I'm probably late waking up on this. But I just stumbled over what the http : // freeroller [dot] net URL is showing these days and suddenly I'm not particularly pleased with my blog archives pointing to other persons' historic but removed blog entries...

Mmm, this Stellarium Astronomy Software is the kind of exciting gadget for all you geeky APOD lovers out there (well, it is for me)

I've discovered it as an easy to add package on my Ubuntu Breezy Badger distribution. Which in my case also got me into applying some of Sam Ruby's recent fglrx config magic to get the appropriate video acceleration going.

The ubuntu package is still at 0.6.2 while the 0.7.1 is out and offers searching for named sky-objects by name... I hope they'll push an update through the packages.gz soonish.

Huh! There must be a better reason why we all are adding these dreadfull hand-typed &lt;my&gt;&lt;xml&gt;&lt;snippet/&gt;&lt;/xml&gt;&lt;/my&gt; blurps to our /** javadoc sections describing useful xml config */ while we would just rather use <![CDATA[<my><xml><snippet/></xml></my>]]>, no?

The one reason I've found is that the javadoc tool will enter your CDATA sections as comments in the resulting HTML, not as the verbatim copy of what you want to see. Bummer!

update: Just wasted a 'vote' on a reported bug that seems related and useful.