Careers: The question of what jobs are most promising in today’s market is legitimate, to be certain. But the asking reveals a lot about a person. “It tells me they’re motivated externally rather than internally. They want what’s hot, but they’re not hot themselves,” Nick Corcodilos writes in this Ask the headhunter post. “If you want to be hot yourself, get better at the thing you like doing. Be one of the best. Be so good that when someone needs what you do, they think of you first.” To that end, the better question to ask is what ‘track’ in IT will make you hot, he adds, because “what’s hot in the job market is ephemeral. Tomorrow it will be something else.” Notes from the field: Another Friday, another geek week in review. That’s right, and this time Cringe is harping on the planet-overtaking army of robots Microsoft is currently creating, the 411 on 419, hackers attacking Al Gore’s Web site and … none other than SatLav. That’s a service you text to find the nearest toilet. What can I say? InfoWorld News Quiz: Think you’re up to date on technology’s current events? Prove it right here. The first question involves MoveOn.org, Facebook, sheep and Barack Obama. Another one has Microsoft in Siberia. Give yourself 10 points for each correct answer and, yes, partial credit will be given. The news beat: Google asks for help finding malicious Web sites and posts an online form for surfers to report them. With an eye on competitor Lenovo, Dell plans to expand in China, moving beyond the 45 cities where it now has a presence — an announcement that comes as market researcher iSuppli says that HP and Acer beat up on Dell in Q3 laptop rankings. And LG insists that the flaming cell phone battery did not kill a Korean worker but, instead, it was an industrial accident that did. Careers