I should write here more often... at some point, I'll set up a proper system with which I remember to post everywhere. Anyhow, lurking on a certain IRC channel, and reading articles, tweets and whatnot on a topic close to my heart (logging), I was tempted to sum up my feelings about log storage:

http://asylum.madhouse-project.org/blog/2015/05/05/grepping-logs-is-terrible/

In short: convenience rocks, when you are a lazy person, and pure, free-form text is not always convenient to work with.