Moving to a new place

I've moved to a new location, please visit me @ http://bit.ly/8OKoad.

Hello... Again?

Tried to post from G1's browser, however it looks like it's not compatible with Blogger's JS based input control. Bummer.

Yet Another Hardware Upgrade.

Interesting - with all variety of notebooks on the market there's not that many choices available: Sony, Apple, Lenovo.
I've chosen the latter - happy with it so far. Nevertheless, it still takes some time to get used to Vista.

Coding for future or for past?

Finally picked up my notebook from UPS. Ordered it on 15th of January(!)... Anyways, that's not the point - the point is: it's preloaded with Vista, so I figured - I should keep it and see if I like it. Mostly visual goodies, also (I have Home Premium version) you can't RDP to it. Other than that - nothing that I would really miss. So, since I'm listening to podcasts on a regular basis, I downloaded the tool that I've been using for years now - Juice (iPodder) and I was naive to think that it will work. After trying to make it work for 15 mins I got frustrated and downloaded Itunes, which maybe has tons of other stuff that I don't need but at the end of the day it's free as well and works right out of the package....

The moral of the story?
Don't know - you tell me :-)

LINQ

The whole LINQ paradigm is leaving me asking more questions.
Well, maybe there are answers and I just didn't bother looking for nswers that much yet, however the main one that I looking an answer for is:
If we're looking for as much performance optimization as we can - is there a way to control the SQL statetment which is issued as a result of a DLINQ query? How am I supposed to optimize the database if I don't know what the actual query that's going to be running against it is?