I spent much of Saturday swearing very loudly at my bike. In essence the front derailleur is simple, but actually understanding the precise techniques is more tricky. By late afternoon I had achieved bugger all other than a deeper understanding of derailleurs (T's suggestion of Sheldon Brown did not really help although another suggestion (on Monday) of Park Tools seems rather good). I was in a foul mood, so stayed in and watched a bit more Torchwood. Somewhat later I dragged myself out to the Bowling Green and found a guy singing that was actually entertaining. There was some beer and chat and I felt rather less fed up.

Sunday, being a complete masochist, I tried to fix the bike again. This time, however, I gave up after only 1.5 hours and went for a walk/run on the moors which was lovely.

Other points of note are :

H&B are coming round tomorrow to see my kittens and help me work on my bike :)
My ankle is again knackered - must do some yoga, and possibly get someone to look at it, as something is clearly wrong :(. Certainly I must not do any more running on it.
Computer hasn't crashed again yet - it was up for 3.5 days after switching both CRTs to be on one card. Have now switched one CRT back and it's up to about a day and a half - hopefully it will now crash, so that I can pinpoint the problem.

So far Torchwood series 2 has been rather good; episode 5 ('Adam') probably being the weakest one so far. Owen seems to be the only remaining member of the team who is not bi (the kiss to get out of an awkward situation in series 1 episode 1 doesn't really count..)

I did make a small amount of progress with exult last week - it runs fine (I made a stupid linking error, and am still finding my way round Visual Studio 2008). However, the debug version is a) slow (understandable) and b) occupies about 30Meg. Some of that will be debug code, but given that I want to get it under 10MB, that's rather a lot!