You know you have been bitten by the computer bug when

1. You wear more of those free T-shirts given by computer vendors than other T-shirts.
2. You are transformed from a quiet, reserved observer to an animated conversationalist when someone says the magic word 'computer'.
3. The word 'chip' brings on thoughts of CPU chips and RAM chips rather than potato chips or chocolate chips.
4. You give names to your computers rather than your pet fishes.
5. You mourn over the demise of your 486.
6. Your girlfriend complains that you spend more time playing on your computer than spending quality time with her. Your solution is to buy her a computer so that she can join you in multi-player mode. (Substitute words for the opposite gender if you are a female.)
7. You seek out and issue Deathmatch challenges to known high scorers to fight it out in some computer games.
8. You know the history of computers better than the history of Singapore.
9. People you know (and don't know) look to you for advice on computers.
10. Your colleagues would turn to you first for answers before looking at online help files.
11. You wear a permanent five-o'clock shadow despite sleeping a full eight hours each night.
12. Due to a shortage of funds, you would rather spend the time with your computer at home than go for a holiday during your vacations.
13. You prefer to sing karaoke over your computer than the TV.
14. C/Net Central is one of your favourite television programmes.
15. You have almost forgotten that a mouse used to mean a nasty little rodent.
16. You would always check out the Internet first before looking for traditional sources of information.
17. You stop buying newspapers, preferring instead to read them online. You console yourself by reasoning that they are almost free.
18. You have more books on computers at home than on any other subjects.
19. Your idea of a nice coffee house is a cyber-café.