(From Duran Duran's eponymous 1981 album)

Along with Spandau Ballet, the Duranies led the UK's 'New Romantic' scene of the early 80s...big hair, big make-up and silly clothes, but completely danceable synth pop tunes some of which have somehow stayed fresh over the years. This one in particular stirs happy memories :o)

And where would we be without flash memory? It's kind of fun to look through back issues of computer and photography mags to see what was top of the pops a few years ago - the oldest mag I found lurking chez moi was a PC Advisor or something from 1999 (god knows why I kept that) which was carrying adverts for PCs with "huge storage capacity of 20GBs" with upgrades available to "a massive 40GBs" for £100!!. It makes me laugh to read that now, especially since memory prices are coming down and capacity is going up. Despite the huge technological advances over the years these cards do fail, and it's always best to have several of these bad guys in your camera bag or pocket just in case the inevitable happens. Of course, you may also want to have several at hand to satisfy your extravagant photographical needs as well :o)

Wednesday 16th's be-careful-with-that-compact-flash-memory-card-Doug entry to the Challenge; click here for other geometrically-challenged Pbasers this month