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As announced a few weeks ago, The Knight Shift is undergoing some major renovation/rejuvenation/regeneration. If this site (and that IS what this is now, a full-bore website with real hosting) looks a bit wonky at times fret not! It is just I, your friend and humble narrator, tinkering on the other side of your screen. It seems that my basic HTML skills are as sharp as ever, I have lost nothing at all in the three decades since I first learned how to make web pages. But I’ve never used WordPress until now and there’s something of a learning curve. I wound up asking ChatGPT for themes appropriate for a personal blog, and it listed a few possibilities. This theme you’re currently looking at is MorningTime and it’s being a real pleasure to build with it.

And just for old time’s sake, here is the “weird spinning head of ...

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EDIT: A good friend sent me this graphic.  It’s as apt for this situation as any other:

 

A recent post on this site has provoked a larger than usual amount of nitwits.  It seems a good time to reiterate some things…

Ever since the start of this blog more than twenty years ago, I have welcomed vigorous discussion and debate in the comments sections of the posts.  I have also allowed for anonymous comments to be made.  My policies about that have been more liberal than a lot of sites on the Intertubes.

Last month, as a result of some people abusing the rules of polite society when commenting, I turned on moderation of comments.  It is now set to publish a comment only after I approve of it.

Many of the comments that had been made were laden with profanity and obscenity.  They were not the writings of ...

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In the beginning…

Friday, January 02, 2004

Here we go, fast and furious…

I made an attempt to start a blog in March of last year. And it woulda
been a fun thing to have done last year, had real-life situations not
taken precedence. In a nutshell, 2003 was one major fiasco after
another. But God brought us through, none the worse for wear and maybe a
little more wiser for all of it. 2004 is starting out with things
looking far more on the upside for my lovely lil’ spousal overunit and
myself.

Anyhoo, my name is Christopher Knight and this is my
blog. I’m 29 years old, presently living in north-central North Carolina
with my bride of a little more than a year… At the moment I do
payroll and computer work for a retailer here in town, although that
will soon be changing as I’ve begun

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The Knight Shift, Facebook, like meAt long last, this blog has a bona-fide presence on Facebook!  It’s been up for awhile now but I wanted to make some posts on it to sorta “furnish the place” before going public with it

Anyhoo, the URL thingy is facebook.com/theknightshiftblog (pretty clever, huh?).  The Facebook site’s primary function will be to share posts that I make here on the blog.  But I also have plans to use it for other neat stuff: anything from previews for coming attractions to emergency posts from the field when full-blown blogging isn’t an option, to… dunno, maybe a recipe or two.  I aim to have the place as hopping with seemingly random iotas of information, thoughts and wild ideas as this blog is.

Okay well… “like” me, why don’cha? 🙂 ...

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Last week I said that there were two new features coming to this blog: Movies I’ve Never Seen and A Sermon A Week. And the plan was to kick them off this past Sunday.

Obviously that didn’t transpire according to plan.

It was bad timing more than anything else. This past weekend I was doing the last few performances of our community theatre guild’s production of Gypsy. And then some other stuff happened and the new stuff got pushed to the backburner.

I’m now hoping to do the first Movies I’ve Never Seen sometime this coming week, and A Sermon A Week next Sunday. The stuff that’s on my plate should have cleared off by then for me to give it the attention that it deserves. I’m not worried about Movies I’ve Never Seen, except that I just have to figure out which movie that I’ve never seen ...

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As if the Being Bipolar series wasn’t enough: I’m about to put even more on this blog on a regular basis!

(Maybe it has something to do with the recent redesign of this place, that it’s just demanding lots of new content…? 🙂

The first is something that I’ve had in mind since Christmas, and is coming out of some necessity but also I think it’ll be a lot of fun: Movies I’ve Never Seen! It’s like this: my DVR is fast filling up with stuff that I’ve recorded from TCM and some other channels. And I haven’t seen them yet. Like, not ever. Even though most of these are movies that I’ve heard of all my life! Well, I’m going to begin watching them, and posting reviews of them here. Expect that to start up sometime this week.

And then, there is something that… is going to be ...

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Bet some (or maybe most) of y’all thought that I got “disappeared” into the hinterlands after that last post, aye?

Just busy on this end with work for clients, work on my new film project (especially location scouting), some conflict in realms apart from the temporal… y’know, the usual.

All that, and still feeling quite honked-off at the developments of this past week. Grrrrrr....

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As of tonight, February 20th 2010, The Knight Shift has officially hit seven figures…

…because this evening this blog received its ONE MILLIONTH VISITOR!

WOO-HOO!!!


Took just over six years, nearly 4,000 individual posts about everything from Star Wars to me running for office to restaurant reviews to crazy cult leaders to legal battle with media giants to exploits in filmmaking to travel to religion to cutting-edge science to…

What hasn’t this blog and its eclectic proprietor covered in all that time?

Well, it’s been a heck of a fun ride. And one million separate visits to what is, admittedly, a personal blog is quite a significant accomplishment. I’m thankful to have had such an audience, and I sincerely mean it when I say that I hope to continue delivering the goods – whatever they happen to be – for a long time to come.

In the meantime, y’all buy ...

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Once again, your friend and humble narrator is deeply honored to have somehow played a part in inspiring others to enter the blogosphere. This time it’s Simon, “a 30-something office worker from Hampshire, England… but that’s not the real me!” Simon has just started up the very cleverly-named Si-Napses! And he’s already hit the ground running with a review of Assassin’s Creed II and a write-up about the weather in his part of Britain (“It only snow’s maybe once every two years in England, maybe once a year if we’re incredibly lucky, but the joy that I experienced as a child when seeing snow is replaced with irritatation as an adult. And all because of our local council and its Woeful inefficiency.”)

Lookin’ good Simon! I’ll definitely be visiting yer site on a daily basis (and usually more than that 🙂...

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