Accepting his stepdad and my two new children was hardest for him at first as he had an explosive temper and always reacted without thinking which lead to many a trashed toy or room.

The goal of the MUM 2002 conference is to provide an international forum for presenting recent research results on mobile and ubiquitous multimedia, and to bring together experts from both academia and industry for a fruitful exchange of ideas and discussion on future challenges. The chairs and organizers of the MUM 2002 conference warmly thank keynote speakers, lecturers of tutorials, authors of contributed papers, delegates and sponsors for their contributions.

MUM 2007 is a leading annual international conference, which provides a fast track for presenting latest research results on mobile and ubiquitous multimedia. The conference brings together experts from both academia and industry for a fruitful exchange of ideas and discussion on future challenges. The conference is organized in co-operation with ACM SIGMOBILE and IEEE Finland Section. Conference proceedings will be archived in the ACM Digital Library. MUM 2006, Stanford, USA. MUM 2004, College Park, USA.

An honest account of being a first time mum. Toddlerdom is not like this.