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Twelve months in a year, twelve posts of the Dig­i­tal Couch. It has a nice sym­me­try to it.

For the final post of the year, I have been trawl­ing the inter­web look­ing for stuff that should keep you enter­tained in these last few days before a bit of a break.

So, sit back, click away and enjoy.

Nice and cosy

You know what they say, if you’re not in a Prius, you’re killing bunny rab­bits and flowers.

In the last few years, the Toy­ota Hybrid has become some­thing of a cult with a fol­low­ing of über-loyal dri­vers.

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I’m no scrooge, but there is some­thing insid­i­ous about cer­tain Christ­mas campaigns.

Now ‘get­ting into the spirit of things’ is great — I think it is a bril­liant idea — but to have the word Christ­mas in every sec­ond sen­tence to con­vince cus­tomers that “with­out X it just won’t be the same”, seems to prey on con­sumer fears rather than embrace a sense of cama­raderie and fun.

As such, the cam­paigns I’ve cho­sen this week get peo­ple excited and cre­ate a mem­o­rable experience.

Grab your eggnog and read on!

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This week, I’m tak­ing an intro­spec­tive glance at myself. This edi­tion is about search­ing, remem­ber­ing, acknowl­edg­ing and keep­ing safe. Wrap up warm, and read on…

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If you can read the above, then you should be using this ver­sion of Google for your daily search require­ments. If you didn’t under­stand the above, then click­ing on this link will be akin to chang­ing your smart­phone to Ara­bic and for­get­ting how to turn it back… 3nj0y!

Finally, a thank you.

It’s amaz­ing how quickly soci­ety moves on. The snow comes in and every­one acts sur­prised that they didn’t pre­pare for it. “We’ll be ready next year!” we all say, but then, 12 months later, we are all sur­prised again.

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