Eric Case writes on the Blogger Buzz blog about a recent case where a Googler accidentally posted to an official Google blog a post meant for her personal blog. Embarressing? Yes. Silly? Yup. Serious security concern? Uh, no.

Ionut. Alex reports that Google Earth now contains an information layer about the upcoming U.S. midterm elections.

Microsoft’s Gamerscore blog has a response to that crap-filled Sony chart that suggested the PS3 was somehow cheaper than the Xbox 360.

Chris Lanier posts about two cool new Media Center apps.

The Wall Street Journal has an article today about how Google is adjusting its hiring process following years of criticism, as its needs for a ton of more employees have outstripped its desire to put every candidate through hell.

Google has (finally) removed the invite barrier to Orkut, letting anyone with a Google account register for the service.

Windows XP Service Pack 3 won’t show until the first half of 2008, according to Microsoft’s Service Pack Roadmap page.

The Times Of India reports that Google has had trouble finding enough quality talent to hire for its Indian offices.

The New York Times is running an article about Friendster’s woes, and latest attempts to revive itself. Naturally, it begins with Google.

Two stories that have been making the rounds over the weekend:

November 14 is Prematurity Awareness Day, and the March of Dimes would like Google to highlight this fact with a Google Doodle.

Check it: docs.google.com.

TechCrunch already has an overview.

Yahoo is asking users to submit photos, writings, videos, audio, anything they want to contribute to an electronic anthropology project: An internet-based time capsule to show off 2006 to future generations.

Luke Metcalfe writes about how, since Google Code Search allows regular expressions, you can type a string and find out if it can be used as an acronym.

Cyril Paciullo, known as Patchou, lost his Most Valuable Professional standing from Microsoft after complaints that his popular program, Windows Live Messenger Plus, contained AdWare.

Turns out Blogger’s Audioblogger service, where you could post to Blogger by phone, was actually run by Odeo.

Office 2007 has entered the RTM process, and should actually be released to manufacturing in the next few weeks, according to an email from Microsoft.

Have you seen AOL’s OpenRide? It isn’t for everyone, but for a lot of users, OpenRide looks amazing.

Google Germany is running a Doodle in honor of the 16th anniversary of the day East and West Germany became one.

I felt appalled while reading David Parmet’s blog post. Apparently, he met with Rescuecom 18 months ago to discuss some of their expansion plans, which included suing Google mostly in order to drum up publicity.

It’s been many months, so you may have forgotten, but Windows Vista is going to have a bit of a strange rollout.