Vista is the long-awaited successor to Windows XP and it is a major overhaul and upgrade of that operating system. David Pogue has just released the missing manual series of books - Window Vista; The Missing Manual with new look on the operating features.

“Windows Vista: The Missing Manual. When you consider that Microsoft seldom includes more than a quick start guide, this is truly the case of a missing manual”.

Not only is Vista a complete overhaul, it is a version that took over five years to complete. Some claim that in the last two years almost 60 percent of the code has been rewritten. There are massive changes to security as well as to the interface. There are new programs, new explorers and yes, new release levels. And Microsoft is expecting to learn how work with all of these changes with out a manual?

MSN Adcenter has released a keyword forecasting tool that give you details about the number of searches over the past year and it give you forecast for the number of searches in forthcoming months. It can be considered as good keywords tool that provide you precise projections on your traffic and sales volume for the near future.
Also this is big plus that MSN will provide you with data about the demographics of the people who are searching for specific keyword with their  age and gender. This sound good that anyone can use this tool, as it is not limited for MSN AdCenter account holder only.

SEO experts usually recommend to use hook in linkbaiting that not just attack the weakness of others but it should blended with positive and constructive alertness with suitable alternatives especially if you want to create sensation through making others site as a platform. You can also experiment linkbaiting with your own site but the content must have debate and interactive quality that can make it a hot topic. For making your site more link-worthy avoid temptation and initially focus on content that can draw attention on your site from your local niche market.

Also try to develop real relationship with your peers grabbing the opportunity especially when you attend a conference, trade show, training sessions, try to meet and make friendship with many people as possible and keep in touch by communicating with them in regular basis, this is the chance that you can associate with many people, these people can help you when you linkbait.

Bottom-line- To explore over the internet and get worthy backlinks and let people talk about you and your site write something that can create sensation and go for link baiting.

Microsoft Security Advisory has confirmed a new wave of limited “zero-day” attacks was underway, using a code execution flaw in its Microsoft Office desktop productivity suite. They have issued warning to users to be on suspicious especially for Excel files that arrive unexpectedly — even if they come from a co-worker’s e-mail address, the advisory further added although excel files are currently being used to launch the spear phishing attacks, users of other Office applications (Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, etc.) are potentially at risk.”

Linux 2.6.20 has been released after two month continuous development phase. The current release includes two different virtualization implementations: KVM: full-virtualization capabilities using Intel/AMD virtualization extensions and a paravirtualization implementation usable by different hypervisors.

Short overview;

2.6.20 makes linux join to the virtualization trends. This release adds two virtualization implementations: A full-virtualization implementation that uses Intel/AMD hardware virtualization capabilities called KVM (http://kvm.sourceforge.net) and a paravirtualization implementation (http://lwn.net/Articles/194543) that can be used by different hypervisors (Rusty’s lguest; Xen and Vmware in the future, etc),. But this release also adds initial Sony Playstation 3 support, a fault injection debugging feature (http://lwn.net/Articles/209257), UDP-lite support, better per-process IO accounting, relative atime, support for using swap files for suspend users, relocatable x86 kernel support for kdump users, small microoptimizations in x86 (sleazy FPU, regparm, support for the Processor Data Area, optimizations for the Core 2 platform), a generic HID layer, DEEPNAP power savings for PPC970, lockless radix-tree readside, shared pagetables for hugetbl, ARM support for the AT91 and iop13xx processors, full NAT for nf_conntrack and many other things.
Read the list of changes in more details.

If you started a blog with hosted version the big plus you find it is easier for installation & configuration and that pretty much just less headache but the biggest disadvantage that comes from such services is that you are using and promoting someone else domain in hosted version. If you go for self host with your own domain name you can be able to develop your own brand and get benefit of your marketing and SEO efforts.

My point; if you are blogging just for keeping touch with your friends, relative and employees, the hosted version is pretty much good idea but if you are developing a blog for creating a brand of your own business it is precise to host yourself. Apart from branding, if you own a domain name and host separately you get much customization options, You can be able to template it just as you want, and add other plug-in functionality of all sorts, link building, ad placement etc which is limited or nonexistent on the hosted versions.