At work, I’ve facetiously named all our servers with actual proper names. “Server 1″ or “Mail Server” are dull, boring, and – most importantly – rubbish names for servers. So they have names. Some were named after specific people, others were named because the machines were different colours and the name started with the same letter as the colour. Roxy is the Proxy. So there’s no real pattern to them all.

Anyway. This week, we killed several of the older servers and replaced them with new, powerful-but-not-colourful Dell servers. And we named them as before. In addition, they’re pretty much all rack mounted now, so I remote into them. “I know,” I thought, “I’ll give them all exciting wallpaper!”. Except Roxy as I couldn’t find a safe-for-work picture to use.

And so it came to pass:

That’s right. Simon Amstell is now one of our servers. Amazing.