ooooh, take THAT, ex-colony!

Most British swear-words have a history longer than that of the United States itself...

The BBC's h2g2 discusses swearing.

in other news

Evidently it's time for my annual, or however often it happens, generic throat infection. Nothing makes me feel quite so good as having spent the entire night alternating between "I'm cold!" and "I'm hot!", while trying to figure out the least painful way to swallow. Sleep? Hahahahah. You jest, surely. On the plus side, I seem to be past the worst of it already. It seems like going to the chemist for some Sudafed would probably be a waste at this point, so I'll just stick to mushy food and keeping warm.

further adventures in reverse-engineering

I got some help from the owner of a device that differs from mine, and for which Sony provides a slightly different version of the MP3FileManager drag-and-drop toy, and between us it appears we've figured out how to get my MPLE code to work with his NW-E55. There are still some rough edges on the code and I'm waiting for confirmation from him that it actually works, but hurrah, and down with the Man, and all that crap. Actually from poking at Sony's downloads page, it would appear that supporting the E55 buys me support for another half-dozen devices for free.