But Universal is hypocritical.

What a bunch of typical media double talk, do as we say, not as we do. 

All over Sunday Night Football, NBC is touting their “greenness”, and how are they patting themselves on the back for being so eco friendly, they are sending people all over the planet.

As I see it, if they are so concerned about the environment, they wouldn’t be increasing their carbon foot by sending their talking heads all over the world. I’m pretty sure that when these people travel, they don’t travel alone.

They are sending a crew to Australia to cover the fact that there is a drought there, come on isn’t there any qualified broadcasters in Australia that they could use. Then a crew has to got to Iceland, and another to Kenya, and yet another to somewhere in the middle of the ocean.

I just gotta believe that there are qualified english speaking reporters near all the locations they’ll be reporting from, so why not reduce the impact on the planet and use those resources, but I guess there is no real impact, because I’m willing to bet they bought some of those snazzy magic carbon credits for al gore…

Talk about cheap, lame, below the belt marketing sleazery. EMC mails out “promtional” upgrade offers to all GSX customers. We own 8 licenses of GSX 3, which are now replaced by VMware Server, a free product. We spent $2000 per license on a product that became “free” within a year. Still recovering from that bullsh*t, now we get this peace offer to upgrade to Virtual Infrastructure, a new product, for FREE. Check out the email below…

“Upgrade Now” it says. So I click the link. It displays a registration form. No big deal, typical stuff. After filling it out, it progresses (or I should say degresses) to a banner saying “Thank you! A sale representative will contact you shortly to discuss your upgrade plans” and then displays a “Top 10 reasons to upgrade to Virtual Infrastructure” PDF brochure.

I CAN’T WAIT for that poor bastard to call. I’m going to rip his/her ears off. Their only hope to survive is if I haven’t had my coffee before they call. It’s going to be a bloodbath. >:(