Comments on: Samuel Pepy's weblog

Samuel Pepy's weblog

kirkaracha — Mon, 30 Dec 2002 17:30:27 -0800

Samuel Pepy's weblog. Starting on January 1, 2003, Phil Gyford will be running Samuel Pepy's diary entries (who's he?), starting with January 1, 1660. [via Interconnected]

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Mon, 30 Dec 2002 17:40:48 -0800

Hey neat, Michael was doing this a ways back as well.

By: Mapes

Mapes — Mon, 30 Dec 2002 18:28:01 -0800

"...that he that doth get a wench with child and marries her afterward it is as if a man should shit in his hat and then clap it upon his head." Coming up on October 7, 2003 - er, 1660.

By: Postroad

Postroad — Mon, 30 Dec 2002 19:06:19 -0800

Seems an odd blog. You take a guy's diary and scan it in each day. I prefer to read a book, journal, or otherwise, at my pace rather than looking at each's day's blog entry. Butifit gets folks to read what they might otherwise not have read then it is all to the good.

By: ldandersen

ldandersen — Mon, 30 Dec 2002 19:16:16 -0800

Not to nitpick (OK--I admit it, I'm nitpicking :-), but his name was Pepys, not Pepy :-).

By: maudlin

maudlin — Mon, 30 Dec 2002 19:20:39 -0800

But his diary is available at any library if you want to read at your own pace. It will be interesting if the weblog format will pique people's interest just because you have to wait for an update each day. I never read the print version despite all my good intentions, but I can add this to my start page and finally make my way through. In fact, if it's as good as it is said to be, I probably will pick up a copy to read all the way through. (And if the technology had been available to him, I think Pepys would have loved to gossip, feud with and delink other bloggers :-)

By: 327.ca

327.ca — Mon, 30 Dec 2002 20:58:22 -0800

Give me a break. This is so, like, 1660.

By: Danf

Danf — Mon, 30 Dec 2002 21:56:07 -0800

and is pronouned, "peeps". . .fyi. . . .I think that this project is so bitchen. . . .good for phil!

By: kirkaracha

kirkaracha — Mon, 30 Dec 2002 23:19:04 -0800

Not to nitpick (OK--I admit it, I'm nitpicking :-), but his name was Pepys, not Pepy :-). And I was an English major. I--I'm so ashamed. There must be some non-me person I can blame for this.

By: kewms

kewms — Tue, 31 Dec 2002 06:30:53 -0800

I'd rather read Julius Caesar's weblog, myself.

By: octobersurprise

octobersurprise — Wed, 01 Jan 2003 15:15:00 -0800

Too bad James Boswell never had a weblog.