I used to do sysadmin consulting, and one of our clients had a new director of IT come in. One of his first orders of business was to have us rename all the ho

I used to do sysadmin consulting, and one of our clients had a new director of IT come in. One of his first orders of business was to have us rename all the hosts (around 100 of them) from role-based names (db01, web01, storage01) to city names. So when an alert came in at 3am that "mulhouse" is down, you had to know that Mulhouse is a French city AND France denotes database machines. And the city names were often fairly obscure, of the 100 names, I had only heard of a handful of them. "Is that name Icelandic or Finnish?" That director of IT didn't last long.