary on those, and sometimes Xbox Live demos aren't really enough for me to decide if I like a game or not.
Occasionally I've even gone ahead and purchased the game through Gamefly, which is usually a pretty good price... you keep the game you have so you already know that it isn't scratched up and that it is working well in your 360 (and if it isn't working well, don't buy that one!). Overall, it is my way of playing more games, without paying $60 bucks for each one and possibly ending up with a copy of Over G Fighters on my shelf.
-Interested in checking it out yourself (they do Wii, Xbox 1 and PS2/3 games too)? Here's [my ‘sign up a friend link'](http://friends.GameFly.com/r/44a16bec43c7102a919d) and here is [one without any additional stuff on it](http://www.gamefly.com/)... use whichever one you'd prefer 🙂
+Interested in checking it out yourself (they do Wii, Xbox 1 and PS2/3 games too)? Here's [my 'sign up a friend link'](http://friends.GameFly.com/r/44a16bec43c7102a919d) and here is [one without any additional stuff on it](http://www.gamefly.com/)... use whichever one you'd prefer 🙂
diff --git a/content/Blog/replaced-the-poll-component-with-my-new-and-improved-one.md b/content/Blog/replaced-the-poll-component-with-my-new-and-improved-one.md
index df100a91..e08a0356 100644
--- a/content/Blog/replaced-the-poll-component-with-my-new-and-improved-one.md
+++ b/content/Blog/replaced-the-poll-component-with-my-new-and-improved-one.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2004-06-17T22:10:00+00:00
-title: Replaced the Poll Component with my ‘new and improved’ one…
+title: Replaced the Poll Component with my 'new and improved' one...
type: posts
---
Well, maybe not improved, but certainly more complicated... I setup [my new data model](http://weblogs.asp.net/duncanma/archive/2004/06/15/156543.aspx), built a new voting component in Visual Basic, and put it up at 
](http://www.duncanmackenzie.net/images/FeedWriter.png" rel="lightbox[810]" title="RSS feed authoring for those without blog software or an enjoyment of typing angle brackets)
-This app has been developed **without** the general user in mind, MSDN/TechNet were the targets and because of that there are some fields in this UI that are only relevant to the needs of those groups. For example, the list of attributes you can see on the lower-right is specific to the needs of MSDN and TechNet, who need to markup the feed entries with the appropriate choices. The "Type" and "HeadlineImage" fields are also specific to MSDN feeds, I'm planning to adapt it to work with ‘standard' RSS 2.0 items and the category element to make it more general purpose, but for now I thought I'd show you the version I already have running.
+This app has been developed **without** the general user in mind, MSDN/TechNet were the targets and because of that there are some fields in this UI that are only relevant to the needs of those groups. For example, the list of attributes you can see on the lower-right is specific to the needs of MSDN and TechNet, who need to markup the feed entries with the appropriate choices. The "Type" and "HeadlineImage" fields are also specific to MSDN feeds, I'm planning to adapt it to work with 'standard' RSS 2.0 items and the category element to make it more general purpose, but for now I thought I'd show you the version I already have running.
In a rather backwards fashion, I'm going to finish up this as a sample and write the article, now that I've finished the actual practical version of the same system... but it will all work out in the end.
diff --git a/content/Blog/running-a-new-poll-on-databases.md b/content/Blog/running-a-new-poll-on-databases.md
index 9f84d428..bcbe517b 100644
--- a/content/Blog/running-a-new-poll-on-databases.md
+++ b/content/Blog/running-a-new-poll-on-databases.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2004-09-24T15:37:00+00:00
-title: Running a new poll on databases…
+title: Running a new poll on databases...
type: posts
---
I've put up a new poll on my site:
diff --git a/content/Blog/saved-up-my-pennies.md b/content/Blog/saved-up-my-pennies.md
index afe807ae..4146a0fb 100644
--- a/content/Blog/saved-up-my-pennies.md
+++ b/content/Blog/saved-up-my-pennies.md
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
---
date: 2005-10-12T05:08:00+00:00
-title: Saved up my pennies…
+title: Saved up my pennies...
type: posts
---
-
-I've been putting money aside for a few months now, to save up for an Xbox 360, and now I have sold my media center extender (the HP one), I've hit the magical number to be able to afford the ‘premium' edition. I can't afford any of the crazy bundles that are available for pre-order though, so I guess I'll be waiting for a bit to pick one up after the release on November 22nd...
+
+I've been putting money aside for a few months now, to save up for an Xbox 360, and now I have sold my media center extender (the HP one), I've hit the magical number to be able to afford the 'premium' edition. I can't afford any of the crazy bundles that are available for pre-order though, so I guess I'll be waiting for a bit to pick one up after the release on November 22nd...
What about you folks? Have you pre-ordered, did you manage to find a place that would let you pre-order just a console (is that so crazy?) ?
diff --git a/content/Blog/scoble-finally-gets-a-360.md b/content/Blog/scoble-finally-gets-a-360.md
index da81b02b..f7125827 100644
--- a/content/Blog/scoble-finally-gets-a-360.md
+++ b/content/Blog/scoble-finally-gets-a-360.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2006-04-05T18:10:00+00:00
-title: Scoble finally gets a 360…
+title: Scoble finally gets a 360...
type: posts
---
[Seems you can actually buy them now](http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/2006/04/04/xboxs-still-in-high-demand/), maybe I should send him a book?
diff --git a/content/Blog/scott-mitchells-data-structure-article-is-finally-up.md b/content/Blog/scott-mitchells-data-structure-article-is-finally-up.md
index 4ad22d90..1ecf93a7 100644
--- a/content/Blog/scott-mitchells-data-structure-article-is-finally-up.md
+++ b/content/Blog/scott-mitchells-data-structure-article-is-finally-up.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2003-11-18T23:43:00+00:00
-title: Scott Mitchell’s Data Structure Article is finally up…
+title: Scott Mitchell's Data Structure Article is finally up...
type: posts
---
Ages ago, [Scott Mitchell](http://scottonwriting.net/sowblog/) wrote the 1st of 6 articles on Data Structures in C#... and now it is finally up (through no fault of Scott's)
diff --git a/content/Blog/scott-nonnenberg-on-debugger-visualizers-in-vs-2005.md b/content/Blog/scott-nonnenberg-on-debugger-visualizers-in-vs-2005.md
index 2f2d358c..87cbde71 100644
--- a/content/Blog/scott-nonnenberg-on-debugger-visualizers-in-vs-2005.md
+++ b/content/Blog/scott-nonnenberg-on-debugger-visualizers-in-vs-2005.md
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ With code samples and screenshots based on the recent Community drop of Whidbey
- _... Visualizers allow for advanced, customized viewing of data while debugging. Today's data windows have their limitations; text-only, hierarchical, spatially constrained – not the best for viewing an image, for example. Visualizers allow you to create completely custom views using WinForms to best show the data within any managed object. Yes, unfortunately this feature will only available for the managed world. ..._
+ _... Visualizers allow for advanced, customized viewing of data while debugging. Today's data windows have their limitations; text-only, hierarchical, spatially constrained – not the best for viewing an image, for example. Visualizers allow you to create completely custom views using WinForms to best show the data within any managed object. Yes, unfortunately this feature will only available for the managed world. ..._
diff --git a/content/Blog/scott-swigart-responds-to-richard-grimes.md b/content/Blog/scott-swigart-responds-to-richard-grimes.md
index 448473f0..a8c17a27 100644
--- a/content/Blog/scott-swigart-responds-to-richard-grimes.md
+++ b/content/Blog/scott-swigart-responds-to-richard-grimes.md
@@ -5,9 +5,9 @@ type: posts
---
Richard Grimes posted [some fairly negative thoughts](http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=9211/ddj050201dnn/) around .NET and VB.NET specifically, comments that Scott decided to reply to with [his own post](http://swigartconsulting.blogs.com/tech_blender/2005/02/grumpy_grimes.html).
