Me no like Blogger.

I was attempting to use one of Blogger’s new ‘features’ which is to use a custom registered domain name, so that posts would appear as www.virtualsuburbia.com/blahblahblahfromchip instead of virtualsuburbia.blogspot.com/blahblahblahfromchip. It is supposed to transfer seamlessly and not break the old archives, since the files are still with blogspot.

Of course as soon as I set it I realized the dns records had not propagated, requests to either form of the address were getting set to a parking page from the registrar. Yikes! As soon as I realized this, Blogger wouldn’t let me switch back to the way it was. It barfed up an error code and a search on that just revealed more people in the same boat as me with no solutions…

So temporarily, the domain has been forwarded to here, just to let you know the site hasn’t died! It should be back within a day or two (see update - thanks to some sleepless googling, i’ve found out a thing or two).

My SINCERE apologies for this debaucle.

In the meantime, feel free to have a look around…and please visit us again soon…

Update: Apparently its not just a simple matter of waiting for the dns to propagate. It has propagated now and still not working for reasons documented here. If you’re on Blogger, hosted at Blogspot, and considering using a custom domain, you might want to *cough* reconsider.

Update 2: Its been a rough day but we’re back up over at www.virtualsuburbia.com now, requiring some craziness that I won’t get into here, seems more appropriate for the rather active ‘Something Is Broken’ Blogger Newsgroup