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If you feel like you need a break from work — and who doesn’t every now and again? — and want to make your brain ache a little, let us introduce Pongout.

It’s a combination of two old video games, Breakout and Pong.

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Despite reports in many other publications that Wight Link are about to offer broadband access on their ferries, we’d advise you to not get too excited just yet.

Those who read the news wires correctly rather than just churn the press releases, will have realised that the access is for ‘captain and crew only’ at the moment.

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Many thanks to Dr Lucy Rogers from the Vectis Astronomical Society who sent through this report of the Isle of Wight Star Party that was held recently. Simon went along on the Friday night and saw Saturn for the first time. We also joined the group on the Sunday at the new Battery - report and podcast to follow next week. Ed

About forty five astronomers travelled from as far as Devon and Cambridge to take advantage of the island’s dark skies at the Isle of Wight Star Party.
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WiWhat? WiMax. Sounds great doesn’t it? It’s Wi … but to the Max. Can’t get better than that, not since Mega dropped from most people’s vocab.

What WiMAx actually gives is the ability to transfer large globs of data, wirelessly. Like WiFi … but Max-ed. It’s called IEEE 802.16 to those who like that sort of thing.

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We’ve seen a few stories floating around saying that people have been unable to send their emails to council staff - which is not good at the best of times, but when there are a lot of concerns flying around about the potential closure of 22 primary schools, it’s less than convenient.

The council claim that it’s down to an external supplier of their email services, to which many have concluded “Oh yeah, pull the other one.” (more…)