The Meaning of Liff

Today's bit of flagrant copyright violation: the complete text (well, looks like it to me, anyway) of the book by John Lloyd and the late great Douglas Adams.

The Meaning of Liff.

"In Life*, there are many hundreds of common experiences, feelings, situations and even objects which we all know and recognize, but for which no words exist. On the other hand, the world is litterered with thousands of spare words which spend their time doing nothing but loafing about on signposts pointing at places. Our job, as we see it, is to get these words down off the signposts and into the mouths of babes and sucklings and so on, where they can start earning their keep in everyday conversation and make a more positive contribution to society."

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* And, indeed, in Liff.

And now for something completely different

Not a piece of my own writing, but the longest piece I've edited for Heise yet so far.

Signing emails with DomainKeys Identified Mail: Cryptography against phishing and spam

7 pages. Tell you how to set up your email server to digitally sign outgoing emails, to make them traceable. Good stuff if you're into that kind of thing.