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Shortcut to the Microsoft Knowledge Base
by Victor Agreda, Jr. Apr 13th 2006 at 12:05PM
A long time
ago (in a blog far, far away) I lamented the lack of documentation on Apple's knowledge base. It's gotten better, but
still is nowhere near the comprehensive nature of Microsoft's KB. Granted, MS has a lot more to say since it makes more
tools, but to call their KB labyrinthine is putting it nicely. Worse, just jumping to a particular KB article, even if
you know the specific number (and some messages will give you this). Annoyances Central has a quicker way to
jump to KB articles. It requires IE6, and the TweakUI PowerToy. Essentially you're
just creating a shortcut for the search string. You can do this with any search site, so it doesn't just work for MS's
KB.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