-I have to say that Richard's comments about C# vs. VB.NET are something that I hear all the time, that it is easy for a VB6 developer to pick up C#, and (just like Scott says) that just isn't true at all. To pick just one example, case-sensitivity is a language ‘feature' that leads to confusion and errors, and trying to work in that environment after growing up inside Visual Basic is a lot harder than people make it seem. In the end, a VB6 developer will be productive faster with VB.NET. Could they learn C# eventually? Sure, why not... but why should they when they can build wonderful .NET applications without having to learn a completely new language?
+I have to say that Richard's comments about C# vs. VB.NET are something that I hear all the time, that it is easy for a VB6 developer to pick up C#, and (just like Scott says) that just isn't true at all. To pick just one example, case-sensitivity is a language 'feature' that leads to confusion and errors, and trying to work in that environment after growing up inside Visual Basic is a lot harder than people make it seem. In the end, a VB6 developer will be productive faster with VB.NET. Could they learn C# eventually? Sure, why not... but why should they when they can build wonderful .NET applications without having to learn a completely new language?
-Metaphors are not always useful, but the same one comes to mind every time someone tells me that VB developers should just ‘pick up' C#. Imagine if you will, an American has to start a new job and has a choice of two languages to work in... British English or German. Now, British English is not exactly the language they've grown up with, so since they'll have to learn a bunch of new concepts anyway (signing-off on emails with "Cheers", etc.) they might as well move to German. Richard [says](http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=9211/ddj050201dnn/);
+Metaphors are not always useful, but the same one comes to mind every time someone tells me that VB developers should just 'pick up' C#. Imagine if you will, an American has to start a new job and has a choice of two languages to work in... British English or German. Now, British English is not exactly the language they've grown up with, so since they'll have to learn a bunch of new concepts anyway (signing-off on emails with "Cheers", etc.) they might as well move to German. Richard [says](http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=9211/ddj050201dnn/);
> "I've said, VB.NET is not VB, and since a developer would have to learn principles of OOP and .NET principles like threading, exceptions, and delegates, the developer may as well learn a new language."
diff --git a/content/Blog/seeing-data-by-rebecca-riordan.md b/content/Blog/seeing-data-by-rebecca-riordan.md
index ee0d1bb8..815ead68 100644
--- a/content/Blog/seeing-data-by-rebecca-riordan.md
+++ b/content/Blog/seeing-data-by-rebecca-riordan.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2004-09-07T05:25:00+00:00
-title: Seeing Data by Rebecca Riordan…
+title: Seeing Data by Rebecca Riordan...
type: posts
---
[Shawn](http://weblogs.asp.net/shawnmor/archive/2004/09/06/226224.aspx), my boss, recommends [this AW book by Rebecca Riordan](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0321205618/duncanmackenz-20?creative=125581&camp=2321&link_code=as1), which is one of the few .NET books I've found time to read lately, and I have to agree... I have doubts on whether or not it will sell as many copies as it should, as people seem to cluster around very focused books even when **this book is exactly what they need**, but it certainly deserves to be successful.
@@ -8,5 +8,5 @@ type: posts
Most Visual Basic development, both historically and present day, is building Forms that run against databases (that probably describes most development across all languages, but I believe it is an even higher percentage for VB)... and this book aims directly at that topic... covering both Windows Forms and ADO.NET, while teaching you how to **design and build** a good user interface, instead of just focusing on the mechanics of the .NET classes like most books do.
](http://www.xbox.com/en-US/community/personality/xboxdad/2007/0522-shrek3.htm)
diff --git a/content/Blog/silverlight-based-sidebar-gadget-showing-your-xbox-friends.md b/content/Blog/silverlight-based-sidebar-gadget-showing-your-xbox-friends.md
index 9b36292e..4a1a2f50 100644
--- a/content/Blog/silverlight-based-sidebar-gadget-showing-your-xbox-friends.md
+++ b/content/Blog/silverlight-based-sidebar-gadget-showing-your-xbox-friends.md
@@ -7,4 +7,4 @@ Awesome gadget from [Adam Kinney](http://www.adamkinney.com/), great information
[
](http://adamkinney.com/blog/272/default.aspx)
-[Xbox Friends Watch – Get the Gadget!](http://adamkinney.com/blog/272/default.aspx)
+[Xbox Friends Watch – Get the Gadget!](http://adamkinney.com/blog/272/default.aspx)
diff --git a/content/Blog/so-im-here-now-what.md b/content/Blog/so-im-here-now-what.md
index f3272dd3..29d41932 100644
--- a/content/Blog/so-im-here-now-what.md
+++ b/content/Blog/so-im-here-now-what.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2003-06-01T08:57:00+00:00
-title: So I’m here, now what?
+title: So I'm here, now what?
type: posts
---
I thought I had better write my first TechEd related post, now that I've joined techedbloggers.net, and especially since I've arrived in Dallas.
diff --git a/content/Blog/so-many-posts-in-so-little-time.md b/content/Blog/so-many-posts-in-so-little-time.md
index 1bd7408c..a7a78a23 100644
--- a/content/Blog/so-many-posts-in-so-little-time.md
+++ b/content/Blog/so-many-posts-in-so-little-time.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2004-05-17T09:53:00+00:00
-title: So many posts in so little time…
+title: So many posts in so little time...
type: posts
---
[Cyrus](http://blogs.msdn.com/cyrusn) (a developer with the C# IDE team) has obviously needed to blog for awhile, and when he finally did, he had a lot of material ready to go. Check out [his 28 posts from the last 2 days](http://blogs.msdn.com/cyrusn/archive/2004/05.aspx)!
diff --git a/content/Blog/solutions-at-a-glance-great-for-all-net-developers-interested-in-security.md b/content/Blog/solutions-at-a-glance-great-for-all-net-developers-interested-in-security.md
index cbb87ebb..f4336755 100644
--- a/content/Blog/solutions-at-a-glance-great-for-all-net-developers-interested-in-security.md
+++ b/content/Blog/solutions-at-a-glance-great-for-all-net-developers-interested-in-security.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2004-07-27T02:22:00+00:00
-title: Solutions at a Glance… great for all .NET developers interested in security…
+title: Solutions at a Glance... great for all .NET developers interested in security...
type: posts
---
I was just talking with J.D. Meier ([from PAG](http://www.microsoft.com/practices)) about [the Improving Application Security](http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnnetsec/html/ThreatCounter.asp) book and he pointed out a great page to me... the "[Solutions At A Glance](http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnnetsec/html/THCMGlance.asp)" list... this page lists a ton of very frequently asked questions around .NET security and provides links deep into all that great PAG security info.
diff --git a/content/Blog/some-faqs-are-more-fa-than-others.md b/content/Blog/some-faqs-are-more-fa-than-others.md
index b88f6663..668654be 100644
--- a/content/Blog/some-faqs-are-more-fa-than-others.md
+++ b/content/Blog/some-faqs-are-more-fa-than-others.md
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
---
date: 2004-05-06T19:47:00+00:00
-title: Some FAQs are more FA than others….
+title: Some FAQs are more FA than others....
type: posts
---
-[Joe Mayo](http://www.csharp-station.com/) posted a great ‘frequently asked question' along with a very clear answer, to the [C# FAQ](http://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp/team/faq/) recently....
