I checked out a book yesterday, from my local library branch. Dan Brown’s The Secret of Secrets was up front on the “Lucky Day” display. It was on my short list and I figured that beat the price of a Kindle ebook new-release. Also, I read it cover to cover. The author is reminding me of Alan Moore, in the... 1-1.hjalmer.com

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I checked out a book yesterday, from my local library branch. Dan Brown’s The Secret of Secrets was up front on the “Lucky Day” display. It w...

I look forward to Explorator News every week. Among other special interests, I also am interested in archeology and anthropology

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explorator 28.15 ~ April 12, 2026

Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Edward Rockstein, Kurt Theis, John McMahon, Barnea Selavan, Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri, Hernan Astudillo, Ri...

Thinking a lot about data portability again. Worried about the future. Worried about businesses deciding I don’t affordable electronics any longer. Worried I may not be able to keep using the brand of my choice.

I have an old MacBook Pro that has a failing battery. Or something. It’s failing in such a way that the battery discharges while operating and connected to power. No matter which charger, no matter which port the charger is connected to. When the battery goes to 2% it shuts down—again while connected to... 1-1.hjalmer.com

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I have an old MacBook Pro that has a failing battery. Or something. It’s failing in such a way that the battery discharges while operating and co...

Even at my standing desk, my watch tells me it’s time to stand

Well, I did it again. Killed an Ubuntu install through experimentation. Re-installing.

A lesson I have to keep re-learning is when to allow notifications, or when to supply my email address. As a person whose attention can easily be re-directed, I have to help myself.

When you Google information and find another sub-Reddit to join

"That’s maybe the most important thing. Is to shake off this erroneous notion that life is there and you’re just gonna live in it, versus embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it. I think that’s very important and however you learn that, once you learn it, you’ll want to change life and make it better, cause it’s kind of messed up, in a lot of ways. Once you learn that you’ll never be the same again. Steve Jobs"

I love any article claiming x or y or z product is a MacBook killer, while being about a device that doesn’t run MacOS.

I’m not fried, but today I’m supercalifragicrispy around the edges.

Ah, “Progress” I’m in IT. This is a metaphor and all metaphors fail. Progress bars or status messages introduce a wierd alternate time, feels like travel when you have never been at this particular departure gate before and have never been to the destination, before. There are some landmarks on your... 1-1.hjalmer.com

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Ah, “Progress” I’m in IT. This is a metaphor and all metaphors fail. Progress bars or status messages introduce a wierd alternate time, feels...

I don’t know why but every now and then I get fair to partly obsessed with some part of linux. For a while my Lenovo laptop of choice wouldn’t update to the Ubuntu 26.4 beta release from 25.10. I’m that guy. Today I used a daily build ISO and got it running. Feels like a victory.

And then revisiting the topic of the half-century, Apple incorporated 50 years ago on April 1st.

A weird thing I have noted, post OS 26.2, is that Shortcut automations for pulling up a note (with the day and date in the title) no longer works. The same automation still works as it always has on older Macs that don’t support OS26. It seems to have been reported, but wasn’t addressed in 26.3 or in the... 1-1.hjalmer.com

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A weird thing I have noted, post OS 26.2, is that Shortcut automations for pulling up a note (with the day and date in the title) no longer works. ...

I remember when Valley Fair first opened. And this year will be their 50th. And that makes me feel… not very young at all

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I’m gathering, based on results, that a note’s Title in Apple Notes, and it’s Name (with respect to Shortcuts and automation) may not be the same data points. Suddenly an automation that has worked well for more than a year is returning surprises. The automation seems simple enough, but no.

Getting really odd returns on iPadOS 26.4 from an automation designed to retrieve Notes with the current day and month in the title. This is different from iPadOS 26.3 where Notes simply crashed while the automation was running. Up through 26.2, I didn’t have issues with the exact same tool.

"Since the advent of the internet, section 230 has been a target for people that want to control your speech and infringe on your First Amendment rights." /TechDirt

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An 18-Million-Subscriber YouTuber Just Explained Section 230 Better Than Every Politician In Washington

Over the years, we’ve written approximately one million words explaining why Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act is essential to ho...

Sun goes up. Sun goes down. Weather happens. Seasons change. My emotions are mine.