Even better, logs are databases, and not a linear sequence at all. Often, I find that I am interested in some very specific subset of what happened; between the

Even better, logs are databases, and not a linear sequence at all. Often, I find that I am interested in some very specific subset of what happened; between these dates, from this IP address, in this module, errors of this kind, etc. If log entries were put in a database with a well-thought out schema, using the log in this way would be trivial.