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David is an occasional blogger, software engineer, Nintendo fanboy, liberal, news magazine addict, voracious TiVo user, and bibliophile. He was born in St. Louis, grew up in southern Indiana, and returned to St. Louis to attend Washington University. He hasn't managed to escape yet. He's a fan of free wine tastings, too many tv shows to name, and eating out. David makes his living developing web applications used internally by his employer. He doesn't blog about work because he's heard too many stories about that causing workplace troubles. There's more on the about page. |
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24 September 2003 - 8:04 pm
Samuel Pepys puts all bloggers to shame. Not only does he have us beat by more than 300 years, but he manages to be more personal, more entertaining, more risqué, and more interesting than most of us. I first read an abridged version of his diary in high school. I only read a few hundred highly censored pages of Pepys masterpiece, but I was hooked. The full, unabridged diary spans nine volumes plus companion and index volumes, but I hope someday to read it. In the meantime, I've been reading pepysdiary.com. It's Pepys as a weblog. The site started on January 1, 2003 and is posting one entry per day. I'll update you in another eight and a half years to see if they made it all the way through the diary, but in the meantime, I'd recommend you go over tot he site and read it. It's been annotated by visitors, so its easy to figure out who all the various people Pepys meets and writes about are. The only caveat is that the site is based on the 1893 edition of Pepys's diary, and the Victorian sensibilities of the editors invade it. So you won't here any of the details of Pepys's trysts or his wife's various gynecological conditions. Although you probably wouldn't much understand them. Pepys was very vague and usually resorted to a combination of French and Latin when he mentioned them. Anyway, visit the site. Its a lot of fun.
Posted by on 24 September 2003 at 8:05 PM
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That language is great. As hard as I try to write well, I don't think I will ever much the experience of reading that. Except perhaps to people reading me in 300 years.
Posted by Nathan on 24 September 2003 - 9:03 PM