Mar 22 2010
Occam’s Razor
I spent hours today trying to determine why a system was not logging certain critical application events! It was very frustrating!
Ultimately, it transpired that the system was logging the events, and that I was looking in the wrong log! This mistake was not really my fault, so at least I did not feel like an idiot :)
A colleague noted that this was a typical example of Occam’s Razor. At least I learned something from this experience!
March 23rd, 2010 at 00:24
The principle of Occam’s Razor is that, all other things being equal, the hypothesis with the fewest premises is probably right. Not quite the same thing as saying the simplest explanation is probably true…
March 26th, 2010 at 22:45
Thanks for the clarification ;)