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So you're sitting in an advertising meeting. You're a highly paid executive who has been employed because you always come up with the right idea.

You've got a new product to sell. Yes it's a snazzy mobile phone holder which sticks to the windscreen of the car.

What do you do - yes! I've got it - a woman pointing to her husband as he cleans the window (or maybe it's an Albanian asylum seeker who has swooped at the traffic lights with a squeegie bottle and sponge.) Customer: "I'll take ten please!".

Next after the success of your previous campaign you've got a huge budget to spunk - what do you do? That's right hire a 'hip' celebrity. I know - a rapper - Usher!

What next? Ah, just get him to hold the bloody thing and make 'gangsta' hand signs. No wait! Let's go for broke and get him holding TWO phones! That'll slay 'em:

Laptops are cool - people use them for social networking. Our ones are so cool young people would stand NEXT to each other socially networking on them instead of talking. Cool.

Finally what sells? Sex sells that's what! Get a lovely in her pants, stick a phone in her hand. Tell her: "Look Sexy." Wait for the orders to flood in. If not, a job on the Daily Star awaits.

Got a bit of a shock this morning when I was quickly checking emails and so on with a laptop.

My daughter, who is only newly five, came up to me while I was on the BBC homepage and asked me to click on the cbeebies icon. I didn't think much of it as I thought she's just recognised the logo from watching on television.

But no - she took control, navigated to the site, started clicking on various icons, getting directly through to the games section, started one off and began playing!

I was fairly stunned - I had thought her knowledge extended to turning on the computer and writing her name with the keyboard, which was all I had done with her.

Clearly reception classes at the local school go a bit further in their tuition than in my day!