Finding the courage to express yourself is not always an easy thing to do. While the internet provides many tools to share our opinions, articles, blog-posts and other creations with the world, it also opens us to opinions of others: the good, the bad and the cruel. From the moment you start writing on the web, you discover that developing a thick skin is a necessary skill for survival. I have been called a "spin doctor" by a reader of the Belgian financial newspaper De Tijd

I bought my first laptop, a Toshiba Satellite 110 CS, back in 1996. It possessed an 11,3" STN colour screen with a resolution of 800 x 600 and a 100 MHz processor “for all those lavish presentations and complex programs” - like it was mentioned in the product brochure. It had a Windows 95 operating system and an 810 million byte hard disk drive. “Isn't that the sort of storage you've always dreamt about? At last, enough space for all your vital data and software programs - an