Welcome everyone! I have decided to dust of my skills in communicating with other humans instead of almost exclusively with computers like I have been doing for the past few years. To that end I am migrating my old and almost defunct blog I used to write and manage in WordPress in all its cringeworthy glory. So you will see some posts that show up out of order in the timeline.

As anyone who worked with android applications experienced, the files created by Android application in “External Storage” (I don’t like this term, as this usually refers to internal memory of the device), do not show up in windows explorer until the device is rebooted. Initially we used recording to external media (USB drives, SD Cards) as a workaround. However, some smart guy working on Android added a “feature” since Honeycomb 3.

I just found out that one of the projects that I have been anticipating released their first Alpha(arstechnica). I downloaded the application. Installation took a few tries but it installed successfully when I closed all the IE and eclipse instances. After installation, just on a lark, I tried to use ADB to see if I can run my application. And surprisingly, it connected!! The process I used was I ran an application and when I was running the app I issued the command in command prompt

Earlier this month, I was looking for a quick way to fit an ellipse for a set of points. I did some searching around and this paper looked most promising. The explanation looked fairly interesting. The best part, however, is that the paper provides a MATLAB implementation for the algorithm that Fits an ellipse in Canonical form $$ Ax^2 + Bxy + Cy^2 + Dx + Ey + F = 0 $$