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This is random-ish and slightly more driveling than usual, but it's early, so: can anyone else get on the Daily News' website? We've cleared our cache and cookies, but our poor browser hasn't been able to find the News' server for the second day in a row. A survey of associates has found inconsistent access: maybe 1/3 of New York slaves can get online; outside of the region, it's inconsistent as to who can access the site. Do the Newsies even know that there's a problem? Did Mort forget to pay the bill? That we totally understand. (And oh, how we long for the days of Network Solution outtages — happy, halcyon snow days...)

Granted we certainly don't NEED the News, but it's about having the option. Plus Poynter is linking to some item Lloyd Grove wrote about Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter's forthcoming restaurant, and we can't even read it.

Maybe we shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth.