After almost 5 days of being broken, escapevelocity is back online. Some of you may have seen my cheesy “help, escapevelocity is broken” welcome page. The troubles started with a Blogger error message that would pop up everytime I tried to publish a post:

001 java.net.UnknownHostException

After a bit of research, it appeared this error message was related to ftp access priviledges. I hadn’t made any recent changes to either my Blogger or webhost settings so this didn’t make any sense, but I went ahead and made the recommended changes to my Blogger account - changed the ftp address to the actual IP address and a few other tweaks. No luck. The rest of the week was spent emailing back and forth with my webhost’s technical support department, trying to figure out why my account was suddenly blocking anything from Blogger.

In the end, escapevelocity was fixed with voodoo magic, and I am in the process of moving to Wordpress. Stay tuned for updates.