What about that name?

Fawlty Towers – Probably the best comedy series ever made together with Monthy Python’s Flying Circus. I am a big fan of the Pythons and admire their creative humour a lot. Fawlty Towers, Life of Brian, Flying Circus and Terry Gilliam movies should be preserved for future generations since it is the Holy Grail of what funny really is. When you’ve worked a decade or two professionally you also realize that the corporate bullshit we all encounter to some degree is quite pythonesque.

As an IT guy you often find yourself in need of naming stuff. Most often it doesn’t matter and you name it foo, bar or something boring. But once in a while you know that this thing you are about to name will stick with you for a while and doing a sloppy job will make you pay time and time again in the future. Naming your own startup company is one such thing. Your kids, pet or sports team is another. I was in that situation when I needed to create an Azure AD (now Entra) tenant that I needed for test and demo purposes. I knew that I was going to do branding of login and web pages, so it had to be something I dared to show and not be embarrassed about. So, I decided to name my tenant fawltytowers2 in homage to the great TV series. Why the 2 suffix, you say? Well, there can only be one original and I didn’t want to register fawltytowers.com as a domain name and piss John Cleese off.