The reason was that they thought the unit was so ‘minute’ (small) and so the word minute stuck and when they further divided a minute into 60 parts, the new parts were of ’second’ order of minuteness and over time they called the seconds…
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Write About The Solutions You Find; it’s good for SEO too
I ran into some issues yesterday and was searching for a solution and I was surprised by so many forum posts like this:
Thanks everyone for helping me out but I found the solution yesterday!
That’s it?! It would be nice if users would also take a few extra minutes to write about how they did it.
I get a lot of traffic to this blog and it’s because I write about these little solutions and surprisingly so many people are interested in them too. I don’t sell any ads or don’t have any sort of PPC on here and the only reason I did it was to help others and also keep my collection somewhere I can go back too.
But I was very surprised by the amount of traffic it started to bring to me, so many people who have the same problems are searching for most of the titles on here.
So however small your problem seems, THERE ARE people who have the same problem and searching for a solution every day.
And again, for me, it wasn’t about traffic but it’s bringing a lot of traffic, even more than a lot of our older websites that we also did SEO for and this proves again that the best SEO strategy is to write good content…
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Basic threading in JavaScript; multiple threads of execution in JavaScript
I was searching the web yesterday for this and didn’t really find a simple way of doing this and suddenly, I remembered something.
It’s extremely simple, someone could build on it with all sorts of features but for now, here is an example:
http://images.code-head.com/code/javascript/js-threads.html
As you can see there are two counters, one is counting up and the other down simultaneously.
Here is the start_thread function:
function thread_start(callback) { setTimeout(callback, 1); return true; }
The trick is that setTimeout *does not* block the execution 
I hope this helps someone
Web History Book; Find Out Who Owned Your Domain!
So many people might not know that there is a service that is saving web pages since 1996 and is like a history book of websites.
The following pages might load slow, be patient.
You can see the old Facebook:
http://web.archive.org/web/20040212031928/http://www.thefacebook.com/
Facebook started as thefacebook.com because facebook.com was taken and you can see here what was on facebook.com:
http://web.archive.org/web/20000823042335/http://www.facebook.com/
They bought facebook.com in 2005 for $200,000!!!
Here you can see how simple Yahoo looked like back in 1996:
http://web.archive.org/web/19961017235908/http://www2.yahoo.com/
Microsoft:
http://web.archive.org/web/19961020014044/http://www.microsoft.com/
(Pretty good for 1996 though)
Or baby Google:
http://web.archive.org/web/19981111184551/http://google.com/
Google, same year, 1996:
http://web.archive.org/web/19981202230410/http://www.google.com/
Here is Digg:
http://web.archive.org/web/20041211042536/http://digg.com/
And twitter:
http://web.archive.org/web/20061006030354/http://twitter.com/
You can also see here that some guy owned code-head.com but he gave up on it:
http://web.archive.org/web/20010719161538/http://www.code-head.com/
As you probably know by now the site is archive.org.
Enjoy
Happy New Year
Happy new year everyone and I hope this will be a great new year full of great things for you.
Did you know the new year was delayed for 1 second?
Apparently earth is slowing down turning around it’s axis
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas everyone
Problems with Google AdSense
I use AdSense on 1 of my websites and a while back I discovered some things about this service from Google.
One thing that I think is awful and shows how big corporates ONLY care about money was that I knew a website that was banned (black listed) by Google because they were “violating Google’s terms of services” by helping people buy and sell text link ads and now when I search for the name of the site, it doesn’t show up in normal search results. The messed up part is that this particular website bought AdWords ads and their name shows up in sponsored links section right on the top of the search results.
This means 2 things: 1 – Google doesn’t care much about what you do when you pay, 2 – You can BUY the first spot on Google SERPs!!!
What they could do is to check the URLs against their banned list but…
The other thing about AdSense is this: Have you ever clicked on an AdSense link with confidence? have you ever seen anything valuable in those links?
Many of them are links that take you to irrelevant pages and many of the people who buy these keywords have so much money that they want the traffic in anyway they can, by bidding on keywords that have nothing to do with their pages.
This could be very bad, you are sending your visitors away with AdSense in the first place, but sadly you are sending them to pages that are not good.
It’s unfortunate but it’s what it is for now.
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Hamid Alipour is a partner in Codehead, LLP with his wife, Tess. Hamid speaks 12 markup and programming languages [Yes, 12: PHP, CSS, Ajax, JavaScript, HTML/XHTML, Java, Python, C/C++, ASP, Visual Basic, Scheme and Action Script]; has a penchant for solving the unsolvable; an affinity for clean, hand-written code and is a Zend Certified 
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