I've been slowly reading my way through the Diary on the linked website, a few entries at a time, since last year. I haven't tried to "sync" my read through wi

I've been slowly reading my way through the Diary on the linked website, a few entries at a time, since last year. I haven't tried to "sync" my read through with the other people reading through the diary in "real-time", one entry a day, but the fact that a bunch of the commentators on the website do, and have done so through multiple cycles starting in 2002, make the comments of the diary sort of a weird historical record in and of themselves. So you have one set of comments of people referencing the invasion of Iraq, the Indian Ocean tsunami, etc. as they were happening. Then another set 10 years later bemoaning the Great Recession, etc. Then a final set comparing events in the Diary to the COVID pandemic. And on top of all that, the actual diary entry discussing what were currently developing events 400 years ago. Reading through an entire page at once gives a kind of weird, poignant, feeling of the passage of time.