There we are, my blog is finally up and running and it’s time to write the first article! I’ve long wanted to start a blog but declined to do so until now: lack of time. Before diving in, I would like to explain how I came here. The lack of time was not the only reason not to start blogging. I wanted to host the blog on a machine I could play with: install, configure, test, break, … Enter Amazon EC2: a cheap solution to have a box in the cloud.