Today, the Internet strikes against censorship.

Sometimes, things come back very quickly.

In my last post, I essentially told the tale how I came to buying an optical drive for my laptop. Today, I will tell the tale why I got rid of it again.

In my day job as a researcher, from time to time I happen to publish a paper at some scientific conference. ThisLast week, I was at the 2011 IEEE Cloud and Green Computing conference in Sydney, Australia — but Clouds were yet to be seen.

Today, I confess: I am a Mac user.

These days, it seems that the pendulum of Apple product and service love is swinging slightly more towards the negative side, at least in the community I work in. Partly, this has to do with the never-ending discussion on freedom and beer, which seems to be affecting mainly scientists for some nebulous reason—but I digress. Since yesterday, I have to admit they might have a point.

In my last post, I referred to an email to Sam Johnston “explaining my position (and politely admitting what I stated above), hoping that this will both bury the personal issues that arose over the last week, and close a rather bland and unfruitful episode in the history of OGF efforts”.

I feel that I should share this message with you.

It has been a while since I started to consider whether I should have a blog or not. While I was never really against it, and always thought it would be cool, I never had the feeling that my first post would be sufficiently substantial, interesting, or important to let the general public know.

Yesterday, I brought myself to dispel all doubts.