In reply to Bob Schecter.

I never once said I don't backup my sites and clients sites.

I am sure TechCrunch backs up daily. Not all sites have that much content for a daily backup.

I mostly (on my own sites) a weekly backup to DropBox.

Nothing Neurotic about wanting to look at what the update contains (any new feature(s)) and doing the update yourself.

Some people believe doing these things automatically equals lazyness.

I have NEVER taken more than 2-3 hours to do an update. I read on twitter all the update information, then update on my test site, then voila update the actual site. Depending on the number of updates...it takes me less than 1 hour. Most of the time 20 minutes.