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So I haven’t been posting enough here, partly owing to my yeoman work at Metroblogging Vancouver and partly because I have been busy with projects.

Right now, just for fun, I’m keeping secrets. Maybe you’ll get to hear some of them later, maybe not.

Here’s a good one: if I had recently learned of a tool that made my ability to search obscure eBay auctions much more effective, should I share it?

The answer is no. So there’s one secret for you (though it’s not much of a secret if you read digg.

Oh, here’s a nice non-secret project:

What you’re seeing is The Lovely One’s laptop connected to The Good Thing, our occasionally evil New Beetle. I’m using a cable bought online to read the trouble codes off the car. This was cheaper than getting the dealership to do the same thing. Problem is with my secondary air injection system, an annoying emissions component. Guess I’d better fix that.

Oh, and here’s something bugging the azelea in our front yard:

insecting it, really. But then it will fly away.