For bonus points, try tying a scarf around your ankles to see how small you can make your footwork without losing the feeling of rhythm in your body. Also, try listening out for places in the music that say “STOP” and freeze where you are for 8 counts or so. Make sure that you can start again at the start of the following bar.

All of these exercises will make your dancing more fluid and help you to recover when you make mistakes (which is inevitable when you are learning new moves). I think of learning moves as a way to test your mastery of the underlying principles. If you learn moves quickly then it is a sign that you have mastered the foundations. Keep in mind point 1.2.1 though and don’t get too obsessed with doing lots of new moves all the time. Keep it simple, do it well, and be playful with it.

I took the service down over the weekend and on Monday while I was working out a fix for your problem. I believe I have found a solution (If you are not subscribed to the echobot when it signs in, it will remove you). I tested it using my other (low-traffic) echobot account in an attempt to reduce the amount of spam that you received, but there was no way to disable that one last subscription request (when the echo bot signed on and retrieved its contact list to check who it needed to remove without taking the entire server off the network. There may possibly have been a second, because the bot crashed when I tried to unsubscribe from so many contacts at the same time and I had to try again in batches.

I will ask the XMPP server sysadmin to make sure you are no longer being spammed, but you are no longer on the echobot’s contact list, so if you are still being spammed (apart from on Monday night) then I’m gonna blame prosody. I also plan to double-check that h.264 video calls work with Google Talk, and then bring it up and blog about it again.This should happen by the end of the week.

What I find a bit sad is that you haven’t replied to this anymore. I don’t suppose I’m the only one your server harassing, you’ll need to resolve this.

Connection Incoming Incoming
Remote server IP / Hostname: 93.93.128.225 / jalfrezi.collabora.co.uk

If this goes on I have to blacklist you, but I’d like to get this resolved so if I can supply you with information just ask.

What I don’t understand is – I don’t even know that echo address or use it. I run my own jabber server. I have no clue why your system should contact me at all.

(my given mail is xmpp address)

The most pointless diferences that I’ve found are the UTF vs utf at the top of the file, and the timestamps at the bottom. I think that the solution to these problems would be to write a git filter (smudge and clean ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/gitattributes.html) to ignore these changes.

There is also a crazy bug where one of my notes is not visible in Conboy, but still exists in Tomboy and on the filesystem. Any ideas what might be causing that?

@Sandy: I also noticed that the tomboy Note Directory Watcher causes changes to be written to the working directory in the middle of a rebase (which breaks *everything*) so I decided to do ignore performance the merge in a temporary directory.

@Blaise: @Sandy: If you have any other hints that might be useful in helping me to write a git filter, please tell me. It will probably take me a few weeks to get around to it, so no rush (git mergetool seems to be pretty easy to use now that I’ve resigned myself to using a tmpdir, so I don’t have much motivation to fix it properly).