Best of the blogs: There’s nothing quite like finding, and getting stuck in, a new kind of limbo. Save maybe when that involves trying to wipe Vista SP1 off your system, only to realize it’s better to abandon all hope. “Sometimes I just can’t win,” sighs Randy Kennedy in My Vista SP1 nightmare. It began with his trying to get Ubuntu to behave on a Dell notebook, a problem that got so bad he had to give up his quest for full-time migration away from Windows. “Then this week I get bit by an even nastier bug in Vista SP1.” So he tried to uninstall the service pack. That’s what landed him in this purgatory — begging someone, anyone, to fix the ACPI suspend-resume bug in Gutsy Gibbon so he can get out of Windows altogether. The only option left? Reinstall. “There goes my weekend.” InfoWorld News Quiz: Test your news knowledge with ten tough questions. Bet you don’t who the AT&T Avengers are, or the Verizon Vigilantes! You don’t know tech. What’s that? You think you do? Then prove it. Related: Test your geek IQ. Notes from the field: Cringe comes through, as he does every Friday, with another geek week in review (this just might help you with the aforementioned quiz; no promises, though). First up: ABC, the acronym, not the network, and no I don’t mean anything to do with bubblegum. Rather, it’s G-men, G-women and Google’s Android Developer Challenge. Next: telecom before the storm, and virtual reality, Dutch-style. The news beat: Oracle and BEA are under scrutiny as the market slumps amid overall economy concerns. Dell says it will acquire Everdream and its on-demand software and managed desktop services offerings. Microsoft delays WinHEC, its Windows Hardware Engineering Conference, by six months. And an Abu Dhabi firm takes a $622 million stake in AMD which the chipmaker will use for R&D and manufacturing. Software Development