Best of the blogs: Call it WiTricity, as in the wireless electricity that an MIT-based scientist demonstrated by lighting a light bulb — sans wires. “The hope is that over time, the antennas will be small enough to fit inside a laptop computer, a cell phone or an iPod so that users could recharge their devices while sitting in a special area in an airport, not unlike the hot spots we have today for Wi-Fi,” Ephraim Schwartz explains in this Reality Check post. Green IT: Whereas the hardware and chipmakers have already drawn energy-efficiency lines in the sand, the OS battle is just starting to brew between Linux and Microsoft. “Linux appears to have an advantage at the moment,” Ted Samson reports in Linux, Windows duke it out over energy efficiency. “Microsoft isn’t resting on its laurels, either.” The Linux Foundation, meanwhile, has detailed the Green Linux Initiative, which aims to improve power management, extend battery life of mobile devices and reduce operating costs in the server room. Columnist’s corner: Whether you know it or not, donuts could get you fired. Well, at least that’s almost the experience of this week’s Off the Record author, who worked for a management team that “made it resoundingly clear that we would not be copying desktop shortcuts from the old machines to the new ones,” he writes. “I advised the team against that course of action, explaining how it would lead to a lot of customer dissatisfaction and help desk calls.” Guess what the primary user complaint was once they moved to XP. No, not the lack of donuts. Careers: One reader writes Bob Lewis for advice about what to do when he is scapegoated. Is there a better way than to cut and run? Lewis writes that there is in What’s needed to be effective. Once you’ve informed your boss and, if need be, your boss’s boss, “your responsibility is to continue to do whatever work is assigned to you and to do it well.” Barring that, Lewis offers three options. Technology Industry