I'm glad that you found this post. I was thinking about you when I put it up. I think both methods are pretty easy. It's just a matter of preference. I've started using the second method in my last couple of posts.

It should make a difference if you paste your image in from google or not. A thing that I found out today is that you have to pay attention to spaces in the markup. I had a space between the [] and the () and it screwed things up!