obfuscated
thabenksta
<p>Coincidentally, this is my 42nd writeup.</p>
<code>
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
use strict;
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101|59|112|114|105|110|116|32|36|109|59|39";
my $r = join '',map{chr;}split '\|';print `$r`;
</code>
<p>There is more to this than first meets the eye.</p>
<p><b>Update:</b> This my first, I would appriciate some criticism.</p>
-<A HREF="/index.pl?node=thabenksta&lastnode_id=1072">thabenksta</A>
<code>
my $name = 'Ben Kittrell';
$name=~s/^(.+)\s(.).+$/\L$1$2/g;
my $nick = 'tha' . $name . 'sta';
</code>