Best of the blogs: Even if you think you’re ready for the time change this weekend, here is a compilation of seven tasks to ensure that nothing slips through even the best laid plans. For starters, revisit your datacenter inventory to know what applications and systems need patching. Another taste: schedule some IT staff to work that day, just in case. Related: Daylight savings time survival guide. Notes from the field: If his personal relationships are any indication the mysterious Mr. Cringely will not miss a moment’s sleep over the new DST — even as the rest of us lose that hour. Microsoft’s tangled web of DST patches, though, serves as “more proof that if you ask Microsoft the time, it will tell you how to break a watch.” Conservapedia claims Wikipedia has a liberal bias to match Joseph Stalin and gravity. I don’t know, perhaps Cringe is just distracted because Anna Nicole Smith cameos with her own version of Subterranean Homesick Blues. Microsoft can’t do the time, Apple store aids in crime.The news beat: Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales says the online encyclopedia is discussing a new policy that would require contributors to verify their credentials and, in a separate story, that his company is aiming to launch an open source search engine later this year. Symantec finds that while image spam is on the rise, unwanted messages carrying adult content are at their lowest rate ever. And SAP’s chief software architect discusses the company’s first on-demand offering, SaaS, and Web services standards, among other topics, in this interview with the IDG News service. Software Development