How do you escape the 'do you know computers' question?

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Published on 2009-07-16T13:20:52Z Indexed on 2010/06/11 0:13 UTC
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Most of us have already been down that road. Since what we do remotely relates to computers or just by word of mouth someone corners us and nicely asks:

Do you know computers? (smile)

And it's all downhill from there.

How do you defend yourself?

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