For those of you who tried to check out the Daily News yesterday afternoon, my apologies. Hackers attacked our web-hosting service for several hours, crashing several servers and generally making the Internets pretty unreliable. A full rebate has been mailed to each and every one of you.

For those of you who have attempted to subscribe to our RSS feed, we also owe an apology and rebate. This time, we cannot blame Romanian teenagers. RSS stands for Real Simple Syndication, but take it from me: Pimpin' ain't easy, and RSS ain't simple. Please bear with us and your patience will be rewarded with lifelong good karma.