Pogle's Network

[sbisson]

I've been using names from Smallfilms series on our network for a long time. It goes back to when marypcb, tanais and I shared a house in Bath. One of the machines there was called "Tiny Clanger", and my peripatetic PowerBook 140 quite quickly became the "Iron Chicken" (and also the name of my Demon node fehen.demon.co.uk and later my consulting company Fehen Consulting Ltd).

Since then we've used a mix of names from different series. ThorNogson is my bedside iBook, Moonmouse our Media Centre PC. I went through a run of desktop PCs called Ivor, and currently am using machines named after two of Ivor's dragon friends - Blodwen and Idris. Other machines that have been and gone have included Bagpuss, Emily and Yaffle, with our wireless access points currently named Noggin and Nooka (replacing an old Airport base station called Graculus). Recent additions have been the Windows 7 testbeds Pippin and Tog.

That's why it made sense to name the latest arrival, a MacBook bought from eBay that I needed for some work that required an Intel Mac, Pogle.

Oliver Postgate was a huge influence on me as a child. I like to think of our network as our little memorial to a wonderful source of memories.

Comments

[kevinwmoor.livejournal.com]

When I heard that Oliver Postgate had passed away I actually thought of your machine names. Funny how the brain works, eh?

[brisingamen.livejournal.com]

My previous laptop was called the Marvellous Mechanical Mouse Organ, and featured appropriate wallpaper. I never did get around to organising things before it died so that the start-up sound was 'heave'.

[natalief.livejournal.com]

I'll never forget going to see him speak with hubs and marypcb - unless my memory is misremembering and it was not him...

[natalief.livejournal.com]

P.S. if Mary has a Ravelry login, get her to check this out!

[marypcb.livejournal.com]

it was him at the British Library and they had the Lewis chessmen - inspiration for the Nogs; it was a very good evening

[montemplar.livejournal.com]

My original home PCs were named after the characters from "Hector's House" - Hector, Zsazsa and Kiki. :D My new PC is Roobarb... so you can probably guess what I'll be calling the laptop I eventually get to replace my current one when it finally passes on... :D

I grew up with Bagpuss, the Clangers and Ivor the Engine (Noggin was before my time, alas) and have DVDs of some of the shows on my shelf here. :) Will probably be re-watching them over Christmas...