"now I can be confident you don't know what you're talking about."

I guess your original comment made clear that you weren't really interested in an answer beyond dealing with "unstated assumption" and that you want to persist in thinking of logging from a centralized point of view. You just wanted to be "confident".

But if you're seriously interested in discussing further to see what I'm working on, feel free to drop me an email on [email protected] and we can setup a Skype face-to-face.