Best of the blogs: Waxing reflective, Matt Asay writes, “what a blessing it is to be ignorant of just how hard some tasks really are, and to have it be too late to turn back once we’re well into them.” In this post he’s referring, of course, to open source projects, almost all of which, Asay writes, were begun “on a hunch and some free time.”Notes from the field: Robert X. starts things off with a pop quiz involving not just Windows browsers but also Paris Hilton. “The new Safari beta brings some nifty features to Windows surfers, along with security holes big enough to swallow Steve Jobs’ Mercedes,” Cringe writes. 18 of them, in fact — security flaws, that is, not Benzes. “Safari’s biggest claim is that its rendering engine is faster than the rest; in my own extremely unscientific tests I found it a smidge quicker than Firefox, but nothing worth changing your boxers over.” Surfin’ Safari. The news beat: Apple says that its iPhone requires an iTunes account in addition to the AT&T Wireless subscription before the device can be activated. Storage titan EMC inks its first pact with an Indian outsourcer. And despite reports to the contrary, Intel says it will not change its pricing for the Chinese market. Technology Industry