'And' is a female word

There's a meme going round at the moment in which you enter your LiveJournal user name into a box and it generates an analysis of your journal content: whether the writing has a masculine or feminine basis, whether it deals with the past, present or future, and other stuff like that. So I did the meme - don't worry, I'll spare you the whole result - and discovered that my 'general message is distinguished by verbosity', which is a fair cop. I was more surprised to find that it analysed my writing style as predominantly male. I'd always thought the way I write was quite obviously female, but perhaps that's because I know I'm female. Although, reading a bit more about it, the gender basis is determined by counting the occurrences of certain words - 'and' is counted as female and (ha!) 'the' as male - so I'm not sure that I'd take that to be wholly reliable.

June 30 was the end of the financial year here (happy new year!), so I've been busy all day doing payroll stuff. How much do I hate my payroll software, the stupidly named Payroll Pro Professional? This time last year, I spent half a day on the phone, pretty much equally divided between being on hold and fruitlessly trying to explain that the payment summaries for a handful of my employees weren't printing correctly (in fact, weren't printing at all). In the end I gave up and ordered some stationery from the Tax Office and wrote them by hand. This year, I realised the (updated) software was doing the same thing, so I saved myself a lot of heartache and wrote the problem half-dozen out straight away using the left-over stationery from last year. So take that, Payroll Pro Professional!