Careers: To change your professional life — and personal, I suppose, but that’s another matter altogether and this is, after all, a technology site — you’ve got to step out of line and take a chance, asserts Nick Corcodilos, in this Ask the headhunter post. “You don’t have to be an ‘uber-geek’ to do it. But you can’t remain ‘normal’ either, because (to quote Bruce Cockburn), the trouble with normal is it only gets worse.” Yes, Mr. Corcodilos has an example to back it up, too. Something about Barbie Ferrari’s when he was in college. “Offering to solve problems without being asked would pay off for me again and again throughout my life. It also earned me friends in higher places.”Best of the blogs: It’s become clear in the last several months that myriad InfoWorld readers have a beef with what Symantec has done to the Norton product line. “Now one reader is wondering if the same won’t someday be the case with Symantec’s acquisition of Veritas, particularly after the licensing fiasco he’s just experienced with Backup Exec,” Ed Foster reports. Backup Exec, you see, came with eight pages of certificates, but none of the license or serial numbers corresponded with his software. Licensing logjam holds back Veritas customer. The news beat: IBM and Cisco are in cahoots again, this time offering up a managed service for crisis response, that focuses on various functions including continuity, network operability and recovery, and IP communications. Secure64 creates a minimalist operating system capable of transforming an Itanium box into a DNS appliance. And thanks to plentiful rumors folks are whispering about a possible Google phone, but why would Google make a phone anyway? Related: Talkback and have your say about the Google phone. One writer envisions something of a post-apocalyptic all-Google-all-the-time world. Careers