Blackhat SEO – Esrun

WTF America

What the hell is going on in the U.S? The amount of people being arrested for doing pretty much nothing and then being accused of all sorts of “terrorism” related crimes is just madness.

It’s at the point now where I would actually feel scared to visit America because you don’t know if you’ll make it back to your own country! “You’re under arrest for carrying a device capable of detonating a bomb”… No it’s just my laptop.

America in general just seems to be on edge and wanting to throw as many people in jail as possible, shaping the country to exactly how the fat cats want it.

All I can say is that I’m glad I don’t live in America right now..

Kitesurfing

Most people who know me will know I like to spend my free time doing exciting stuff… rally driving, paragliding, kite surfing… anything where there is a bit of excitement involved really!

I usually go abroad a couple times a year kitesurfing because it’s so much nicer abroad. The weather is hotter, the wind is more reliable and the sea is much cleaner and warmer! But now and then I like to take the kites out locally although generally not in the cold dirty UK sea :p

We were using a 10m kite with 30m lines.

We started today by the coast and my friend kept moaning about it being too windy and dangerous but I wouldn’t agree and we carried on setting up. The launch was sketchy at best and he was right, it was FAR too windy! I was holding the kite above my head which is where there is generally no power but it was lifting me into the air and holding me there! I asked him to hold onto me and it was lifting both of us! I have to admit, at this point I did start getting a little nervous and started to shout “GET IT OFF ME!” referring to where the kite hooks onto the harness you have to wear.. luckily we managed to disconnect it and the kite crashed down to the ground.

After this we decided to relocate to a less windy place and it was much safer although there were some very odd rising winds to start with.

Edit: Oh and usually you have a safety release system which lets the power lines go slack and therefore if you get into trouble you can make the kite loose power instantly… I just haven’t got around to setting that up yet!

Anyway got some cool pics

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Youtube Fun

A good few months back I was playing around with youtube and within a very short time I found a little way to have some fun with it. I didn’t intend to publish it but since someone else I spoke to about this has decided to go further with it and ignore me I’m going to throw it out there.

Go into your account settings on youtube and then click on channel design. You will see a box where you can enter a background image URL. In there you can actually enter any url which will be executed whenever someone views your channels home page. Although it needs to end in a valid image format. For example you couldn’t use the url http://www.onlinehoster.com/blog/index.php but you can use the url http://www.onlinehoster.com/blog/index.php?gif which will essentially do the exact same thing! For example you could make it so that if someone viewed the page they would automatically be subscribed to your channel without even knowing so by using the URL http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=youtube-username&gif

There are so many things you can do with this so lets see how long before we see a nice youtube worm spreading :p