Patterico's Pontifications

1/3/2011

Site Notes

Filed under: General — Patterico @ 7:48 pm



As many of you have noticed, I have been rather absent from the site as of late. This is primarily due to a crushing load of work. I have been in a new assignment for about a year and a half now, and it is extraordinarily busy all the time, and some times are worse than others. I had to cut my annual Christmas trip short a couple of days to fly back from Texas and finish my second trial in a row; this has made my contributions to the site negligible for the past several weeks.

I want y’all to know that I don’t consider this to be a permanent state of affairs, but it will happen from time to time when I get so busy that I have time for nothing else.

The workload has made this the first year since the blog began that I didn’t put up a Year in Review post chronicling the L.A. Times‘s errors and distortions right around New Year’s Eve. I haven’t given up on the idea, but I can’t guarantee it either. We’ll see how things go in the coming days. It wasn’t as widely linked last year (last year being the first year that Instapundit passed up the Year in Review post, for example) and it’s hard to get motivated for such a big project when linkage is not guaranteed and work is heavy. Still, it’s a tradition, and I hope to get up something soon.

I would be remiss if I did not issue a few messages of thanks.

First, to Aaron Worthing, who has kept the site alive in recent weeks. I have received a lot of positive feedback regarding his posts, and I deeply appreciate his continual contributions (as well as the rarer but always very anticipated posts from Karl and Jack Dunphy).

I would like to thank Matt Collins of SunAnt, who helped me get through the early part of last year by providing free hosting and innumerable hours of site tweaking and the like. Matt, who goes by the Internet name Enoch Root, is Dan Collins’s brother, and was truly a lifesaver at a time when the site was going through some very rough times. I will never be able to pay him back for all he did. I have been able to recommend his services to others who have been pleased, but I always told him I wanted to issue a public and prominent thanks, and here it is.

His company, SunAnt, does web development (including graphics and programming) as well as Search Engine Marketing (including pay per click, search engine optimization, and inbound link building). Their model includes “direct to client” and also “white label” services — wherein they handle small and large projects for traditional agencies and consultants and marketing companies. The idea is that Matt and Co. do the work, but the client gets the credit and works directly with the end client. Pretty good deal for the client.

Anyway, thanks very much to Matt and his team for everything they did for me last year.

Finally, thanks to all of you for your patience during the times when the site is difficult to maintain. I have always said this site has the greatest group of readers and commenters anywhere, and you continue to prove that true time and time again.

22 Responses to “Site Notes”

  1. Who the hell are you? I want Aaron Worthing back.

    HUUUUH (24c257)

  2. Be nice, huuuuh.

    And I’m not gone yet, he is just pausing to give a status update and a thanks.

    Patterico

    your welcome and thanks in return.

    Aaron Worthing (1a6294)

  3. Aaron stays. I’m still busy.

    Patterico (c218bd)

  4. I appreciate quality over quantity.
    This is why I read this site.

    Ed of Mesa-AZ (1ed450)

  5. Patterico, you are privileged to be talented at more worthwhile tasks than you have time for, and I think your priorities are the right ones.

    Dustin (b54cdc)

  6. You’ve given above and beyond already, so don’t work too hard, and we’ll leave the light on for you.

    Patricia (3aa1fd)

  7. Have Aaron and DRJ ever been seen in the same room together? Or picture?

    Thank YOU, Pat. Whatever level of energy you choose to put into this site is fine by me.

    Ed from SFV (6edf50)

  8. Have Aaron and DRJ ever been seen in the same room together?

    I know I’m kinda ripping off Treacher.

    Dustin (b54cdc)

  9. Thanks Pat! And thanks to everyone who frequents Patterico.com for their patience as we tweaked this and that and ultimately moved this giant beast to the cloud. Lots of moving parts – boatloads of traffic – and took some heavy lifting – but Patterico blog is an important voice on the interwarbs. Thanks for the referrals and the vote of confidence. Happy New Year.

    Matt Collins (9c002f)

  10. Dustin

    And for the record, in your pic, i am the one on the right. 🙂

    Of course the downside of looking like that is everyone keeps thinking i am a liberal douche bag.

