Bill Gates joins Twitter
by Shijaz Abdulla on 21.01.2010 at 09:15Bill Gates has joined Twitter. This is a Twitter verified account, meaning that it really is Bill. 
You can follow @BillGates on twitter.
Bill Gates' last day at Microsoft
by Shijaz Abdulla on 24.01.2008 at 10:03
This is a humorous video of Bill Gates’ last day at Microsoft shown during Microsoft CES 2008. Starring Bill Gates, Brian Williams, Steve Ballmer, Matthew McConaughey, Robbie Bach, Jay-Z, Bono, Steven Spielberg, George Clooney, Jon Stewart, Kevin Turner, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Al Gore, Ray Ozzie and Craig Mundie.
Ask Uncle Bill for money
by Shijaz Abdulla on 30.12.2007 at 12:55What started out as a blog post regarding Bill Gates’ idea to enforce postage stamps on email to reduce spam has now become a bulletin board for desperate people requesting money from the millionaire.
See it for yourself – this is hilarious!
http://geekswithblogs.net/tpatel/archive/2004/03/10/2718.aspx
Thanks Arun, for catching this one!
The mystery of the folder named 'CON'
by Shijaz Abdulla on 03.07.2007 at 19:59An Indian discovered that nobody can create a FOLDER anywhere named as “con”. This is something pretty cool…and unbelievable… At Microsoft the whole Team, including Bill Gates, couldn’t answer why this happened!
Try it out yourself…
I’m sick and tired of reading this over and over again. Earlier, when I was working in Computer World W.L.L Bahrain, our VP was stupid enough to send this out to his whole technical team by email (and afterwards had to get battered with our replies).
So, here’s the story:
Back in the old days, in the dark and dreary world of MS-DOS, there were many I/O devices that were referred to by reserved names in the OS. Whenever users used these words, the OS took them as references for I/O devices.
Some examples of such reserved words are CON, LPT1, LPT2, COM1, PRN, NUL. These words are still reserved even today in Windows, and that’s why you cannot create folders by these names.
So, will we *never* be able to create a folder named ‘CON’?
The answer is certainly not ‘NO’, but it isn’t very straightforward. Try the following command in the Command prompt:
md .\con\
and lo, you have your CON folder! Navigate to that folder in Windows, and you will find that its a real folder named ‘CON’.
Now try deleting that folder! Much to your dismay, you can’t! Unless you type
rd .\con\
Interesting bite, isn’t it?