It is reported that Microsoft recently obtained patent for “Operating System Shutdown”. In simpler words, Microsoft now holds the intellectual property rights for ‘shutting down an operating system’. Tomorrow I will patent the process to patent bullshit like this. See you soon on my billionaire yacht. via Microsoft Patents Operating System Shutdown? WTF! | Tech [...]

VS10x Comments Extender is a Visual Studio 2010 extension built with the goal of making code commenting more useful from both a documenting and a productivity standpoint. By using a simple comment prefix system, you can change the default formatting of a comment by affecting its foreground color, font size and style. It works with [...]

Same as the reason I started to writing this blog… Be A Creator, Not a Consumer « Blankenblog.

WinRT isn’t another abstraction layer; it resides directly on top of the kernel just like the Win32 API. This marks the first major break in the core of Windows since Win32 was introduced in 1993 with Windows NT. WinRT represents a new application execution environment with semantics that are very different than Win32. God save [...]

Nice LifeHacker article on how to setup Dropbox and TrueCrypt.