+[Joe Mayo](http://www.csharp-station.com/) posted a great 'frequently asked question' along with a very clear answer, to the [C# FAQ](http://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp/team/faq/) recently....
-> [Why did I receive the error: "The type or namespace ‘
-I'm expecting Andy (above) to show up in my office at any moment with the C# ‘club of motivation', but perhaps I can save myself before he arrives... with your help.
+I'm expecting Andy (above) to show up in my office at any moment with the C# 'club of motivation', but perhaps I can save myself before he arrives... with your help.
My task was to come up with a good set of questions that we could ask all of our MVPs as part of a "meet the MVPs" section of the developer center. Here's some of the questions I have so far;
diff --git a/content/Blog/the-chalk-talk-went-well.md b/content/Blog/the-chalk-talk-went-well.md
index 806f2e98..1896e571 100644
--- a/content/Blog/the-chalk-talk-went-well.md
+++ b/content/Blog/the-chalk-talk-went-well.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2004-05-28T03:49:00+00:00
-title: The ‘Chalk Talk’ went well….
+title: The 'Chalk Talk' went well....
type: posts
---
[ 
](http://www.duncanmackenzie.net/images/anderschalktalk.jpg" rel="lightbox[115]" title="The 'Chalk Talk' went well....)
diff --git a/content/Blog/the-csharp-team-has-a-frequently-asked-question-blog.md b/content/Blog/the-csharp-team-has-a-frequently-asked-question-blog.md
index 512e2116..a614e6b6 100644
--- a/content/Blog/the-csharp-team-has-a-frequently-asked-question-blog.md
+++ b/content/Blog/the-csharp-team-has-a-frequently-asked-question-blog.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2004-03-07T04:42:00+00:00
-title: The CSharp Team has a “Frequently Asked Question” Blog…
+title: The CSharp Team has a "Frequently Asked Question" Blog...
type: posts
---
[Click here](http://blogs.msdn.com/csharpfaq/archive/2004/03/06/85249.aspx) to see the first post, which is a request for some **questions!!**
diff --git a/content/Blog/the-deverry-novels-by-katharine-kerr.md b/content/Blog/the-deverry-novels-by-katharine-kerr.md
index b6295037..0ac14360 100644
--- a/content/Blog/the-deverry-novels-by-katharine-kerr.md
+++ b/content/Blog/the-deverry-novels-by-katharine-kerr.md
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ date: 2006-10-16T09:49:00+00:00
title: The Deverry Novels by Katharine Kerr
type: posts
---
-I've recently begun re-reading [the Deverry novels](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharine_Kerr); I just went through [Daggerspell](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0553565214?ie=UTF8&tag=duncanmackenz-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0553565214)
, [Darkspell](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0553568884?ie=UTF8&tag=duncanmackenz-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0553568884) 
and I'm onto [The Bristling Wood](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0553285815?ie=UTF8&tag=duncanmackenz-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0553285815) 
(basically ‘Act 1' as the author has described the books as being the various parts of a long play). This is an excellent series, but one that I found quite by accident.
+I've recently begun re-reading [the Deverry novels](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharine_Kerr); I just went through [Daggerspell](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0553565214?ie=UTF8&tag=duncanmackenz-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0553565214)
again so I tend to look for them in bargain bins at bookstores and the like. Well, when I thought I had discovered a whole new series by the same person I immediately bought the first four books in the Deverry series. Of course, it was not the same person at all, Kerr instead of Kurtz, but I didn't figure that out right away. So, I ended up reading a great series of books completely by accident.
+Back when I was a fairly young kid, maybe 12 or 13, a friend of my mother was visting our house and upon realizing that I read the same type of books as him, offered to trade his set of books by [David Eddings](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Eddings) for [my 'Deryni' series by Katherine Kurtz](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deryni_novels). Now I read my books over and over again, so I didn't understand what he meant... it seems perfectly logical to most folks that since we had both read our books once, this was a permanent trade, but I was quite surprised when I eventually figured that out. Of course, I could have just asked for my books back, but that didn't seem appropriate and I certainly had enjoyed the [Belgariad](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Belgariad) (although the second set of books by Mr. Eddings seemed way too much of a retelling of the first... right down to the same characters... sure they were the descendants of the first set, but really... would they all end up with roughly the same personalites?). Anyway, I've always wanted to pick up [the Deryni series](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0345326784?ie=UTF8&tag=duncanmackenz-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0345326784) 
](http://duncanmackenzie.net/images/7342d0ff-84f8-4883-b8c2-23366536793b.png" rel="lightbox[510]" title="Look at the artist page in the new zune software!)
diff --git a/content/Blog/the-on10channel-9-dev-team-have-another-dev-focused-video-up.md b/content/Blog/the-on10channel-9-dev-team-have-another-dev-focused-video-up.md
index 6a76925e..1532ef70 100644
--- a/content/Blog/the-on10channel-9-dev-team-have-another-dev-focused-video-up.md
+++ b/content/Blog/the-on10channel-9-dev-team-have-another-dev-focused-video-up.md
@@ -3,6 +3,6 @@ date: 2006-08-16T18:38:00+00:00
title: The on10/Channel 9 Dev team have another dev focused video up
type: posts
---
-I even got to be the ‘preview' image! [Check this out](http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=226369) to hear a bit more about our design and implementation of on10.net, and for some more info on our plans around on10.net going forward and for moving Channel 9 on to this new code base.
+I even got to be the 'preview' image! [Check this out](http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=226369) to hear a bit more about our design and implementation of on10.net, and for some more info on our plans around on10.net going forward and for moving Channel 9 on to this new code base.
[
](http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=226369)
diff --git a/content/Blog/the-spouse-acceptance-factor.md b/content/Blog/the-spouse-acceptance-factor.md
index 9a5d1467..3e05bd5e 100644
--- a/content/Blog/the-spouse-acceptance-factor.md
+++ b/content/Blog/the-spouse-acceptance-factor.md
@@ -15,15 +15,15 @@ First, I went out and picked up Tivo, back when we first moved down to the US (T
Next, I brought in [my own home-grown media center like box](http://www.duncanmackenzie.net/musicxp) to play all our music. Generally well accepted, but with remote control issues (a tendency to take one button press to mean 3 or 4, therefore playing music you were just trying to browse through, scrolling way farther than intended, etc..). I was never really able to fix the remote issues, but I never spent any time trying (too much work to do for my real job to be debugging my hobby project for more than a few minutes), and the system became something that only I would use.
-Eventually I replaced that music pc with a ‘real' Media Center system running the first version of Windows Media Center, and tried to get people to use it instead of Tivo as well as for music/photos... well, it worked most of the time, but we had it stowed away in a cabinet and it would occasionally (way too often for our tastes) require the user to hit a keyboard or mouse button to get past some message box or dialog... which resulted in my wife just shutting it off and using the Tivo again. Along came the most recent version of Media Center (2005) and the SAF was greatly increased... no more dialogs require the keyboard ever appeared and it seemed easier to use for many reasons. Combined with a media center extender, which brings the whole system closer to the feel of a consumer appliance, and everything seems hunky dory... kinda...
+Eventually I replaced that music pc with a 'real' Media Center system running the first version of Windows Media Center, and tried to get people to use it instead of Tivo as well as for music/photos... well, it worked most of the time, but we had it stowed away in a cabinet and it would occasionally (way too often for our tastes) require the user to hit a keyboard or mouse button to get past some message box or dialog... which resulted in my wife just shutting it off and using the Tivo again. Along came the most recent version of Media Center (2005) and the SAF was greatly increased... no more dialogs require the keyboard ever appeared and it seemed easier to use for many reasons. Combined with a media center extender, which brings the whole system closer to the feel of a consumer appliance, and everything seems hunky dory... kinda...
