Save theChildren's Asia Earthquake/Tsunami Fund:

Save the Children was able to respond to the immediate needs of children and families affected by this disaster. In the months and years ahead, homes, schools and hospitals must be rebuilt. Water and sanitation systems need to be reconstructed. Teachers and health care workers will need to be retrained and livelihoods restored. Long-term,infrastructures and institutions have to be reestablished. Most of all, the children must recover emotionally from the horror they have survived. It will take time to accomplish all of these things.

Save the Children is doing a genuine job to help children in need in Asia and throughout the world with the generous donations we make. Simply click this link http://www.savethechildren.org and browse through their webiste and get a feel for what they do.. and while you are there please do not forget to DONATE.

You can also mail your donations to the following mailing address:
Save the Children
Phone: 1-800-728-3843
http://www.savethechildren.org/
54 Wilton Rd.Westport, CT 06880

BEA's JRockit 5.0

Incase if you don't know that BEA's JRockit is the best and the fastest JVM. Here is the link where you can get that for free. Note: This free JRE is for Tiger.
http://dev2dev.bea.com/products/wljrockit50/index.jsp?PC=05-0118-PRD02

Free JCP ePractice exams from Sun..

Sun is offering free ePractice exams for a bunch of their certification exams like

• Sample Sun Certified Programmer for the Java 2 Platform 1.4
• Web Component Developer
• ePractice for the Sun Certified Web Component Developer for the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition 1.4
• Exam: ePractice Sample Questions for Sun Certified Business Component Developer for the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition 1.3
• Systems Admin I
• Systems Admin II
• Sample Solaris 9 Sun Certified System Administrator Part I
• Sample Solaris 9 Sun Certified System Administrator Part II
• Network Admin
• Sample Solaris 9 Sun Certified Network Administrator
• ePractice Sample Questions for the Sun Certified System Administrator for the Solaris 10 OS, Part I
• ePractice Sample Questions for the Sun Certified System Administrator for the Solaris 10 OS, Part II
• ePractice Sample Questions for the Sun Certified Network Administrator for the Solaris 10 OS
• Exam: ePractice Sample Questions for Sun Certified Security Administrator for the Solaris 9 Operating Environment

Any one planning to get certified in any of the above areas can use this oppurtunity as a good start to practice.

First blog entry :)

Hello everyone.. this is my first blog entry. I hope this whole blogging "thing" will be interesting to me and i definitely promise not to bore the rest of the "blogging" community.
-Raghu