How senseless people can be ?

Read this rediff story today. Tribal kills his mother for sacrifice to a diety. [1]

It makes me feel sick to know that people can be so senseless. How can someone kill ones own mother ? Just a few days ago there was another story where some guy killed a neighbour's kid for sacrifice. I feel as sorry for the guy who killed his mother as much as for the lady herself. He would really be believing that doing such a horrible thing would bring benifit to him.

<> Somehow basic education needs to spread to all sections of our society. Only that can stop people acting this dumb.

Cleared SCJD !!

Hey

I cleared the SCJD exam today. Got the results back from Sun within less than a week from submission.
I have scored 86%, I am not happy with the score, but then I lost most of the points in the Locking section which is the most controversial. Whatever it is, its fine.

Here is the full Report card.

Sun Certified Developer for the Java 2 Platform (310-027)
Date Taken: 2004-07-17 13:21:30.560
Registration Number: kbcsyd5193
Site: iid68
Grade: P
Score: 345

Comment: This report shows the total 1.4 SCJD points that could have been awarded in each section, and the actual number of points you were awarded. This is provided to give you per-section feedback on your strengths.

The maximum possible score is 400;
the minimum to pass is 320.

General Considerations (maximum = 100): 94
Documentation (maximum = 70): 70
O-O Design (maximum = 30): 17
GUI (maximum = 40): 40
Locking (maximum = 80): 44
Data store (maximum = 40): 40
Network server (maximum = 40): 40
Total (maximum = 400): 345

I should thank Jimmy, Latha, Nidhi and Matira. These guys helped me a lot in testing out the application. Given the score I have got I would maybe have flunked if I had not got a good score on the GUI section.
Thanks Jimmy for making my GUI good.

Personality test -- It says I am a Dictator

This Personality test says that I am a Dictator. :)
Find out what it has to say about you.

I like these attemps to understand people in five minutes :)

Wikipedia is amazing !

Its really is amazing, I knew Wikipedia is a great place to find information but did not know it is giving serious competition to the conventional encyclopedias.

Read this /. post about Wikipedia.

YOXOS Eclipse plugin

"Yoxos is a distribution of the new Eclipse 3.0 plus a selection of the most popular open-source plugins for Eclipse, and pre-packaged bundles of plugins for targeted programming scenarios such as Web development. Available as CD (worldwide delivery) or download. "

This should be a useful for people who are new to the web app plugins. They do not have go around looking for the right pluggins, they can use these bundles directly. Once they get more experienced with the various pluggins they can try out their own new combinations.