{"id":2425,"date":"2009-07-23T22:38:45","date_gmt":"2009-07-24T03:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2425"},"modified":"2009-07-23T23:15:35","modified_gmt":"2009-07-24T04:15:35","slug":"occams-razor-exlains-most-if-not-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2425","title":{"rendered":"Occam&#8217;s Razor explains most, if not all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a school board member I always thought the official slogan of Board members ought to be: &#8220;Just because you&#8217;re paranoid doesn&#8217;t meant they <em>aren&#8217;t <\/em>out to get you!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That was a joke of course but in the absence of a good explanation almost anything will do to fill the void. My <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2423\">last post<\/a> joked that the recent requirement visitors have had to endure was the result of the blog suffering from some voodoo. Hey, in the absence of a good explanation Voodoo works for most of us.<\/p>\n<p>Well, this time the paranoia wasn&#8217;t justified. I received this helpful email a short while ago.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Harry,<\/p>\n<p>The reason the password request is displaying on your page is a result of your post on July, 20 titled <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2403\">339 Visitors<\/a>.  The image that you tried to display in that post resides on a protected area of your website requiring a user name and password.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That explained it immediately. You won&#8217;t see it now but until I got this message there was a tiny blue underline a sixteenth of an inch across where I had attempted to imbed a graphic from an off limits page that showed the growth of visitors to this blog. I was in such a hurry that when it didn&#8217;t show up I didn&#8217;t think much of the almost imperceptible few pixels. Now I&#8217;ve removed them demonstrating yet again the value of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Occam%27s_Razor\">Occam&#8217;s Razor<\/a>. Wikipedia has an academic explanation of the Razor but to greatly oversimplify it suggests that the simpler the explanation the more likely it is.<\/p>\n<p>In this case putting a link into a lincolndemocrat statistic page that is only meant for my eyes is a pretty simple explanation compared to explaining how my website could be knocked off kilter by someone else inserting a pin in the likeness of a computer monitor with Abe Lincoln on it.<\/p>\n<p>It was a Mr. Potter who explained this&#8230;&#8230;Now wait a second&#8230;. I love Harry Potter and my name is Harry and the fellow who helped me work the magic to correct the glitch has that as his last name&#8230;&#8230;You can&#8217;t tell me that just a coincidence. Who cares what Occam said? And besides, that&#8217;s such a silly name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a school board member I always thought the official slogan of Board members ought to be: &#8220;Just because you&#8217;re paranoid doesn&#8217;t meant they&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}