-For some reason, every once in awhile I get an error while watching a show... **"Content Expired"** and the screen is replaced with a big message about needed to re-acquire the content (this isn't some HBO content protection thing ... this happens on normal ABC/NBC type shows recorded the night before). Pressing stop, then play, fixes the problem, but every single time it happens I get to hear "Tivo never did this, you know" (partially just to bug me, I'm sure) ... and it happens a few times a week. Oh... and sometimes the media center extender just suddenly dies and says that it experienced ‘a problem' ... and needs to be reset. There are a few other issues, making it seem unreliable... which means it is currently toeing the line between being loved and being thrown out... not sure what the resolution is going to be on that one.
+For some reason, every once in awhile I get an error while watching a show... **"Content Expired"** and the screen is replaced with a big message about needed to re-acquire the content (this isn't some HBO content protection thing ... this happens on normal ABC/NBC type shows recorded the night before). Pressing stop, then play, fixes the problem, but every single time it happens I get to hear "Tivo never did this, you know" (partially just to bug me, I'm sure) ... and it happens a few times a week. Oh... and sometimes the media center extender just suddenly dies and says that it experienced 'a problem' ... and needs to be reset. There are a few other issues, making it seem unreliable... which means it is currently toeing the line between being loved and being thrown out... not sure what the resolution is going to be on that one.
-The final piece of ‘new tech' in my house is the Vonage voip phone system which works very well, except when the Internet is down. This isn't Vonage's problem but it is a dependency and for some reason my Comcast internet seems to die for at least a few hours every week... generally right when I'm at work and my wife finally has some time to call all the various doctors and friends to set up appointments, playdates, etc... sure, it comes back in a few hours, but by then my wife has tried the phone ten times, reset and power-cycled the cable modem, etc... and whenever that happens I get the request "can we please go back to regular phone service and Tivo? I don't need fancy features, but I need this stuff to work.... and work all the time!".
+The final piece of 'new tech' in my house is the Vonage voip phone system which works very well, except when the Internet is down. This isn't Vonage's problem but it is a dependency and for some reason my Comcast internet seems to die for at least a few hours every week... generally right when I'm at work and my wife finally has some time to call all the various doctors and friends to set up appointments, playdates, etc... sure, it comes back in a few hours, but by then my wife has tried the phone ten times, reset and power-cycled the cable modem, etc... and whenever that happens I get the request "can we please go back to regular phone service and Tivo? I don't need fancy features, but I need this stuff to work.... and work all the time!".
Yesterday the phone service stopped working for an hour, when my wife was trying to call the doctor about a problem that my son is having... and then today the media center extender [stopped working](http://www.duncanmackenzie.net/images/VOICEATT.WAV) (I think because I had VPN'd into microsoft the night before on the media center pc, and then disconnected... but I still think that is what ended up confusing the extender) ... leading my wife to compare all the new technology in our home to "being left alone with a pet that behaves itself when you are home, but then gets violent after you leave".
-As a technology junkie, this is a difficult situation for me... so now I'm considering my options... should I go back to ‘regular' phone service (cell phones don't work at my house, by the way... they start to die around a block from my place)? Should I get digital cable and a DVR from the cable company perhaps? Should I consider DirectTV and their DVR? Should I take advantage of the switch to get some form of HD service... only if I can get a HD DVR solution, of course...
+As a technology junkie, this is a difficult situation for me... so now I'm considering my options... should I go back to 'regular' phone service (cell phones don't work at my house, by the way... they start to die around a block from my place)? Should I get digital cable and a DVR from the cable company perhaps? Should I consider DirectTV and their DVR? Should I take advantage of the switch to get some form of HD service... only if I can get a HD DVR solution, of course...
hassle, hassle, hassle... and there are always so many choices (DirectTV vs. Cable for example) and you are generally giving something up with every choice...
diff --git a/content/Blog/the-updater-application-block-various-additions.md b/content/Blog/the-updater-application-block-various-additions.md
index adaa51d7..bfee5f86 100644
--- a/content/Blog/the-updater-application-block-various-additions.md
+++ b/content/Blog/the-updater-application-block-various-additions.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2004-08-10T11:16:00+00:00
-title: The Updater Application Block… various additions…
+title: The Updater Application Block... various additions...
type: posts
---
One of the nice things about [the Updater Application Block](http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/Workspaces/workspace.aspx?id=83c68646-befb-4586-ba9f-fdf1301902f5) is that it was written to be quite extensible... I saw [a post today](http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/MessageBoard/Thread.aspx?id=251828&Page=1#252347) where SamSantiago mentioned [he had created a custom class](http://www.softitechture.com/discussions/) to delete all those old versions on your machine whenever you do an update.... very cool, I'll be trying that out right away...
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ One of the nice things about [the Updater Application Block](http://www.gotdotne
Personally, I've _updated the updater_ in [a few different ways](http://weblogs.asp.net/duncanma/archive/2003/08/12/23901.aspx), but the most recent changes have been the most reusable, in my opinon;
* I fixed the code so that it no longer requires users to have admin rights...
- * I added a ‘mandatory' flag to the updates (and updated the manifestutility in a few different ways), so that for some updates the client app would know not to ask the user if they want to upgrade... great for occasionally forcing everyone up to the same build...
- * and I modified the manifest retrieval code so that it can call an ASP or ASP.NET page, which in turn allowed me to create a manifest.aspx page that returns different manifests based on the user's credentials (so I can have a ‘beta' group who are given one version, and everyone else gets the last major release...)
+ * I added a 'mandatory' flag to the updates (and updated the manifestutility in a few different ways), so that for some updates the client app would know not to ask the user if they want to upgrade... great for occasionally forcing everyone up to the same build...
+ * and I modified the manifest retrieval code so that it can call an ASP or ASP.NET page, which in turn allowed me to create a manifest.aspx page that returns different manifests based on the user's credentials (so I can have a 'beta' group who are given one version, and everyone else gets the last major release...)
I've got to work out a way to get these bits of code online.... it isn't hard, but it takes time that I haven't planned in yet 🙂
diff --git a/content/Blog/the-viewport-meta-tag-and-the-iphone.md b/content/Blog/the-viewport-meta-tag-and-the-iphone.md
index 17ea3385..29388af3 100644
--- a/content/Blog/the-viewport-meta-tag-and-the-iphone.md
+++ b/content/Blog/the-viewport-meta-tag-and-the-iphone.md
@@ -3,4 +3,4 @@ date: 2008-01-03T10:55:00+00:00
title: The Viewport Meta Tag and the iPhone
type: posts
---
-I've been [fiddling around with mobile interfaces](http://www.duncanmackenzie.net/blog/looking-for-good-examples-of-mobile-interfaces/default.aspx) for both my personal site and for the various sites I work on (
- [Listening to: Short Skirt/Long Jacket/Album Version – [CAKE](http://www.windowsmedia.com/mg/search.asp?srch=CAKE) – Comfort Eagle (03:24)]
+ [Listening to: Short Skirt/Long Jacket/Album Version – [CAKE](http://www.windowsmedia.com/mg/search.asp?srch=CAKE) – Comfort Eagle (03:24)]
diff --git a/content/Blog/trying-out-something-bad.md b/content/Blog/trying-out-something-bad.md
index 8b795b1f..7e8c2269 100644
--- a/content/Blog/trying-out-something-bad.md
+++ b/content/Blog/trying-out-something-bad.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2004-07-28T02:54:00+00:00
-title: Trying out something ‘bad’…
+title: Trying out something 'bad'...
