Simpler tricks but along the same lines have been described on, IIRC The Old New Thing (Raymond Chen's blog for Microsoft) although it's possible it was Michael Kaplan in which case you'd have to dredge the Internet Archive or something because Microsoft deleted Kaplan's blog years ago, then they fired him, and then he died (he had a degenerative disease, although getting fired basically as an exercise in plumping the numbers for the stock market probably isn't good for you either).