    Aaron Worthing (e7d72e)

  11. I do have to say that the site is drastically superior now compared with how it was before Matt Collins worked on it. Matt’s obviously very good at what he does.

    Dustin (b54cdc)

  12. Thanks to Patterico, Matt, Aaron, Karl, Jack, and DRJ (heh!).

    xoxoxoxoxo

    (ps. Makes me happy to see Matt thanked so graciously)

    MayBee (081489)

  13. Is that what determines your yearly evisceration of the Times? Linkage from other sites? How MSM of you–and how pathetic.

    Gustavo Arellano (b0dc51)

  14. Gustavo, your DREAM act coverage was terrible, and your comment here is just trolling. I think that’s pathetic.

    Patterico explains his reasons clearly. What part of that do you not understand? He’s busy and he means to get around to this tradition of his, and he hopes it gains a wider audience than it did last time. You shouldn’t lie about what people say, Gustavo, parrot of La Raza.

    Dustin (b54cdc)

  15. I gotta comment again on this troll.

    Patterico is not a professional journalist, but he is a professional. He’s a member of the CA bar. It’s valuable that in modern media professionals from many walks of life can have a blog and share their insights, such as Patterico’s insights into politics, criminal law, and simple accuracy in reporting.

    It’s an obvious consequence of the nature of a blogger with a day-job that his day-job will often dominate his schedule. He’s too busy prosecuting heinous criminals to maintain a constant stream of articles.

    Gustavo ignores that entirely because it exposes something very basically wrong with Gustavo’s own work. He’s nobody. He’s done nothing. He’s no expert on anything. He’s just a writer for the OC Register copying press releases from hard leftist outfits. There’s very little value in what Gustavo does, for the same reason Patterico’s challenging day-job makes his views on many issues so compelling.

    Just read Gustavo’s work yourself. He linked his outfit. There is value in journalism by people who do nothing but report, but the only value is if they clearly and honestly recite the facts without errors or sleaze. That’s why Patterico’s discussions of the LA Times’s errors often strike a nerve with the media. It cuts to the core of their lack of worth to society. They have one purpose and they should honor it.

    My apologies to Gustavo if the commenter isn’t really him, but I’ve come to associate that name with crap product that pumps lefty memes, often rather silly ones, into fake news. It’s particularly annoying when this crap is meant to promote a concept I agree with (I think immigrants who enlist and serve honorably should become citizens) because it’s too transparently phony.

    And something about his sentiment sounds like he wants to kick a guy when he’s down. Anyone can tell Patterico doesn’t enjoy neglecting his blogging. Calling him pathetic for that is unprofessional.

    Dustin (b54cdc)

  16. Patterico, Still love reading your site. I know what back to back trials are like, especially heavy ones. Try not to stress too much over the site. Readers like me will still be here, and Aaron is doing a great job filling in. Tough enough just to keep up with trials and family, let alone a top notch blog site.

    Is Gustavo Arrellano the same Gustavo I hear on KROQ and other outlets on the “Ask a Mexican” column? If so, that’s too bad. I found him interesting to listen to on the radio (even when I disagree with him). But if that’s him posting above he really is a tool.

    CStudent (58188d)

  17. I assume that is actually Gustavo Arellano, who is a contributing editor with the L.A. Times. It appears that the poor reading and reasoning skills of the editors at that paper are rubbing off on him. His caricature of my post, it is evident to anyone who can read, is quite different from what I actually said.

    Patterico (c218bd)

  18. That’s it. I am hard at work on the Year in Review. This is going to happen.

    ALL JUST TO SHOW GUSTAVO ARELLANO!!!

    Patterico (c218bd)

  19. Whatever it takes, Patterico, whatever it takes. 🙂

    Dana (8ba2fb)

  20. Comment by Patterico — 1/4/2011 @ 10:20 pm

    rofl

    SPQR (26be8b)

  21. Dana:

    You just made it into the Year in Review post.

    You’ll see.

    Patterico (c218bd)

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