Erik Kastner, an average 28 year old developer living in Springfield, NJ has decided to put up $1500 of his own cash to see if he can attain a "6-pack" within 12 weeks. With a little under 3 weeks left to go, it could still go either way!

As we know, Sun is relicensing JDK for inclusion in Linux distros. This is a fantastic development for Java. In this blog, I muse about GPL'ing Java as "GlassFishBowl" and rigorously protect the Java trademark, so that Java still means "Java" as in the JCP, TCK, JEE, et cetera.