And just what are we looking for? Well, here’s what I want:

Be funny: Not only must you be able to write (which is also a big deal), but have a sense of humor about it.

Be knowledgeable about tech: You gotta know your stuff.

Be experienced: If you’ve been writing for sometime with no recognition in sight, then get on the ground floor of a growing tech blog.

Be of age: Over 21 is ideal, but if you’re an 18-year-old phenom, then we’d want you.

So, if you want to be famous and work for the best boss eva (me), then apply by sending an e-mail my way at robert.summa@destructoid.com.

At Nextlust, we are committed to providing our readers with the most fancy technology available at our fingertips. Unfortunately, that usually means selling your family to a loan shark and hiding in a third world country until you can lease them back. That said, tonight’s maintenance will be the first of a series of upgrades you’ll experience over the course of the following weeks. It may result in a very frustrating experience this evening, but we should have the situation under control into the late hours of the night. We apologize for the carnage you are soon about to experience as I attempt to debug my own PHP. God help us all.

Tonight’s site design is brought to you in large by the letters L.T.

With Windows Vista’s imminent arrival tomorrow, the Toronto Star has an article discussing all the legal fine print in the Vista Service Agreement’s terms and conditions. If half of what the author states is true, we’ll all have traveled 23 years back in time, all the way back to 1984.  I wish I were making these up, but here are some of the lowlights of what the terms and conditions give Microsoft:

- “… granting Microsoft the right to regularly check the legitimacy of the software and holds the prospect of deleting certain programs without the user’s knowledge”

- “ … (granting) Microsoft the right to revalidate the software or to require users to reactivate it should they make changes to their computer components.” Like when you install that DirectX 10 video card that they want you to own.

- “Windows Defender (Microsoft’s own anti-virus/adware software) will, by default, automatically remove software rated ‘high’ or ’severe,’ even though that may result in other software ceasing to work or mistakenly result in the removal of software that is not unwanted.”

The article tells of other insidious details. The devil truly is in there. If what John Carmack says is true about DX10, count me out of Vista for a long time.