type: posts
---
So, if you missed it... I was just playing with displaying a poll in the blog... don't worry, I won't make a habit of this :)... I did it using 
](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0764575368/duncanmackenz-20?creative=327641&camp=14573&link_code=as1" title="Professional Visual Basic 2005)
-[Kent Sharkey](http://www.acmebinary.com/blogs/kent) is one of the authors of the soon to be released 
](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0471771805/duncanmackenz-20?creative=327641&camp=14573&link_code=as1)
diff --git a/content/Blog/two-new-additions-to-my-blog-home-page.md b/content/Blog/two-new-additions-to-my-blog-home-page.md
index eb0a556d..211230ce 100644
--- a/content/Blog/two-new-additions-to-my-blog-home-page.md
+++ b/content/Blog/two-new-additions-to-my-blog-home-page.md
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
---
date: 2004-03-17T11:38:00+00:00
-title: Two new additions to my blog home page…
+title: Two new additions to my blog home page...
type: posts
---
You may never see the actual web interface to my blog, but if you do you'll see two new graphics along the left-hand side...
-
+
diff --git a/content/Blog/ugh-i-want-to-code.md b/content/Blog/ugh-i-want-to-code.md
index 4c4f69c5..500f45ef 100644
--- a/content/Blog/ugh-i-want-to-code.md
+++ b/content/Blog/ugh-i-want-to-code.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2003-09-14T10:11:00+00:00
-title: Ugh.. I want to code…
+title: Ugh.. I want to code...
type: posts
---
I have a bunch of writing to do, but what I really want to do is code!
diff --git a/content/Blog/ui-patterns-and-techniques.md b/content/Blog/ui-patterns-and-techniques.md
index f6e7fe90..d884a53d 100644
--- a/content/Blog/ui-patterns-and-techniques.md
+++ b/content/Blog/ui-patterns-and-techniques.md
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ This is not about .NET. I just found a site full of information about standard p
>
> If you've done any Web or UI design, or even thought about it much, you should say, "Oh, right, I know what that is" to most of these patterns. But a few of them might be new to you, and some of the familiar ones may not be part of your usual design repertoire.
>
-> Each of these patterns (which are more general) and techniques (more specific) are intended to help you solve design problems. They're common problems, and there's no point in reinventing the wheel every time you need, say, a sortable table — plenty of folks have already done it, and learned how to do it well. Some of that knowledge is written up here, in an easily-digestible format.
+> Each of these patterns (which are more general) and techniques (more specific) are intended to help you solve design problems. They're common problems, and there's no point in reinventing the wheel every time you need, say, a sortable table – plenty of folks have already done it, and learned how to do it well. Some of that knowledge is written up here, in an easily-digestible format.
>
>
> diff --git a/content/Blog/upcoming-c-chat-september-23-2004.md b/content/Blog/upcoming-c-chat-september-23-2004.md index 62515021..df606fa9 100644 --- a/content/Blog/upcoming-c-chat-september-23-2004.md +++ b/content/Blog/upcoming-c-chat-september-23-2004.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- date: 2004-09-03T23:25:00+00:00 -title: Upcoming C# Chat… September 23, 2004 +title: Upcoming C# Chat... September 23, 2004 type: posts --- Hey folks, this chat is coming up and it would be great if you could make it... if you have a lot of opinions, good or bad, around C#... please show up and let the team know.... @@ -13,5 +13,5 @@ and, if you have opinions, but can't make the chat... or choose not to... why do Thanks in advance for your replies!!
- [Listening to: The Scientist – [Coldplay](http://www.windowsmedia.com/mg/search.asp?srch=Coldplay) – Big Shiny Tunes 8 (05:10)]
+ [Listening to: The Scientist – [Coldplay](http://www.windowsmedia.com/mg/search.asp?srch=Coldplay) – Big Shiny Tunes 8 (05:10)]
diff --git a/content/Blog/update-1-for-the-xbox-media-center-extender.md b/content/Blog/update-1-for-the-xbox-media-center-extender.md
index dfc5876f..45004872 100644
--- a/content/Blog/update-1-for-the-xbox-media-center-extender.md
+++ b/content/Blog/update-1-for-the-xbox-media-center-extender.md
@@ -8,23 +8,23 @@ I saw a newsgroup post (by Todd Bowra) that an update was available for my XBox
> For those of you who have been patiently waiting for Update Rollup 1 for Media Center Extender for Xbox (aka "the restricted content update"), the wait is now over. This afternoon, Update Rollup 1 was released via Xbox Live and simultaneously made available on disc for users who do not have Xbox Live. Summarized details are below.
>
> Changes in Update Rollup 1
-> —————————–
+> ––––––––––
>
-> – Playback of CGMS-A protected TV content is now enabled
-> – Some MP3 files that previously played silently will now play correctly
+> – Playback of CGMS-A protected TV content is now enabled
+> – Some MP3 files that previously played silently will now play correctly
>
> Obtaining Update Rollup 1: Xbox Live users
-> ———————————————
+> –––––––––––––––
>
> If you have MCX for Xbox and are an Xbox Live user, you will be prompted to update your MCX software next time you log in to Live. Once the update has been installed, you will be prompted to add your MCX to your Media Center again, which you can accomplish by following the below steps:
>
-> – On your Media Center PC, launch the MCX Manager (Start –> All Programs –> Accessories –> Media Center –> Media Center Extender Manager)
-> – Select File –> Add a new Extender...
-> – Type in the 8-digit code displayed on the TV your Xbox is connected to
+> – On your Media Center PC, launch the MCX Manager (Start –> All Programs –> Accessories –> Media Center –> Media Center Extender Manager)
+> – Select File –> Add a new Extender...
+> – Type in the 8-digit code displayed on the TV your Xbox is connected to
>
> Note: if you download Update Rollup 1 from Xbox Live, you will also need to install updated PC-side software to enable the functionality noted under Changes. You may obtain this software via the link noted under "Obtaining Update Rollup 1: users without Xbox Live". Note that you will not need to install additional PC software if you have already installed the MCX set top box update (available via [http://www.microsoft.com/ windowsxp/mediacenter/evaluation /devices/support.mspx](http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/mediacenter/evaluation/devices/support.mspx)).
>
> Obtaining Update Rollup 1: users without Xbox Live
-> —————————————————–
+> ––––––––––––––––––
>
> For MCX users who do not have Xbox Live, Update Rollup 1 may be obtained on disc; details are available at the following URL: [http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=39479](http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=39479).
diff --git a/content/Blog/update-on-the-free-stuff.md b/content/Blog/update-on-the-free-stuff.md
index 351df687..369c48f9 100644
--- a/content/Blog/update-on-the-free-stuff.md
+++ b/content/Blog/update-on-the-free-stuff.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2005-01-26T21:52:00+00:00
-title: Update on the free stuff…
+title: Update on the free stuff...
type: posts
---
I few people emailed me to ask if the various free (referral based) offers out there are working for me... well, yes and no. I have 4 out of the 8 referrals required for [a free flat screen](http://www.freeflatscreens.com/?r=13882371), 1 out of 11 for the [free mini mac](http://www.freeminimacs.com/?r=13892191) and none for the [free Personal Video Player](http://www.pvps4free.com/default.aspx?r=160508)... which makes sense actually, I blogged about the first, I've never really talked about the mini mac one, but there is a little button link on this page so it gets a little bit of traffic, and I have never before mentioned the video player one... so it isn't getting any traffic at all.
diff --git a/content/Blog/updated-c-sneak-preview-is-mostly-online.md b/content/Blog/updated-c-sneak-preview-is-mostly-online.md
index 6e22c623..c3cc253d 100644
--- a/content/Blog/updated-c-sneak-preview-is-mostly-online.md
+++ b/content/Blog/updated-c-sneak-preview-is-mostly-online.md
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
---
date: 2004-09-22T22:03:00+00:00
-title: Updated C# Sneak Preview is (mostly) online…
+title: Updated C# Sneak Preview is (mostly) online...
type: posts
---
-Lots of pretty pictures.... lots more info coming, but I thought I'd let you folks know that I have put **some** of it up onto the site... but nowhere near all... about half the ‘productivity' section is still pending and I still have the debugger and platform sections to build out...
