Columnists’ corner: When non-technical managers make technical decisions, IT people always pay the price. That certainly is the case in Off the Record — a tale in which our writer reveals how he kept the servers from bringing him down when they crashed and burned. Clue: Think mortgage, not murder. Best of the blogs: Dave Rosenberg is speaking at the Desktop Linux Summit in late April and, in the spirit of community, has decided to open source his content topics, take all suggestions and follow whatever path people would like, he vows in this post. Just don’t ask him to go down the ‘unconference path,’ he says. Security: A pair of new Web sites enable users to locate and report phishing scams. Microsoft, meanwhile, opens its IE bug database to let users alert the company to browser flaws. The news beat: Microsoft joins a group that takes part in the ISO voting process to standardize OpenDocument Format, a move critics believe is the company’s attempt to stall adoption of ODF. Former Clarent executives get indicted for securities fraud, and face the possibility of prison time. And Cognos unveils an enterprise search engine that lives behind the firewall and ranks results by relevance. Technology Industry