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A regular part of my job as a computer technician is acting as a grief counselor when I have to break the news to clients that their beloved computer has a fatal illness or already has gone to that great internet café in the sky.

Have you ever seen one of those roadside displays that say “Your speed is …?”

When I wanted to place an order online with Wal-Mart, I tried to pull up its U.S. website at walmart.com but every time I tried that I was instantly redirected to its Mexican site at walmart.com.mx.

As this column goes to press in the middle of April, 2014, I am anticipating something that has not yet actually happened to me.

In the 1997 movie “Conspiracy Theory” Mel Gibson plays the role of a paranoid genius who sees evil schemes everywhere and believes the CIA, KGB and other three-letter agencies are all out to get him.

While I was waiting in the customer service line in the office of one of the local Internet Service Providers (ISPs) I could not help but overhear someone’s complaint.