{"id":1360,"date":"2007-03-03T07:30:43","date_gmt":"2007-03-03T07:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2007-03-03T07:31:51","modified_gmt":"2007-03-03T07:31:51","slug":"correlation_cau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1360","title":{"rendered":"Correlation != Causation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a way that probably carries bigger lessons for us all, I discovered this afternoon (with the help of Evariste, who watched the server while I tried to get connected) that while Thunderbird had in fact updated itself when I launched it this morning, and didn&#8217;t work after that&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;that the issue was that my IT guys had locked down the two ports I use for SSL mail this morning. At about the same time.<\/p>\n<p>And I presumed &#8211; because after all, it was logical to do so &#8211; that the update had caused the problem, rather than some exogenous issue (like overzealous IT staff).<\/p>\n<p>So, what do we all think the lesson here is?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armed Liberal: Oops!! (but about Thunderbird, not Iraq&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}