+Lots of pretty pictures.... lots more info coming, but I thought I'd let you folks know that I have put **some** of it up onto the site... but nowhere near all... about half the 'productivity' section is still pending and I still have the debugger and platform sections to build out...
Anyway, check it out if you wish by [clicking here](http://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp/2005/overview/default.aspx).
diff --git a/content/Blog/updated-my-personal-site-to-use-the-firefoxie7-feed-icons.md b/content/Blog/updated-my-personal-site-to-use-the-firefoxie7-feed-icons.md
index 0d89d52d..4c050e89 100644
--- a/content/Blog/updated-my-personal-site-to-use-the-firefoxie7-feed-icons.md
+++ b/content/Blog/updated-my-personal-site-to-use-the-firefoxie7-feed-icons.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2005-12-31T05:14:00+00:00
-title: Updated my personal site to use the Firefox/IE7 feed icons…
+title: Updated my personal site to use the Firefox/IE7 feed icons...
type: posts
---
-As per the blog entry "[Feed icons](http://blogs.msdn.com/justsean/archive/2005/12/30/508181.aspx "Microsoft WebBlogs")" and using icons pulled from the new [feedicons](http://www.feedicons.com) site. Hopefully [MSDN](http://msdn.microsoft.com) will follow suit as well, which would probably be pretty easy... it looks like they are mostly linking every instance of the ‘old' RSS icon to the same graphic. I'll suggest it and we'll see what happens.
+As per the blog entry "[Feed icons](http://blogs.msdn.com/justsean/archive/2005/12/30/508181.aspx "Microsoft WebBlogs")" and using icons pulled from the new [feedicons](http://www.feedicons.com) site. Hopefully [MSDN](http://msdn.microsoft.com) will follow suit as well, which would probably be pretty easy... it looks like they are mostly linking every instance of the 'old' RSS icon to the same graphic. I'll suggest it and we'll see what happens.
diff --git a/content/Blog/updated-the-blogs-page-on-msdn-microsoft-comvbasic.md b/content/Blog/updated-the-blogs-page-on-msdn-microsoft-comvbasic.md
index f3a9c8b4..cc5cff61 100644
--- a/content/Blog/updated-the-blogs-page-on-msdn-microsoft-comvbasic.md
+++ b/content/Blog/updated-the-blogs-page-on-msdn-microsoft-comvbasic.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2004-06-11T23:41:00+00:00
-title: Updated the ‘blogs’ page on msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic
+title: Updated the 'blogs' page on msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic
type: posts
---
I haven't taken into account [the comments to Paul Vick's request for VB bloggers](http://www.panopticoncentral.net/archive/2004/06/01/1123.aspx), but the page has been updated a bit based on my own list of folks that blog about VB.
diff --git a/content/Blog/updated-the-headlines-on-the-vb-community-page-today.md b/content/Blog/updated-the-headlines-on-the-vb-community-page-today.md
index 50893f97..8a084941 100644
--- a/content/Blog/updated-the-headlines-on-the-vb-community-page-today.md
+++ b/content/Blog/updated-the-headlines-on-the-vb-community-page-today.md
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
---
date: 2004-08-03T00:58:00+00:00
-title: Updated the headlines on the VB Community page today…
+title: Updated the headlines on the VB Community page today...
type: posts
---
-
>
->
+> 
@@ -11,4 +11,4 @@ There are additional steps to make it so you can write to your Zune, but it seem
Lets say you've sync'd 40 episodes of [Geek Brief](http://geekbriefwp.podshow.com/) onto your Zune (downloaded as MP4 before I noticed they have a WMV feed!), well the next time you try to sync those files (because you've deleted them from your Zune or whatever, or perhaps you have more than one Zune) then most of them will have to be converted again (maybe some will still be in your transcoding cache). What I did with this (very unsupported) hack is to copy all the videos back onto my machine and then delete the originals... anytime I want to copy them onto my Zune again it will be quick!
-If you are, like many folks I've talked to, worried about losing some of the pre-loaded music and video that ships with your Zune (it is possible to lose it in some of the ‘auto-sync' scenarios), then you could use this hack to pull those files off and add them to your Zune library on the PC.
+If you are, like many folks I've talked to, worried about losing some of the pre-loaded music and video that ships with your Zune (it is possible to lose it in some of the 'auto-sync' scenarios), then you could use this hack to pull those files off and add them to your Zune library on the PC.
diff --git a/content/Blog/vb-futures-section-up-on-msdn.md b/content/Blog/vb-futures-section-up-on-msdn.md
index afef79f3..dc8d4cb5 100644
--- a/content/Blog/vb-futures-section-up-on-msdn.md
+++ b/content/Blog/vb-futures-section-up-on-msdn.md
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
---
date: 2005-09-20T04:32:00+00:00
-title: VB Futures section up on MSDN…
+title: VB Futures section up on MSDN...
type: posts
---
Now, to me, VB 2005 is the "future", and anything beyond that is really just coffee-break information to read briefly.... but I guess I wouldn't be a very good Microsoft person if I didn't start pushing the version-after-next version of our development tools **before the next version has even shipped**.
-So, with that in mind, check out [http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/future/](http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/future/) which, despite my comments, is quite a good pile of info on post-Whidbey VB features and even includes a download to bring LINQ features in VB 2005. Hmm... ok, I guess with that download it seems a bit more ‘current' to me ... hmph...
+So, with that in mind, check out [http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/future/](http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/future/) which, despite my comments, is quite a good pile of info on post-Whidbey VB features and even includes a download to bring LINQ features in VB 2005. Hmm... ok, I guess with that download it seems a bit more 'current' to me ... hmph...
diff --git a/content/Blog/vb-sessions-at-teched-2004.md b/content/Blog/vb-sessions-at-teched-2004.md
index c9d53dd5..44405ac9 100644
--- a/content/Blog/vb-sessions-at-teched-2004.md
+++ b/content/Blog/vb-sessions-at-teched-2004.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2004-05-08T09:10:00+00:00
-title: VB sessions at TechEd 2004…
+title: VB sessions at TechEd 2004...
type: posts
---
[Paul Vick](http://www.panopticoncentral.net/) (Technical Lead on the VB team and author of [this book](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0321169514/duncanmackenz-20)) provides a list of key VB sessions scheduled for the upcoming TechEd conference... and his schedule for the week.
diff --git a/content/Blog/vb6-resource-center-is-up.md b/content/Blog/vb6-resource-center-is-up.md
index f36db0e7..f042700f 100644
--- a/content/Blog/vb6-resource-center-is-up.md
+++ b/content/Blog/vb6-resource-center-is-up.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2005-04-07T15:34:00+00:00
-title: VB6 Resource Center is up…
+title: VB6 Resource Center is up...
