Category: Reflections
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(mt) Media Temple
In 2013 GoDaddy acquired (mt) Media Temple, the web host provider I used to host my website since 2005. I had used GoGaddy previously and did not have a good experience. Therefore, I decided to find a new web host. Apparently a decade was not long enough. (mt) Media Temple operations were absorbed into GoDaddy…
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La crainte du temps perdu
While reading Mary Read’s SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, I was transported to my brief time at St. John’s College. A decade ago I struggled to bridge the intellectual, cultural and ideological gap I perceived between a Hellenic and a Christian Western civilisation. While I endeavoured to span the chasm, my cohorts made the transition…
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On Last.fm
I have been scrobbling since 2005. I have never used Last.fm to discover new music or exploited its social network features. Instead, I use Last.fm to log the music tracks I play. It is an unobtrusive process, for the most part. And ever since I stopped using iTunes entirely and switched to Spotify, the activity of tracking my…