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Tucows To Host First Quarter Fiscal 2004 Financial Results Conference Call

Here’s the news release:

TORONTO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–May 5, 2004–Tucows Inc. (OTCBB: TCOW) will

host a conference call today, Wednesday, May 5, 2004, at 5:00 p.m. (ET)

to discuss its first quarter fiscal 2004 financial results.

This call is being webcast by CCBN and can be accessed at Tucows’ web site at www.tucowsinc.com or from www.ccnmatthews.com.

The webcast is also being distributed over CCBN’s Investor Distribution

Network to both institutional and individual investors. Individual

investors can listen to the call through CCBN’s individual investor

center at www.companyboardroom.com

or by visiting any of the investor sites in CCBN’s Individual Investor

Network. Institutional investors can access the call via CCBN’s

password-protected event management site, StreetEvents (www.streetevents.com).

About Tucows

Tucows Inc. is a leading wholesaler of Internet services to a global

network of more than 6,000 resellers such as ISPs and web hosting

companies. Tucows provides a range of outsourced Internet services and

products, including: domain name registration and management, digital

certificates, managed DNS, and email services. The company is the

largest ICANN-accredited wholesale domain name registrar. Tucows also

distributes software and other digital content through its global

network of affiliates offering more than 40,000 software titles. For

more information, please visit: www.tucowsinc.com.

I’ll probably listen in as I work hard on the Blogware manuals and other developer relations initiatives. I understand Boss Ross

will also be working hard on getting Blogware 1.0 out the door, so he

will forego his usual Financial Results Conference Call ritual, in

which he strips naked, covers himself with barbecue sauce and rolls

around in a large pile of freshly-minted 50 and 100 US dollar bills.

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Carnival of the Canucks #18 at Vicki’s "Just in From Cowtown"

I’m a day late announcing the newest entry in the Carnival of the Canucks, the regular linkfest of Canadian blogs. Vicki Smith is ringleading this one — be sure to see her entry, as well as the rest of her blog, Just in From Cowtown!

(Sorry for being a bit tardy, Vicki. Been busy.)

Once again, credit goes to David “Ranting and Roaring” Janes for ringleading the Carnival.

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I hate it when someone beats me to a good joke

Last Sunday, Paul, The Redhead and I were enjoying an Atkins-friendly meat-a-riffic lunch at the Korean Grill House when Paul mentioned something about having your cake and eating it too.

Paul and I had recently seen the Dalai Lama at SkyDome,

and the bit about his interest in quantum physics must’ve stuck in my

brain. “Sure, you can have your cake and eat it too,” I quipped, “…if

it’s quantum cake!”

This amused Paul and I to no end; Wendy just shook her head at the

transformation of her boyfriend from sexy high-functioning geek to drooling Monty Python movie-quoter.

Later, I decided to Google the phrase “quantum cake”

to see if I’d come up with a truly original joke that would eventually

find its way to the web and earn me fame, fortune, money for nothing

and chicks for free. (It’s happened once before, and my joke pops up from time to time.)

It turns out that I’m almost original. Google returned a single page of results, one of which is this scientific paper on the subject (here’s the PDF version, and here’s an HTML conversion).

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Good News, Bad News

The good news: Dad is better now, and he was released from the hospital today at noon.


The bad news: My maternal

grandfather, Saturnino Ador Dionisio II, who’s in his early nineties,

isn’t doing so well. The situation is such that my mother and her two

brothers, all of whom live either in Toronto or relatively nearby, have

booked a flight for Manila.

We had a “Welcome back, Dodo” (“Dodo” is the way my nephew Aidan

mispronounces “Lolo”, which is Tagalog for “grandfather”) / “Bon Voyage

Yoya” (“Yoya” is how Aidan mispronounces “Lola” — “grandmother” in

Tagalog) dinner tonight. Mom flies out tomorrow — safe

trip, Mom.

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Busy Week

I’ve had my hands full lately.

Wendy The Redhead came up to Accordion City

last weekend, and among her myriad gifts is the ability to keep me away

from my beloved PowerBook and by extension, blogging. Her visit was

wonderful, but I’ll have to blog it later.

On Saturday morning, I got a phone call notifying me that Dad had

fallen ill with fever-like symptoms and was taken to the intensive care

unit at St. Joseph’s Hospital. Wendy and I paid him a visit shortly

afterwards, but he wasn’t awake, We visited again the day after, when

he was awake and looking better. Dad likes Wendy, and he told her

stories about the time we lived in Boston. I’m sure that seeing her

also gave him the inspiration to make more plans; Dad’s jumped several

steps ahead of me and is already thinking of where to hold the wedding

reception.


Please note:

Before we start spreading any crazy rumours around the Internet, I have

not asked Wendy to marry me — that’s just Dad being Dad. I do,

however, need new “everyday” dishes and cookware; feel free to send ’em

anyway. Wendy would like a pair of green Converse shoes, men’s size 5.

Dad’s still in the hospital for observation. As I write this, we still have no idea when he’s getting out.

In the meantime, I also have my hands full cranking out the manuals for Blogware,

which is expected to see its 1.0 release very shortly. The Reseller

Manual measures about 80 pages when printed, while the Publisher (that

is, end-user) Manual looks like it’s going to break past 500.

As you may have guessed, entries might be a bit sparse this week. I’ll

try and squeeze in some time to get in an entry every day, but they’ll

be shorter than usual.

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Even More Pics From the Annual Review

Suw “Chocolate and Vodka” Charman watched my review as she had dinner and took a lot of screenshots, including this one:

“On second thought, we’re both fired.”

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Another Pic From My Employee Review

Ross: So, would you like to start off by making a statement?

Me: As a matter of fact, I would.

Ross: Go ahead.

Me: I would like to warn you

that I have taken some special precautions. If at any point I find that

I do not like the way the review is going, I have a sniper who’s taken

a position in the rafters who will shoot you.

Ross: I’m going to call you bluff and kick your ass to the curb. You are now the former Technical Community Development Coordinator, my friend.

Me (into hidden lapel mic): Blofeld to Jaws: Eliminate Mr. Bond.

Ross: You don’t scare me with your fakety-fake “supervillain” act, Mister Accodion Chu–ACK!

Thanks to Andy “termie” Smith for the pic!