I’ve been enlightened.
A while ago - I just checked, it was actually 2006! - I read Cay’s
Elvis Meets GlassFish
and I thought it was a cute reference to
The King.
Then yesterday I noticed that Byron’s
Mort Learns Monitoring and Administration Commands
and I thought it was about
Terri Prachett’s Mort…

Well, turns out I was wrong and they are about
Mort, Elvis and Einstein,
which are
personas
for developer classes that were used at Microsoft (we had our own back in DevPro);
check out
Wesner Moise’s note,
Nikhil Kothari’s explanation
and
Jeff Atwood’s update…