I am a reporter, albeit an unconventional one.
I specialize in what is called computer-assisted reporting. Journalists in the past were often hack novelists. I'm a hack computer programmer. I use computers to collect, organize, analyze and present large amounts of information.
I work at the Los Angeles Times, a daily newspaper and 24-hour website based in Southern California.
I am also the editor and publisher of PastPages, an archive dedicated to the preservation of online news.