Aldi, HD-Ready and KvC

Last weekend I saw a large, cheap, HD-ready plasma TV at Aldi. Straight off I went looking for the problem and it took me a while but then I found it: "Physical Resolution: 1024x768". Yeah, HD-Ready all right: it can decode the picture, it even had HDCP, but it just cannot show all those pixels (1920x1080 in 1080i or 1280x720 in 720p mode).

Still, better then the 800x600 LCD TV they had at Carrefour a while ago.

Monday evening I went to the 'boys-night' and played an interesting game of Catan. I must be getting better, because my beginners luck ran out and I lost again.

New common-lisp-controller version

We (I and René van Bevern) have been working on a new version of clc. This should add support for 'create a core from these files' implementations, like ecl. It also uses the UID of the user to create the cache directory, andcustomizationn of the systems loaded by default in the standard images.

It works for us, but we would be grateful if people could try it out and suggest improvements. Get it at:
http://people.debian.org/~pvaneynd/cl-packages/common-lisp-controller/common-lisp-controller_5.10_all.deb

No ecl in debian yet, as I've run up against a strange compilation failure.