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Yesterday (26th Oct 2010) was a special Sankashta Chaturthi as it fell on a Tuesday. I heard that fasting on this day is equivalent to observing the fast for 21 days :). Researching on internet, found this link that mentions it to be Angarak Ganesh Chaturthi and explains why it’s special. Thought it’s a good time to start fasting on this day – with only fluids until moonrise. But reading through this link , it looks like you cannot have any fluids except water and that too in limited quantities. Dates of sankashta chaturthi for this year are here .

I frequently encountered the below error: emulator: ERROR: the user data image is used by another emulator. aborting   Once I get this error, I typically restart the emulator and that works most of the times. Sometimes I have to do wipe data for it to start connecting. However searching on google, returned me this link: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1740834/emulator-problem-in-android The easiest solution that worked for me is to invoke the command below. Best part is you need not restart the emulator, adb kill-server && adb start-server adb executable is part of the tools in your android sdk.

Planned to goto Nandi temple in Nandi ( chikkaballapur ) and ranganatha temple in chikkaballapur in the morning at around 9 AM. I got around 8:45 :) and got ready immediately but Pallavi and my daughter Sireesha got ready by only 11:30 :(. So dropped the plan of chikkaballapur and went to only Nandi. First we went to Kanave basavana temple which is around 3 kms from the Nandi temple. Then happened to visit the Saibaba temple and vrudhashrama – Ashram for old people who do not have anyone to take care of them. After giving them a donation – they insisted us to have lunch there. We went to Nandi after having lunch there. A great temple – the gods there seem to be so real. Uma maheswara temple, Bhoga nandi temple, parvathi temple inside that are all beautiful. There was also a tulu film shooting happening and the music was good. The same 10 seconds music was being played and there were atleast 4 trials before we left the place. Evening, we decided to go to California Ramanashree re...

BarCamp Bangalore 9th edition was held in our Intuit Campus (Bellandur, Bangalore). There was a good crowd of around 250 people. Intuit, OrangeScape and FusionCharts were the official sponsors. Attended the sessions : BigTable – Why? & How? A killer Mobile App Framework – Sencha Touch Open Discussion: Smartphone Platform Wars! Would you like something new to listen to? Visualizing Government Data How you can help Wikipedia Android Programming for Desktop Programmers Also helped Saurabh in presenting the session: Android Programming for Desktop Programmers Had very informative and entertaining sessions.... Got lots of ideas and web links to check.... Eager to attend the next one :)

BarCamp Bangalore 9th edition was held in our Intuit Campus (Bellandur, Bangalore). There was a good crowd of around 250 people. Intuit, OrangeScape and FusionCharts were the official sponsors. Attended the sessions : BigTable – Why? & How? A killer Mobile App Framework – Sencha Touch Open Discussion: Smartphone Platform Wars! Would you like something new to listen to? Visualizing Government Data How you can help Wikipedia Android Programming for Desktop Programmers Also helped Saurabh in presenting the session: Android Programming for Desktop Programmers Had very informative and entertaining sessions.... Got lots of ideas and web links to check.... Eager to attend the next one :)

Command line mechanism is mentioned here: ftp://ftp.perforce.com/perforce/r97.3/doc/cmdguide/html/changere.htm Details about this are in: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/588264/perforce-getting-email-on-every-checkin   In Perforce p4v –> Click on Connection –> Edit Current User. In reviews enter the perforce depot directory ending with /… You should be getting emails for the current user email.

I have run into this problem frequently and the below 2 suggestions worked for me: 1. Start AVD with command prompt – with administrator privileges 2. Just restart the AVD from eclipse :)