While thinking about what to do with the IBEX website, Hannah asked me what IBEX stands for, or, in fact, whether it stands for anything. The real answer is that it doesn’t, but then again it does. I have told this story so many times in so many different places that we realised it needs to be written down. To cut a long story short, IBEX used to be SHIM. And when it changed from SHIM to IBEX, the name was chosen as the name of an animal because we became very frustrated at t