A while back, after playing around with Firebug, I developed a method for saving streaming media delivered by Grooveshark.com. Since then, I have been thinking about ways to share this method with other people. I had some spare time this weekend, so I implemented the approach in a Google Chrome extension. You can download it here. Boris’s work with Chrome fueled my initial interest. As it turns out, programming extensions for Chrome is extremely easy!

Now that classes are over and my website is (mostly) done, I have the time to go back and review the code I wrote for the shared workspace. It was well-commented, but the code itself could use some legibility improvements. Plus, there are some interesting patterns I would like to try and apply, the simplest of which is the Constructor Pattern. While writing the code, I was wondering about the performance cost incurred when many instances of the same type define the same functions.

I’ve been thinking about running a RAID setup for a long time. Each time I upgrade my hard drive, disk failure becomes more scary. While building my new PC, I finally came to my senses. Ever since my media collection grew past a few gigs, the thought of losing it has worried me. It’s taken a lot of time to accumulate this stuff, after all! A RAID-1 (or even better, RAID-5) setup would eliminate all my worries, wouldn’t it?

Video for Everybody! inspired me to include video content in this site. I wrote a simple PHP script to output valid HTML. I then generalized the script, hoping someone else out there might find it useful. To make things more interesting, I’ve decided to try out GitHub. The code can be found at: https://github.com/jugglinmike/PHP-Video-for-Everybody. See the README file for use instructions, and please fork!

When beginning my sophomore year at RPI, I thought it was about time I built my own computer. My trusty Thinkpad was still serving all my personal computing needs, but I was starting to envision fun uses for a dedicated server. My jet-setting college lifestyle necessitated that the computer be built into an aluminum briefcase for easy transport. Buying Even though it was my first computer build, I knew the assembly of the computer would be simple.

Introduction In the fall of 2009, I studied Applied Machine Learning at CMU under Carolyn Rose. As a final project, I analyzed a leaked AOL search query dataset. After that class, I continued working with the data to identify unintentional haikus in users’ search histories. Machine Learning My Machine Learning project concerned identifying patterns in search behaviour. While the data set does not contain personally-identifiable information (at least not directly), it does group queries by user.