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May 27, 2010.
We apologize for our lack of time in maintaining this website.
We have all your feedbacks from November 29, 2009 saved in our Inbox
and we will eventually post them as soon as we find some spare time.
It will be a while before we can put the slideshow back online as we
just don't have the time right now to re-do the slideshow. We
are really touched by your daily feedbacks and are deeply saddened
that we are unable to put the slideshow back online at this time.
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September 1, 2009.
We are deeply touched by the constant feedbacks we are getting
from our viewers wishing to see the slideshow back online. That give
us the inspiration and motivation to continue maintaining this
not-for-profit website despite constant litigation threats from
people/companies who want to profit from the slideshow.
Unfortunately, the hunt for non-copyrighted pictures is quite a slow
process because of the limited amount of time we have in managing
this website. Please be patient. We will definitely put this
slideshow back online.
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August 2, 2009.
The Slideshow was taken offline due to copyright claim by Getty
Images on the pictures that were used in the slideshow which were
taken from the original powerpoint presentation entitled Tribute to
Dad from an anonymous source.
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May 26, 2009.
The Arizona mirror sites courtesy of Mike's Maze was discontinued.
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August 18, 2008.
Due to the difficulties that we are experiencing in obtaining the
necessary copyright permission for the background music, we regret
to say that we are unable to proceed with the production of the
CD/DVD version at this time.
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June 18, 2008. The South Africa mirror site is temporarily offline. The owner is
changing web server. We will reactivate it soon.
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April 8, 2008.
We have added a new mirror site in Europe courtesy of
www.sandeepraval.com.
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January 24, 2008.
To date, we have received about 4,000 requests for the CD/DVD version
of the slideshow. Unfortunately, we are still unable to obtain
the necessary copyright permissions for the use of the background
music in the CD/DVD version. Please be patient. We are currently
looking at some alternatives and we will definitely notify you by
email if and when we are able to go to production.
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December 24, 2007.
Songhe Fragrant Rice in Singapore placed an advertisement in
today's edition of the Strait Times with the wordings of the Parents' Wish slideshow.
Click here to view the advertisement.
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November 12, 2007.
Thanks to your generosity (especially to Narendra Lakshminarasimha),
I now have sufficient operating funds to keep this website online for
the next two years. As promised, I will now stop receiving your
donations.
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September 29, 2007.
Feedbacks publication delay is now down to 1-2 days.
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September 10,
2007. There is at the moment about ten days delay in the publication of the
Feedbacks. Thank you for your patience. We are on a standstill
in our quest for obtaining the necessary copyright permissions for the
CD/DVD version as we can't seem to get the right person. We still do
not have a timeframe as to when we can make the CD/DVD version
available.
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July 9, 2007.
While the great majority of feedbacks we receive on this slideshow are
positive, once in a while we receive negative comments from people who
think that they might be sending their children on a guilt-trip if
they see this slideshow. I've added item 20 in the FAQ to address this issue.
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July 8, 2007.
We have finally caught up on the posting of your feedbacks. Your
feedbacks will now appear the following day.
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June 30, 2007.
The Webmaster is now accepting voluntary donation to help keep this
slideshow FREE for online viewing. This request will remain until I
have gathered enough funds to keep this website running for the next
two years.
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June 29, 2007.
Delay in feedback publication is now down to about 10 days. Thank you
for your patience.
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May 24, 2007.
There is about a 20 days delay in the publication of feedbacks to the
slideshow. No positive news yet on our quest for the CD/DVD copyright
permission on Josh Groban's music. Thank you for your patience.
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April 11, 2007.
The link to the mirror site in Massachusetts was removed because the
anonymous viewer who so kindly offered to act as a mirror site at a
time when we were in desperate need for one has moved his web services
to another provider.
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April 8, 2007.
We have added our sixth mirror site based in Sacramento, California
courtesy of www.InspirationLine.com
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March 21, 2007.
There is currently a 27 days delay in the publication of feedbacks to
the slideshow. Thank you for your patience.
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March 6, 2007.
There is currently a 35 days delay in the publication of feedbacks to
the slideshow. Thank you for your patience.
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February 23, 2007.
We are still trying to obtain the necessary copyright permissions for
Josh Groban's background music to be included in the CD/DVD version.
We apologize for the delay as we are going through a lot of red tapes.
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February 22, 2007.
We have started posting the feedbacks again. There is currently about
45 days delay in the publication of your feedbacks. We apologize for
the delay.
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December 27, 2006.
