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How long it takes for different kind of garbage to be assimiliated back

I do not know if this is true but if it is then its pretty scary. This is how long it takes for items from your garbage to get assimilated back in the ecosystem:
  • "Orange peel (2-5 weeks)
  • Paper bag (1 month)
  • Cigarette butt (up to 5 years)
  • Leather shoe (45 years)
  • Plastic bottle (430 years)
  • Aluminum can (200-500 years)
  • Disposable diaper (550 years)
  • Glass bottle (Approx. 1 million years)
  • Plastic Grocery Bag
  • Styrofoam container (1 million years)
    • If this is indeed true, its reason enough to stop using plastic grocery bags.

    The 1 book you should read about money

    GRS has a great post about the best financial matters books: 25 Essential Books About Money: Financial Wisdom from Your Public Library If you can only read 1 book out of these 25, I will recommend one of the following based on your current situation

    Full list of websites that you can take offline with google gears

    List of web applications that provide at least partial offline functionality to end-user using Google Gears.
    Listed in the order of perceived decreasing complexity of offline implementation:
    1. Zoho Writer and Zoho Mail
      • Word Processor, Email
      • Not transparent.
      • You can access documents stored inside your Zoho account and edit them offline inside the web browser.
      • You can read and compose mail when offline
    2. Gmail :
      • Transparent and automatically detects your are offline.
      • Even has a "flaky connection" mode.
      • Full read-write access to your mail.
      • Even allows access to most gadgets
    3. Wordpress
      • Hosted Blogging Service
      • Transparent and full-access to your posts and pages.
    4. Google Docs
      • Word Processor, Spreadsheets, PDF documents and Presentations
      • Transparent and automatic offline access
      • Read-write access to word processor (no new docs)  and read-only access to spreadsheets and presentations
    5. Remember The Milk
      • Todo List Manager
      • Full read-write access to your tasks. Even allows local search engines to search offline tasks.
    6. Some Things
      • Todo List Manager
      • Full read-write access to your tasks
    7. Autodesk Labs Project Draw
      • create diagrams online
      • the application can run in the offline mode and synch files later when you reconnect
    8. MindMeinster
      • Mind Mapping Tool
      • Need pro account for offline access.
      • Full read-write access
    9. Passpack
      • Password Manager for your online stuff
      • Transparent and full-access to your passwords in offline mode
    10. Paymo
      • time tracker
      • Google Gears added the "ability to work offline and sync the data with the Paymo server once an internet connection is available"
    11. Google Reader
      • Feed Reader
      • Not transparent. You have to tell it in advance that you are going to be offline.
      • Can read and update feeds but not add new feeds
    12. Google Calendar:
      • Transparent but read-only access to your events.
    List of sites that use Google Gears but do not provide significant end-user level offline functionality on desktop:

    Creating a multi-layered backup strategy for mac

    Apple Blog has a good article on how to create a multi-layered backup strategy: http://theappleblog.com/2009/06/05/my-multi-layered-backup-strategy/ Some software worth considering are:
    • Time Machine or Superduper! for daily painless backup. this is your first line of defense
    • JungleDisk or Mozy for the off-site backup (just in case time machine is corrupted or your house is on fire. This is your reserve backup
    • Dropbox or Syncplicity to sync files to other machines on your network (good to have a backup of "critical" files). This is for the worst case
    There is also CrashPlan that is a little expensive but can take care of all these three facets.