Careers: Sharing a reader’s “excellent analysis” Bob Lewis posts Lessons from smoke jumpers. As in, those highly-skilled, IT and otherwise, folks who “do very dangerous work under difficult conditions.” But they also bring a downside: adrenaline addiction and messes to be cleaned up. Green IT: While politicians consider it a potential tool for terrorists, Ted Samson writes that the Surui tribe in Brazil hopes that Google Earth will help save rain forests. Specifically, the chief envisions members using satellite Internet connections to access high-resolution images for policing its reservation. Columnist’s corner: Oliver Rist this week has advice for taking the guesswork out of capacity planning. “Paperwork bites,” he begins. In this particular case, Rist is referring not to IT, but to a Ducati motorcycle. But coming back around he points out that, “I get the same way about much of the paperwork associated with running a network.” And so he revs the engine of Microsoft’s System Center Capacity Planner 2007 beta. “For those with big plans for Exchange 2007 and SCOM 2007, it’s definitely worth the playtime.” The news beat: Gateway recalls 14,000 batteries found in its notebook computers. Symantec outgrows its underground nuclear bunker. Dell replaces the displays on nine laptop models. And News Corp. offers up MySpace for a stake in ailing Yahoo. Careers