I'm a bit of a do-it-yourself-er. I've wired up complete basements. Installed kitchen sinks, plumbing and all. Sometimes I have the correct tools, other times not. When I don't have the correct tools I sometimes improvise using tools that were not necessarily designed for the work at hand. Almost invariably it ends up taking more time than if I went out and purchased the tool or even worse the job gets completed on time but is of poor quality.

The same can be said of programming, the right tool for the job at hand is invaluable. Take for example LINQPad. This SQL Management Console like tool but for LINQ allows you to construct LINQ queries and run them directly in the LINQPad IDE. I've tried simple LINQ queries and it works great! Thanks Joseph Albahari, another tool to add to our Toolbox.

Guess the movie

I killed two people. One was... yesterday? He was just a boy and I led him into quicksand. The other was... well, before Aqaba. I had to execute him with my pistol, and there was something about it that I didn't like... I enjoyed it.