When I started ARC-1, there were already MCP servers for SAP’s ADT APIs. My main goal was enterprise-ready access: a service hosted on SAP BTP, with central control over who can use it and what they are allowed to do. For a team, that means being able to give some users read access and others permission to make changes, restrict where changes are allowed, and manage the service centrally. ARC-1’s authorization model combines those controls with the SAP user’s backend permissions. That has been…

Tuesday 27th October 2026 It’s finally happened. After years of controversy with Westminster Council and others objecting, Mayor Kahn’s vision for a traffic free Oxford Street, first launched in his 2016 manifesto, finally got under way yesterday when the 900 yard middle section, between Great Portland Street and Selfridges, of the 1.2 mile long road was pedestrianised with not even cycles allowed to use the road. I blogged about this proposal two years ago expressing concern at the impact on…

Guest Post by: David Tonaszuck A reflection on the Gospel of Matthew 13:24-30 Dear Friends in Christ, There was once a boy, not much older than fourteen, who wandered the dusty back roads near a small farming town at the turn of the century. He was an orphan, left to fend for himself in a … Continue reading Rest for the Weary: Trusting Jesus to Lighten Our Burdens The post Loving God by Loving Those Closest to Us first appeared on The Simple Catholic. The post Loving God by Loving Those Closest…

These Cran-Apple Spice Muffins are everything we love about fall baking in one cozy treat! Unsweetened applesauce, tart cranberries, warm cinnamon and crunchy toasted pecans come together to create moist and tender muffins that are perfect for breakfast, afternoon coffee breaks, or tucking into lunch boxes. Easy to make and filled with wholesome flavour, these muffins are a delicious way to celebrate apple season and cranberry season all at once. I have a few of those old supermarket cooking…

Donald Trump Is Accused of Rape... Again Yesterday, the Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee released a report covering what they have learned, from their various investigations, about the Epstein files, and Donald Trump's presence therein. And the big news is that yet another woman has accused Trump of having raped her. Click here for full story

A couple of weeks ago the Clicks Beauty Playground tickets went live on AirDosh. My friend asked me to get her a ticket. I thought it was going to be a simple process, log in, select ticket and pay. Instead, I spent three hours stuck in a waiting room during my lunch break. They were about 30,000 people ahead of me and, unsurprisingly, I didn't end up getting the ticket. This experience made me question whether waiting rooms were the most efficient and fairest way to sell tickets to events in…

By David Tuller, DrPH In Norway this week, three major patient advocacy organizations—the Norwegian ME Association, the Norwegian Covid Association, and ME Parents—are planning a demonstration outside the country’s parliament in Oslo, the capital. Their main demand: a separate official guideline for ME/CFS. The event on Wednesday, October 28th, from 3-4 pm, follows an October […]

Anthropic: At Anthropic, coding is no longer the bottleneck to building systems or doing research. Claude is able to autonomously iterate on research loops, micro-optimize complex programs, and build new services from the ground up at a speed and scale we haven’t seen before. The bottleneck, now, is all of the developer infrastructure built for human scale: source control, builds, and CI. In May 2026, Anthropic averaged around 2,500 code changes merged per day; as of September, we merged over…

🏀 We weren’t on the court during a breaktoday and the Nuggets lost by more than 20 points to lackluster GSW. Coincidence? I think not!

Heads up: your browser doesn’t support customizable selects yet, so the “after” demos below look like ordinary selects. That’s also exactly what your visitors would see in this browser. To see the difference, open this page in Chrome or Edge. There are multiple articles about appearance: base-select and how you can use it. We finally can style a select. The bigger change is what an option can hold. Until now, an option was one line of plain text, so everything a person needed to decide had to…

Tables have been part of the HTML since some of its earliest days. In March 1995, Netscape Navigator version 1.1 premiered with support for tables – the first browser to do so. The syntax for table markup is well known. <table> wraps the table, <thead> contains the table’s header row, and is full of <th> elements which hold each header cell content, <tbody> contains the table’s body rows, <tr> holds an individual table row, and <td> is a cell of table data within a row. Then <colgroup> and…

It's been a very hectic time here since returning from the TCM Classic Cruise last week, but hopefully things are now starting to settle down!I have many fun things to share about my recent film-related travels, including the Lone Pine Film Festival and the TCM Classic Cruise, as well as pending film and book reviews. A lot of fun things have been going on!As a segue into this review, one of the movies I most enjoyed on the TCM Classic Cruise was a screening of NIGHT CROSSING (1982), which I…

Currently reading: Gravity’s rainbow by Thomas Pynchon 📚 I know literally nothing about this, not the plot, characters, symbolism, reputation, nothing. Just heard it was good, so here we go.

Finished reading: Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse 📚 Fantastic. I wish I’d read this when I was younger.