type: posts
---
](http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/atthemovies/download/)
diff --git a/content/Blog/visual-basic-at-the-movies-now-available.md b/content/Blog/visual-basic-at-the-movies-now-available.md
index 761ce25f..b409ecff 100644
--- a/content/Blog/visual-basic-at-the-movies-now-available.md
+++ b/content/Blog/visual-basic-at-the-movies-now-available.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2004-04-28T21:50:00+00:00
-title: Visual Basic At The Movies now available…
+title: Visual Basic At The Movies now available...
type: posts
---
We just launched [a series of videos about VB.NET onto the Visual Basic Developer Center](http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/atthemovies), check them out!
diff --git a/content/Blog/visual-basic-rss-feed-should-be-a-bit-busier.md b/content/Blog/visual-basic-rss-feed-should-be-a-bit-busier.md
index 3770feee..1e557ed2 100644
--- a/content/Blog/visual-basic-rss-feed-should-be-a-bit-busier.md
+++ b/content/Blog/visual-basic-rss-feed-should-be-a-bit-busier.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2003-11-18T23:10:00+00:00
-title: Visual Basic RSS Feed should be a bit busier…
+title: Visual Basic RSS Feed should be a bit busier...
type: posts
---
There was a little issue with our criteria for [the VB feed](http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/rss.xml), which has now been resolved... so you should notice that feed will have a fair bit more content going forward... all of it hopefully relevant to VB types (like me!)
diff --git a/content/Blog/visual-basic-team-blog-has-launched.md b/content/Blog/visual-basic-team-blog-has-launched.md
index c5f57280..bda56043 100644
--- a/content/Blog/visual-basic-team-blog-has-launched.md
+++ b/content/Blog/visual-basic-team-blog-has-launched.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2004-05-18T02:54:00+00:00
-title: Visual Basic Team Blog has launched…
+title: Visual Basic Team Blog has launched...
type: posts
---
Look for lots of posts from the upcoming TechEd conference as well as material around all things VB...
diff --git a/content/Blog/visual-basic-usage-survey-posted.md b/content/Blog/visual-basic-usage-survey-posted.md
index 7627b8c9..d2a86e89 100644
--- a/content/Blog/visual-basic-usage-survey-posted.md
+++ b/content/Blog/visual-basic-usage-survey-posted.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2004-10-30T09:18:00+00:00
-title: Visual Basic Usage Survey posted….
+title: Visual Basic Usage Survey posted....
type: posts
---
The VB team is interested in collecting some stats about how you use VB, so I put a simple survey up for them at [http://www.duncanmackenzie.net/visualbasicsurvey/](http://www.duncanmackenzie.net/visualbasicsurvey/), feel free to check it out if you are interested in providing information...
diff --git a/content/Blog/visual-c-whidbey-language-enhancements.md b/content/Blog/visual-c-whidbey-language-enhancements.md
index c97955cd..3c442939 100644
--- a/content/Blog/visual-c-whidbey-language-enhancements.md
+++ b/content/Blog/visual-c-whidbey-language-enhancements.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2003-11-28T03:17:00+00:00
-title: 'Visual C# “Whidbey”: Language Enhancements'
+title: 'Visual C# "Whidbey": Language Enhancements'
type: posts
---
If you think we are talking about Whidbey too much... don't read this post 🙂
diff --git a/content/Blog/visual-studio-2005-beta-1-and-the-express-edition-betas-have-launched.md b/content/Blog/visual-studio-2005-beta-1-and-the-express-edition-betas-have-launched.md
index 73dbb7e9..593e2614 100644
--- a/content/Blog/visual-studio-2005-beta-1-and-the-express-edition-betas-have-launched.md
+++ b/content/Blog/visual-studio-2005-beta-1-and-the-express-edition-betas-have-launched.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2004-06-29T10:38:00+00:00
-title: Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1 and the Express Edition Betas have launched…
+title: Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1 and the Express Edition Betas have launched...
type: posts
---
Ah, launch day... what else would have most of my colleagues sitting in their offices at 12:30 am in the morning on a Monday... and there isn't a single Halo game running!!
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ Links of the moment:
* [C# Express](http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/vcsharp)
* [VB Express](http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/vbasic)
* [The New VS 2005 Developer Center](http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/vs2005)
- * [The Channel 9 "Summer of Express" contest](http://channel9.msdn.com/express) (for all you ‘enthusiasts' out there)
+ * [The Channel 9 "Summer of Express" contest](http://channel9.msdn.com/express) (for all you 'enthusiasts' out there)
[
](http://channel9.msdn.com/express)
- Oh, and one other thing... some folks have complained in the past that MSDN is providing too much coverage of ‘future' topics like Whidbey and Longhorn, and we certainly understand that concern... personally I've been watching the content on my two sites (/vbasic and /vcsharp) and we've been floating around 90% shipping products, 10% future... which is where I'd like to keep it... but this launch will throw all of MSDN ratios out of whack for a bit as we headline the ton of content that has been written targeting the Beta 1 bits and is all being released at the same time.... my apologies in advance if you are sick of hearing about Whidbey, but rest assured that at least VB and C# will be returning to a more reasonable balance of material in the near future.
+ Oh, and one other thing... some folks have complained in the past that MSDN is providing too much coverage of 'future' topics like Whidbey and Longhorn, and we certainly understand that concern... personally I've been watching the content on my two sites (/vbasic and /vcsharp) and we've been floating around 90% shipping products, 10% future... which is where I'd like to keep it... but this launch will throw all of MSDN ratios out of whack for a bit as we headline the ton of content that has been written targeting the Beta 1 bits and is all being released at the same time.... my apologies in advance if you are sick of hearing about Whidbey, but rest assured that at least VB and C# will be returning to a more reasonable balance of material in the near future.
diff --git a/content/Blog/visual-studio-net-bootstrapper-plug-in.md b/content/Blog/visual-studio-net-bootstrapper-plug-in.md
index 26d4c183..70c24af6 100644
--- a/content/Blog/visual-studio-net-bootstrapper-plug-in.md
+++ b/content/Blog/visual-studio-net-bootstrapper-plug-in.md
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ date: 2003-10-14T09:55:00+00:00
title: Visual Studio .NET Bootstrapper Plug-In
type: posts
---
-The VS team has produced a ‘preview' version of a new plug-in...
+The VS team has produced a 'preview' version of a new plug-in...
> Setup projects in Visual Studio .NET 2003 can be used to install the .NET Framework with your application, but only if you have installed the optional Visual Studio .NET Framework Bootstrapper Plug-in on your development computer. The Visual Studio .NET Framework Bootstrapper Plug-in modifies the behavior of the Setup project's Bootstrapper property to include the .NET Framework bootstrapper as well as the Windows Installer bootstrapper. The .NET Framework redistributable is then packaged with your application; when the user runs the bootstrapper setup.exe, it checks for the correct version of the .NET Framework at install time and if necessary, installs it before installing your application.
@@ -12,5 +12,5 @@ and placed it up onto [a gotdotnet workspace](http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community
Enjoy!
](http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/eventdetail.aspx?eventid=1032254455&culture=en-us)
@@ -37,6 +37,6 @@ Before I can get into the ‘cool' feature, I should really give you some co
**
-The main day-to-day work of maintaining these sites involves updating the appropriate technical information pages when new articles become available. This is normally done by manually entering URLs, or by dragging links in from the browser window. The recent release of the [MSDN RSS](http://msdn.microsoft.com/aboutmsdn/rss.asp) feeds (which contain the up-to-date list of new content) and similar [feeds for sites like 4GuysFromRolla.com](http://www.4GuysFromRolla.com) produced the ‘nice to have' request for "Drag and Drop Links from an RSS feed".
