I'm John Lusk, a software developer in North Carolina (USA).
As I state in my RSS feed description: "John's personal bliki. Notes mostly on web development and associated technologies, while avoiding getting locked in to the ecology of any single large corporation."
To add a bit to that: I consider Java, specifically, to be an open framework, since the language spec is open, and the courts have ruled (so far) that the library spec (API) is also open. If Oracle ever moves to really close Java, I might re-consider, but, bear in mind: Java runs with the same behavior on many platforms, including (but not limited to) MS-Windows, MacOS, Linux and IBM mainframes.