Simon Cozens, a programmer, preacher, and translator, took Sei Shonagon’s Pillow Book, documenting 10th Century CE life in the Japanese Court, and translated it as if it were written in the style of a young woman’s Live Journal:
[ From things that piss Shonagon off ] When someone gets ill and you call the exorcist - and then he’s out, and you have to get your messengers to go looking for him. And then you wait for ages, and he finally shows up and you ask him to start praying, but he’s completely knackered and by the time he actually starts praying he’s half-asleep. Pain in the ass.
He built it in Bryar, his CPAN module for weblogs which uses Template Toolkit for rendering.
