An enterprising fellow named Phil Gyford is in the process of setting up Samuel Pepys’ diaries as a weblog using Movable Type, with explanatory sidebars and helpful hyperlinks embedded in the text. According to the site, new entries will be added daily beginning January 1, 2003.

Best geeky fine point: The great seventeenth-century diarist’s journal entries will also be available in both RSS v0.91 and RSS v1.0. (Via Brad DeLong.) [12:37 PM]