+The main day-to-day work of maintaining these sites involves updating the appropriate technical information pages when new articles become available. This is normally done by manually entering URLs, or by dragging links in from the browser window. The recent release of the [MSDN RSS](http://msdn.microsoft.com/aboutmsdn/rss.asp) feeds (which contain the up-to-date list of new content) and similar [feeds for sites like 4GuysFromRolla.com](http://www.4GuysFromRolla.com) produced the 'nice to have' request for "Drag and Drop Links from an RSS feed".
* * *That is usually how I start... I write up some little blurb explaining why I picked the topic that I did and then I move onto writing the code... or, more often than not, I write the code to about 80-90% of the way first, before I ever start writing the article. In this case, I had already created a simple app that hosts the web browser control, successfully loads and transforms the MSDN RSS feeds and then sticks that HTML into the web browser. There is a lot more to write though, I've been working on getting the XSLT to sort the feeds correctly, dealing with the various types of body content (xhtml:body, content:encoded, etc.), and setting up a system to keep track of feed lists. Turns out that there are a few additional issues that will be worth discussing as I continue...
diff --git a/content/Blog/weve-release-yet-another-update-to-on10-net.md b/content/Blog/weve-release-yet-another-update-to-on10-net.md
index bde173a6..98c88b94 100644
--- a/content/Blog/weve-release-yet-another-update-to-on10-net.md
+++ b/content/Blog/weve-release-yet-another-update-to-on10-net.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2006-07-19T10:47:00+00:00
-title: We’ve release yet another update to on10.net
+title: We've release yet another update to on10.net
type: posts
---
This one appears [to be a bit special](http://on10.net/Forums/Lounge/3962/), as we are labeling it 1.0, which I guess means the site up until now was in Beta... I had no idea 🙂
diff --git a/content/Blog/what-an-interesting-few-days.md b/content/Blog/what-an-interesting-few-days.md
index ef9b84fb..728501c2 100644
--- a/content/Blog/what-an-interesting-few-days.md
+++ b/content/Blog/what-an-interesting-few-days.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2005-09-12T07:32:00+00:00
-title: What an interesting few days…
+title: What an interesting few days...
type: posts
---
My latest little “life adventure” got started on Wednesday last week… [Brian](http://www.bufferoverrun.net) and I had just grabbed coffees and I was back at my desk working through my list of bugs when I started to get a wicked ache in my gut. It was bad enough that I was having trouble concentrating so I headed home early and ended up there by four in the afternoon. Well, I felt pretty silly about it, having to come home early with a “tummy-ache”, but it just kept getting worse and I had to ask my family to make-do without me for a few hours while I tried to take it easy until this pain went away. Everyone was very understanding and I tried to take a nap or do just about anything to make myself feel better, including taking some Rolaids, drinking water, eating bland foods and even tried to force myself to throw up… but nothing was working and the pain was just bad enough that I couldn’t seem to sit still or lie down. The pain was bothering me but I was pretty convinced it was indigestion or some other temporary issue, so for the most part I was just annoyed that it was affecting me so much.
diff --git a/content/Blog/what-will-they-think-of-us.md b/content/Blog/what-will-they-think-of-us.md
index 883b12e0..6ec9c376 100644
--- a/content/Blog/what-will-they-think-of-us.md
+++ b/content/Blog/what-will-they-think-of-us.md
@@ -3,4 +3,4 @@ date: 2006-02-01T02:34:00+00:00
title: What will they think of us?
type: posts
---
-Kent [blogs about the Name Registry that was sent up with the launch to Pluto](http://www.acmebinary.com/blogs/kent/archive/2006/01/20/453.aspx)... If only Futurama was still on, they'd do a good job of writing the ‘what if' story about this one.
+Kent [blogs about the Name Registry that was sent up with the launch to Pluto](http://www.acmebinary.com/blogs/kent/archive/2006/01/20/453.aspx)... If only Futurama was still on, they'd do a good job of writing the 'what if' story about this one.
diff --git a/content/Blog/whats-the-difference-between-start-com-and-live-com.md b/content/Blog/whats-the-difference-between-start-com-and-live-com.md
index 436f02aa..80394d88 100644
--- a/content/Blog/whats-the-difference-between-start-com-and-live-com.md
+++ b/content/Blog/whats-the-difference-between-start-com-and-live-com.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2006-01-06T03:40:00+00:00
-title: What’s the difference between start.com and Live.com?
+title: What's the difference between start.com and Live.com?
type: posts
---
[Steven Vore](http://steven.vorefamily.net/) asks this question [in a comment](http://blogs.duncanmackenzie.net/duncanma/archive/2006/01/04/3491.aspx#3511) on my last blog entry... and [here is the answer](http://spaces.msn.com/members/sanaz/Blog/cns!1pjMasE-oWf_4mTADbVaTnXg!893.entry) (via [Adam's Blog](http://www.adamkinney.com/note.aspx?id=93))
diff --git a/content/Blog/whats-this-microsoft-covers-the-sony-releases-from-e3.md b/content/Blog/whats-this-microsoft-covers-the-sony-releases-from-e3.md
index 2016273d..479fd5ef 100644
--- a/content/Blog/whats-this-microsoft-covers-the-sony-releases-from-e3.md
+++ b/content/Blog/whats-this-microsoft-covers-the-sony-releases-from-e3.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2006-05-17T20:04:00+00:00
-title: What’s this? Microsoft covers the Sony releases from E3?
+title: What's this? Microsoft covers the Sony releases from E3?
type: posts
---
Yep, it may be surprising to some, but on10 has a bunch of great info on Sony up today....
diff --git a/content/Blog/whidbey-docs-up-on-msdns-lab-servers.md b/content/Blog/whidbey-docs-up-on-msdns-lab-servers.md
index 5d065c93..a103c402 100644
--- a/content/Blog/whidbey-docs-up-on-msdns-lab-servers.md
+++ b/content/Blog/whidbey-docs-up-on-msdns-lab-servers.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2004-06-06T08:42:00+00:00
-title: Whidbey docs up on MSDN’s lab servers…
+title: Whidbey docs up on MSDN's lab servers...
type: posts
---
Check out [this link](http://whidbey.msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dv_vbcn/html/d7e97396-7f42-4873-a81c-4ebcc4b6ca02.asp) to go right to the VB section... lots of great info in there... or check out [the C# section here](http://whidbey.msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dv_cscon/html/9bc638b4-757d-43e6-b87b-65a3fa6b787b.asp).
diff --git a/content/Blog/why-c-indeed.md b/content/Blog/why-c-indeed.md
index 6e3c7a21..788c0d4f 100644
--- a/content/Blog/why-c-indeed.md
+++ b/content/Blog/why-c-indeed.md
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ Early and Adopter seem to have just noticed my blog;
- [
](http://www.zuneboards.com/content/view/52/2/)
diff --git a/content/Blog/zune-version-of-snls-digital-short-a-dick-in-a-box.md b/content/Blog/zune-version-of-snls-digital-short-a-dick-in-a-box.md
index 6a7fe00e..1c34f1a7 100644
--- a/content/Blog/zune-version-of-snls-digital-short-a-dick-in-a-box.md
+++ b/content/Blog/zune-version-of-snls-digital-short-a-dick-in-a-box.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
date: 2007-01-10T20:56:00+00:00
-title: 'Zune version of SNL’s digital short: A Dick in a Box'
+title: Zune version of SNL's digital short 'A Dick in a Box'
type: posts
---
Grab it here if you'd like,