bedeviled mojo slop

Oh my ... the From Russia With Buzz blog!

I thought I was a fan of Ben & Jerry's From Russia With Buzz. Apparently there are others who share in my devotion to this scrumplicious ice cream. Here's a snippet from an e-mail I got this afternoon.

David,

I just want to let you know I came across your blog, and I have the
same passion for FRWB as you do. I've been trying to resurrect it ever
since it dissapeared a few years ago. I've done everything from
calling Ben and Jerry's begging they sell me any leftover stock, to
emailing all my friends to help me in my crusade. So, I thought you
may be interested that I've registered the fromrussiawithbuzz.com
domain, and I am in the process of trying to create a page to tell the
public about it's greatness.

WOW!

From Russia With Buzz superfans unite!

Remember folks, you can vote from now until April 30th for FRWB to be in the running as a flavor to be raised from the grave!

via World Views, JDK 6.0 Internationalization Features

A new article about features under development for JDK 6.0 has a section on internationalization features. The big theme is opening up the architecture of the internationalization frameworks – enabling different implementations of resource bundles as well as the provision of locale data for locales that Sun doesn’t know enough about. The long awaited normalization API and a Japanese calendar round out the feature set.

I do like the thought of a provider-based approach for loading resource bundles although I have not yet run into a situation where I needed to have a different bundle lookup process or have to worry about caching of resources. The ability to manipulate the caching of resources would be useful, especially on the server-side. At the very least, for example, it would enable updating of resources for already deployed web applications.