mathowie: I went by the Jargon File's origin, although yours sounds more hackish.

I often mistype "porn" as "pron" and have occasionally gone into Jeff K. territory with typos like "liek" and "teh".

Pat: You're very welcome!

Not only are you going to get the tech-speak decoded for you, but you'll also get Cory Doctorow former-lieutenant insider knowledge as well. There's a lot of Cory in this story.