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Ubiquitous computing is about more than having multiple computers in our environment; it is also about computers venturing into completely new environments. In this paper, we examine the impact of computers in the developing world and look at why most interventions to date have failed to address the key needs of the users and their context. Through an analysis of existing software design techniques, and various case studies, we propose a new model for software creation, which we believe will address the issue of creating technologies for developing world nations.

\"The short story remains a crucial if neglected - part of British literary heritage. This accessible and up-to-date critical overview maps out the main strands and figures that shaped the British short story and novella from the 1850s to the present. It offers new readings of both classic and forgotten texts in a clear, jargon-free way\"--Provided by publisher.

Robert Cedric Sherriff’s Journey’s End, premiered in 1928, contains typical features of a play about the Great War: a frontline dugout where tensions between protagonists are repressed beneath public-school gentility and a determination to carry on against the odds. A colonel orders a foolhardy raid on a German trench; seven men die. There are brave young officers, and there are good-humoured working-class soldiers – but it is left to an alcoholic captain, a former captain of ‘rugger’, to reflect on the horror before leading his men out to die against the Friedensturm (the German offensive of March 1918). The play

Web applications are usually installed on and accessed through a Web server. For security reasons, these Web servers generally provide very few privileges to Web applications, defaulting to executing them in the realm of a guest ac- count. In addition, performance often is a problem as Web applications may need to be reinitialised with each access. Various solutions have been designed to address these security and performance issues, mostly independently of one another, but most have been language or system-specic. The X-Switch system is proposed as an alternative Web application execution environment, with more secure user-based resource management, persistent application interpreters and support for arbitrary languages/interpreters. Thus it provides a general-purpose environment for developing and deploying Web applications. The X-Switch system's experimental results demonstrated that it can achieve a high level of performance. Further- more it was shown that X-Switch can provide functionality matching that of existing Web application servers but with the added benet of multi-user support. Finally the X-Switch system showed that it is feasible to completely separate the deployment platform from the application code, thus ensuring that the developer does not need to modify his/her code to make it compatible with the deployment platform.

According to Richard Altick the play's 'electrifying \"telegraph scene\" immediately became a classic of Victorian sensational melodrama and was partly responsible for the play's remaining in the popular repertory for at least two decades'.1 In 1866, many observers marvelled that translation from page to stage had taken so long especially since stage versions of other best-sellers - Oliver Twist, Jack Sheppard, Jane Eyre and The Woman in White - had followed swiftly on their first appearance. The Era noted how theatres like the Victoria required the author to put on a kind of 'literary harness', a contraption that would be comfortable enough as long as he (or she) remembered 'two exigencies': 'one is the company, which must be \"brought in\"; and the other is the audience, whose peculiar tastes have to be consulted.'18 The same paper went on to note how Nadeshta the Slave, performed in January 1851, provoked particularly 'strong interest', with the 'truly free and liberal sentiments and excellent moral conveyed causing it to be received with deafening applause'.19 The previous year, a production of Mary Clifford; or the Foundling Apprentice Girl, based on a notorious real-life case in which Mrs Brownrigg was executed at Tyburn in 1767 for torturing her defenceless servant to death, also 'excited the deepest sympathies', with the audience reportedly taking a dim (and very vocal) view of Brownrigg's 'demonic cruelty'.20 This awareness of audience on the part of those adaptors trying to turn popular novels into plays, and based in part on class lines, needs to be acknowledged when examining individual adaptations such as Mary Barton, or versions of the same source text across different theatres. The belief among contemporary theatre critics that Victoria audiences had an addiction to 'red-fire and slaughter'23, which could only be assuaged by regular doses of 'highly-spiced' dramas, played a large part in determining the contents of the Victoria programme - to the extent that plays devoid of 'intense sentiments, striking ideas, highly wrought characters and tremendous conflicts' would not be performed.24 In his famous account of the audience response to Bill Sykes dragging Nancy round the stage by her hair ('one loud and fearful curse, yelled by the whole mass like a Handel Festival chorus'), the impresario John Hollingshead was in no doubt that the 'fifteen hundred perspiring playgoers' in the Victoria gallery came for villainy and escapism and that what they wanted was 'an explosion' of passion and 'raillery'.25 Premiering on 17 February 1851, John Courtney's adaptation of Mary Barton thus appeared at a theatre that followed a clearly defined commercial and artistic strategy. The alternative was that the body 'would be used for anatomical purposes' and here, the paper recorded, 'the old man cried bitterly'.37A month earlier in January, under the heading 'The Waterloo Road Nuisance' a report told how Caroline Lingdon 'a common prostitute' had been sentenced to prison for being 'drunk and annoying male passengers in Waterloo Road, an offence which has lately become a most intolerable nuisance in that thoroughfare'.38 The other side of the coin was demonstrated on 22 February, when Bell's noted the 'charges of the grossest possible description' brought against a local surgeon, William Grey Smyth, accused of drugging and raping several working-class girls from the New Cut, some as young as twelve.39 These reports on society's casualties, both in the press and in the courts, show the diversity of different fears and ideas that were being aired; and the ways in which a play like Mary Barton could resonate with emotive local issues.

This authoritative reference work examines literary and artistic responses to the war's upheavals across a wide range of media and genres, from poetry to pamphlets, sculpture to television documentary, and requiems to war reporting.

Web applications are usually installed on and accessed through a Web server. For security reasons, these Web servers generally provide very few privileges to Web applications, defaulting to executing them in the realm of a guest account. In addition, performance often is a problem as Web applications may need to be reinitialised with each access. Various solutions have been designed to address these security and performance issues, mostly independently of one another, but most have been language or system-specific. The X-Switch system is proposed as an alternative Web application execution environment, with more secure user-based resource management, persistent application interpreters and support for arbitrary languages / interpreters. Thus it provides a general-purpose environment for developing and deploying Web applications. The X-Switch system's experimental results demonstrated that it can achieve a high level of performance. Furthermore it was shown that X-Switch can provide functionality matching that of existing Web application servers but with the added benefit of multi-user support. Finally the X-Switch system showed that it is feasible to completely separate the deployment platform from the application code, thus ensuring that the developer does not need to modify his / her code to make it compatible with the deployment platform.