I only subscribe to two magazines - EGM, and PC Plus. In fact, I’ve cancelled my renewal for PC Plus because I don’t actually have a PC any more, but I still have the end of the subscription to run.
Imagine my surprise when I opened this month’s issue to find, along with the usual scammy scratchcards and flyers for home insurance, this:
Spotted on BBC Three’s “The Wrong Door” this week.
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.
I just won on the dogs! All five and bit pounds! AMAZE!
My work PC desktop, at least. I’m a well proud dad-to-be, see.
This is Dunny and Woody (wot who rite Spectrum emulators and stuff) at ORSAM a few years ago. It was a Sinclair-based retro geek show. I, uh, went for the food.
This is my phone’s “desktop”. Yes, I have nicked it from OS X Leopard 
