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It crosses my mind that most of server names mentioned so far are like modern art, where x artist is responding to y school neither of whom have ever been seen by anyone outside NYC. You have to be in the know for it to make sense. What about naming the server so that users would know what it did from the name? We used to have a library web server named libweb, which I always liked, as it sort of made sense to people. Now all our new ones are named after periodic elements. Not being a chemistry major, I still have to think twice which one is radon and which strontium etc. -----Original Message----- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Tim Spalding Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 10:45 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Server names at libraries Our severs are all Greek gods-Zeus, Hera, Apollo, Athena. Zeus is the master, of course. I didn't decide on Athena's name, or I would have made it Artemis. For a storage server I inflicted LibraryThing's employees with the greek goddess of memory, Mnemosyne, a pronunciation disaster. (You'd think people would know from mnemonic, but even the dictionary tells people to pronounce that as if it started with n.) Mnemosyne had her revenge, however, since it's now completely broken.