Most people who know Phil are already informed, but I feel it’s important to say something here. Except I don’t know, haven’t known what to say ever since I heard.
Phil, you will be missed.

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This story from Durham’s Independent Weekly is an interesting look at the implications of posting personal information online. Apparently there was some sort of malfunction at her high school and users were unable to access their accounts. Fearing a hack, the system administrators contacted the local police. The local police sent two [...]

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Sometime towards the beginning of this summer I came to a mildly depressing realization. When other people discussed me, they describe me as ‘Jordan - that guy who is good with computers’, or ‘Jordan - who has lots of gadgets’ or ‘Jordan - the one horrible author on wantingseed’. Erhm, wait a minute.
It [...]

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Normally I don’t approve of the actions and tactics of the Winter Springs Police Department which, for the most part, involves ticketing people for six over the speed limit1. I especially dislike their automated speed guns, which to me seems like cheating. But not today, not when one of those aforementioned automated speed [...]

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Computational linguistics is cool as hell. It may be the link between my inherent computer nerd self and a desire to learn languages. It is, at very least, more interesting than politics (or, rather, it has captured my attention away from politics, which is frustrating as hell right now). Let’s say I’ve [...]

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