I’ve got a new job at Pivotal Labs, and will be doing any technical blogging over there.

This blog I will try to do more outdoorsy blogging, as well as reviews. Stay tuned!

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When I went to the url on the flier I found not only the survey, but a whole blog dedicated to “Sport nutrition for rock climbing”! Sweet sauce! This is the first online resource that I’ve found for climbing nutrition outside of various informal forum posts. There aren’t may blog posts yet, but what’s there is gold. I’ve learned about oxidative stress, good practices for hydration, and recipes for great climbing meals.

The blog’s author, Krystal Merrells, does a great job at explaining everything. Often times I find that when experts in the nutrition field start seriously talking about nutritional concepts, everything quickly goes over my head. This is not the case here. While Krystal does have a recently publish research paper titled “Following 2 diet-restricted male outdoor rock climbers: impact on oxidative stress and improvements in markers of cardiovascular risk” that goes into these crazy details of nutrition and climbing, her blog makes everything understandable to even noobs like me.

Check out her blog, and if you find the information useful at least take her survey. Keep up the good work Krystal!

This will actually work anywhere you can get JavaScript to run. In the case of WordPress, there’s issues getting JavaScript to run directly in a post. So what I did was created a contact page. Within the contact page I put:

If you'd like to contact me about anything at all, feel free to email
me at <span id="foo">test</span> or send me an IM on google talk.

<script language="javascript">
    //<code>

    a = ["mai", "lto", "benjamin", "lee", "smith", "gm", "ail", "com"];//
    b = a[0]+a[1]+":"+a[2]+"."+a[3]+"."+a[4]+"@"+a[5]+a[6]+"."+a[7];//
    c = a[2]+"."+a[3]+"."+a[4]+"@"+a[5]+a[6]+"."+a[7];//
    document.getElementById("foo").innerHTML = "<a href=\""+b+"\">"+c+"";//
    //</code>
</script>

When the page loads, the contents of the span will be replaced with my email address. My email address is pieced together from the contents of an array, which I think obfuscates my email enough such that spiders (unless they’ve started executing JavaScript) won’t be able to understand.

There are also a couple of other hacks going on here to get it to work in WordPress. The code tags only exist to keep wordpress from touching the JavaScript syntax and escaping things like the greater than and less than characters. The code tags themselves are commented out, so that the JavaScript won’t worry about them being inside of the script tags. And at the end of every line of JavaScript there is an empty line comment, to escape anything that WordPress puts at the end of a line. If you’re not dealing with WordPress, these things can be omitted.

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Pretty slick!

<pre style=”width:500px;height:400px;border:solid 1px #ccc;overflow:scroll;”>
paste code here
</pre>

This will create a nice little border around your code, along with scroll bars, AND preserve the whitespace. This solution brought to you by the wordpress forums.