That newfangled Journal thing

yoush makes a particularly valuable point about implementing new technology. If you don't define what you have currently you are just changing things for change sake and that is a hit and miss proposition. Understand your needs, what your system currently provides, and then see if a significant change is still warranted.

Its important that once implemented, the Journal be accessible to the lowest common-denominator interface which means the commandline using the standard set of commandline utilities to extract desired information. If we can't produce this we've lost the value of this function.