The Engineered Boulderer

Over the Summer I had a longish break from climbing. It all started back in the Autumn last year when I was in Fontainebleau where I ended up injuring on of my fingers. When I returned to climbing around the start of the new year (2007) I promptly got another injury. Feeling a little disillusioned, together with the stress about moving, I decided to take a longer break.

Finally, just about a month ago, I started climbing again. After moving I usually climb at PK which is located better than NKK. Although I have climbed at PK before, the feel is quite different from NKK. However, the biggest change, after returning to climbing, came this weekend when I went to Kjuge again. Although I feel safer and able to do harder problems indoors, climbing outside is for me where the real fun is at.

Incredibly enough I had a hard time finding people to come along. In the end Truls called the night before and asked if I was still going, this was totally cool for two reasons, 1. I wouldn’t be going alone, and 2. Truls is an all-round nice person and an awesome climber.

We took off in slightly overcast, but totally still, weather at 9:30 Saturday morning. As we came closer to Kjuge, however, the weather cleared up and I have to say, I have never seen Kjuge this beautiful.

I ended up climbing some nice problems. It was nice to feel the rock under my fingers again. Unfortunately, my fingers have very little skin left on them, but that will change once I have punished them enough. At least I’m going to Kjuge again next week to see if they don’t have a little more to give.

Usually the comment spam I receive is a weird mixture of sex and porn spiced up with different kinds of medication. On some entries, however, the comment spam stays pretty much on target. In my specific case I am of course referring to my sudoku entry. There are comments on it that refer to sudoku sites around the web. These sites of course profit from visitors, and that’s why I refer to them as comment spam.

I haven’t been very consistent in my handling. As you can see there are still some of these comments on the entry, but I have also deleted a handful. Have any of you experienced this kinds of spam? And how did you deal with it? Did you delete indiscriminately, or leave it so other might get something out of the links left behind?

Inspired by the sidenotes, or asides or whatever, of Michael and Joen I decided to hack together my own version. It’s a way for me to throw thoughts onto my blog. They will evolve, and slowly (maybe) spread to places other than the front page. The thoughts themselves are normal entries and show up as normal entries everywhere but the front page (so far).

Update: For the full benefit you should view the front page in either Safari or Firefox, at least until Internet Explorer starts supporting the :before and :after pseudo elements.