Remember when I went to see "My Neighbour Totoro"? I quickly became obsessed with the CatBus, but not so much I'd pay £40 for a plush version that didn't look that great to me. Instead, I dug around the internet for a garage production model, and found this one from (appropriately enough for me) Nom Nom Figures. At just over 10cm tall, it's a nice size. There isn't room in my cabinet for anything much bigger, and this is going on display!A few days after ordering, a modest cardboard box…

Work was ok, though I felt kinda sad. My coworker who I played magic with a couple times will be leaving in a couple weeks. He wasn't my favorite person in the world, but he was alright, and I talked to him semi-regularly at work. Things were nicer afterwards though. I stopped at the grocery store and got snacks and lunchmeat and a cheese I wanna try (havarti with dill), and some chocolate syrup for chocolate milk! I've been relaxing and I made some nice food for tomorrow (a Sausage, Bacon, and…

“Anyone who says the artist’s field is all answers and no questions has never done any writing or had any dealings with imagery. . . . You are confusing two concepts: answering the questions and formulating them correctly. Only the latter is required of an author.” What little I’ve ever known and understood seems to be dissolving. I can still name all the presidents, in order, and the capitals of every state. But I haven’t a clue as to AI, the midterm elections or what to do about Russia. There…

The Banksy exhibition we went to last week was far more than a showing of that one artist. The number of other street artists represented ran to double figures, most of them unknown to me. Wefail opened a pop-up shop in Colchester a year or two ago, and some of the artwork is still visible, but I don't think anyone else has had artwork displayed locally. The variety and artistic talent on display

A follow-up to yesterday’s post about Upstairs at Eric’s. Growing up it looks like I was about 10 miles from the Record Rack in Montrose in Houston, where the good dance records were. This was no random, lucky find. This was the place to actually get great records. I found out about it in ninth grade, and before I think I was going to two different Sound Warehouses before, one near Memorial City Mall and one off Westheimer. Both like super treacherous bike rides when I think about it. But I was…

I am not sure if it is the right strategy for Apple to release two small tablets – iPad mini and iPhone Duo – that have the word “Premium” stamped all over their price tags. I guess the base iPad is still around. I am also not sure how much lowering of prices Apple can do if it sells a base iPad that has a smaller screen. Two major components, memory and storage, are expensive nowadays, regardless of screen size. But I do wish Apple try to target a lower price. With all the premium stuff thrown…

It’s not just new devices that Apple will be unveiling this week. Updates to all the Apple OSes are also out in the public. Adam Engst, TidBITS, has compiled all the improvements into a single page: The marquee changes affect Siri AI. It can now remember past conversations, draw on more of your personal data, and work in more languages. Other broad changes include context-aware suggestions in Messages, Shared Albums improvements in Photos, a Sound Glow light show and Mac audio output for…

It's easier and safer than ever to sail the sevens seas for ill-gotten content of all kinds, as long as you know what you're doing. It's not always clear what's safe or reliable, so here's my tried and true years-long self-hosted setup for downloading and consuming multimedia, and where to get the loot.

How would I describe this blog? How would I categorize it? What is it about? I try to participate in various communities around the small web, in things like Blaugust , or Pixel Area , or webrings, or blogrolls. When I sign up for them there is usually a field to describe my blog and say what it is about. What is it about…? I usually end up describing it as a personal website. If there is a discrete list of categories that is ususally the best fitting one. After all, it isn’t dedicated to one…

There's an ad going around in Michigan, nominally in support of Democratic candidate Abdul El-Sayed, that's generating quite its share of controversy in a race where there's concern that El-Sayed may not be able to lock down support from the normally stalwart-blue Jewish community.The ad comes from Rebellion PAC, which is fronted by left-wing political commentator Cenk Uygur. It depicts a couple in a supermarket saying they cannot afford groceries because they have to set money aside “for…

“A temporary shelter from the static” is the title of a new live set from Thomas Ouf, who has joined the expansive ranks of YouTube modular synth streamers, recording himself playing ambient music out in nature on a portable unit. He situated himself at Le Clos de Sannes near Cucuron, France, and let the video and audio record for just under a quarter of an hour. It’s the first in a planned series of videos where, as Ouf explains: “I set up my modular synthesizer (and more gear) in places I…

What is he doing with his right hand? Last session, the party began its assault on Strahd's domain, hoping to find the last of the items necessary to wormhole out of this hellscape with Trimia's Catalogue. We explored the Larders of Ill Omen (basement) and the parts of the main floor accessible from the front door. We begin this session moving up from the basement into a section of the main floor that's cut off from the others. We open the door and immediately run into a zombie golem, easily…

My son loves 4X4 vehicle. He knows these vehicles so well that he can tell me the model and its history by looking at its side profile. He dreams of restoring an old Defender. I told him that since he already knows what he wants, he should start pursue that dream of owning one. There is nothing wrong to chase after a dream that seems to be far and impossible. What is important is to take one step and followed by another. Sometimes he may have to move away from that dream to get closer to it.…

Welcome to this week's edition of Top Ten Tuesday which is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. This week is a Halloween Freebie, so I decided to choose some suitably scary books:Read more »

Swirling seas of milky white twist and twirl like strange and distant galaxies in the far corners of outer space. As you grab a rushed coffee break in the chatty workplace cafeteria or cutlery-clinking dining hall, just stare deeply into your chipped ceramic telescope and enjoy the two-second escape from reality to watch those floating clouds mix and melt deep into the swirling darkness. AWESOME! Ready for more awesome? Get brand-new daily awesome things straight to your inbox: Photo from: here…

So today's review might not fit this year's theme perfectly but I've really been wanting to review Tauraton and I usually have at least one Masters of the Universe toy on the countdown. If you don't keep up to the minute with Masters of the Universe, you might be wondering who this guy is. Fret not; he's actually a new character that's part of the Power of Grayskull subset being sold exclusively through Mattel Creations. Tauraton was created by Axel Gimenez and Roy Juarez for the packaging of…