RMG131-News from Mellow Joy

Todays very brief podcast comes from the Mellow Joy coffee shop in Lafayette Louisiana where I'm attending Festival International, an amazing (and free!) 5 day music festival featuring acts from around the world.

Among other news from Apple's shareholder meeting on Thursday was a response from Chairman Steve Jobs to the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition; a group which has been critical of Apple's environmental policies. Chairman Jobs responded that Apple has paid attention to recycling, and has, in the last year alone, recycled over 1500 tons of used computers. Responding to the charge that Apple has sent toxic e-waste to third world countries, Jobs said that Apple only exports ground up plastics which are used to make new computers. This author hopes that in the future, Apple will find an innovative way to package their new computers that doesn't include using large pieces of expanded plastic foam.

Computer reseller CompUSA has announced that most CompUSA reatail stores will host special events around launch of Mac OS X Tiger on the evening of April 29th.