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A Page of Web History - Java Lake Applets

Support for Java Lake Applets was withdrawn from modern browsers with the advent of HTML5 and JavaScript starting September 2015 with Google Chrome. Other browsers followed suite since the original Java plugin was prone to crashes and abuse by malicious coders. If you wish to see these early pages still you'll need a different plugin which safely allows such pages to display. You'll need the CheerPJ plugin and once installed you'll be able to view Java Applets of all types. Get details of the plugin from our applets.html page and return here to use it.

New versions of some of these pages are available which don't need the CheerPJ plugin.

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Round the Bend
…is a classic book by Nevil Shute. It's quite old, set in the period just after WW2. It's a classic I read in the 1960s and re-read recently. Well worth a read. Click the picture below to read some of it.
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A Town Like Alice
Another great book written by Nevil Shute is, 'A Town Like Alice' which tells the story of a young woman, captured by the Japenese in WW2. She survived a prison camp and discovers she has been left a legacy (the book was published in the US as 'Legacy'). She uses it to travel and discovers a man she thought dead survived a brutal execution. She travels to Australia to reunite and in the process invigorates a sleepy backwater town.
Get the ebook at Amazon

Should Smartphones be allowed in schools?
Whenever smartphones in schools are debated, the discussion almost immediately splits into two camps: total prohibition or complete permission. We seem to be very concerned about the harm that can be done but often ignore that they could become a vital education resource.
Just as teachers in the early 2000s woke up to the impact of camera phones, somthing new will have an even greater impact. Check out the blog on this.