When I first started online way back in 1981 there was no publicly accessible Internet. I was accessing local bulletin boards at the awesome speed of 300 bps, when 1200 bps came into being we thought we had died and gone to heaven. But, I digress, my nickname almost from the beginning was The_Fuzz as in the old '60's expression "Here come da Fuzz". I figured it was appropriate considering my career.

The nick remained The_Fuzz even after I first started on Internet Relay Chat. Then one night in one of my regular channels, a lady friend, "Scarlett-" was being badly harrassed by an overly aggressive male. Even after repeated warnings he would not stop. Nothing appeared to be happening as far as stopping him, so I stepped in and kicked and banned the fellow. Even then he continued so I had a little chat with him and convinced him to stop.

Scarlett_ was pleased with the intervention and made the comment "You are a knight in shining armour". At that point I added Sir to the nick. We had a short online ceremony where Scarlett_ went through the routine of dubbing me a knight. I've always loved the Medievel Era and Knights of The Round Table stories, so here was my chance to vicariously become a knight. The change was popular among all my friends online and despite trying to change it back to The_Fuzz on occassion, the nick has stuck with me.

Besides which, the logo for my Desktop Publiching and Web Page Design business is the same jousting knight you see as on my page. My business is called Blue Knight Photographics