Due to some personal matters that the webmaster has to attend to, we
are unable to post and reply to your feedbacks temporarily.
Please be patient. We will post them and reply to your queries as soon
as we can.
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November 27, 2006.
We have added our fifth mirror site based in South Africa courtesy of
www.WhySpirit.com.
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October 15, 2006.
We have added our fourth mirror site
based in Arizona courtesy of
Mike's Maze.
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August 14, 2006.
The Singapore mirror site is now operational again.
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August 4, 2006.
The Singapore mirror site is temporarily out of service due to some
maintenance work that they are doing.
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July 29, 2006.
The Single Parent version of the slide show (as requested by many of
our viewers) is now available.
Click here
for Father's Wish.
Click here
for Mother's Wish. I would like to thank my volunteer FLASH
artist (Rolando
Celestino Malinis) for taking time out from his busy schedule to
get these versions out. The photos, however, are the same for
all versions as we are still trying to gather the appropriate photos
to accompany the Single Parent versions. Please bear with us.
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July 27, 2006.
Our mirror site in Long Island, New York could not handle the
bandwidth consumption of the slideshow so we had to take it offline.
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July 22, 2006.
We received quite a few feedbacks from our viewers that they were
unable to view the texts of the slideshow from our main site because
of the July 17 update we did. We restored the original format
back. If you will still have problems viewing the slideshow from our
main site, please let us know.
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July 17, 2006.
The flash movie file in the main site has been updated using a newer
FLASH version 8. If you will have difficulties playing the movie
from the main site, please let us know so we can revert to the old
version. We will keep the old version in our mirror sites until we
have tested this new version fully in the main site.
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July 17, 2006.
We added a new mirror site based in Long Island, New York.
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July 12, 2006.
Our volunteer Flash designer found some spare time last night to make
the following changes in the slideshow: modified the sound of the
ocean at the end of the slideshow (courtesy of one of our anonymous
viewer; changed the title of the slideshow from PARENT'S WISH to
PARENTS' WISH; modified some of the wordings of the slideshow
based on our viewers' suggestions (THANKS, viewers!). Some of the more
popular suggestions (eg, a separate version for single parents and
ethnic/gender representation) can not be implemented at this time as
they require more time to implement.
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July 1, 2006.
We
are switching to our new web server today. Viewers to the website may
experience some difficulties connecting to this site for the next 2-3
days.
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June 25, 2006.
An individual who prefer to remain Anonymous offered his server in
Massachusetts as our second mirror site.
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June 24, 2006.
We opened a new web hosting account with a 1,500Gb monthly transfer limit. This will
serve as our main server and the slideshow is now available
for viewing on this new server. We will be adding another
mirror site shortly.
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June 23, 2006.
You may now view the slideshow from an alternative viewing site based
in Singapore (courtesy of Adrian Foo). THANK
YOU SO MUCH, ADRIAN! He is dedicating this mirror site to his
parents.
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June 22, 2006. Adrian
Foo from Singapore has offered to host the movie file temporarily from
his web server for free. Our FLASH artist is making changes on the FLASH movie
file to allow the links to work from his Singapore based server.
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June 21, 2006.
Our account has reached 900Gb bandwidth consumption for the month of
June (with still 9 more days to go) and this is already over our
monthly 750Gb limit. With this site now averaging about 60Gb
transfer per day, this will cost us an additional $125 per day on top
of our monthly fixed hosting fee. Since we can not afford to pay this
additional charge, we have to temporarily suspend the viewing of the
FLASH movie and redirect all HTML requests to our other site at paete.org.
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June 14, 2006.
Our web hosting account was upgraded to allow for a 750Gb monthly transfer limit in order to
accommodate the growing number of visitors to the site.
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June 13, 2006.
We are still working out copyright issues in the publication of the CD
version of the slideshow. Production has not began yet.
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June 12, 2006.
Parentswish.com registered 104,758 unique visits and 57.02Gb transfer
for a single day.
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June 5, 2006.
Parentswish.com registered 65,544 unique visits and 36Gb transfer for
a single day.
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May 31, 2006.
Parentswish.com registered 37,711 unique visits and 20Gb transfer for
a single day.
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May 14, 2006
(Mother's Day). The FLASH version of the movie was completed by
Rolando Malinis and was published at parentswish.com for public
viewing.
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May 12, 2006.
We opened a web hosting account for parentswish.com with a 400Gb monthly transfer limit.
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April 28, 2006.
The domain parentswish.com was registered in order not to
burden the load of paete.org when the slideshow comes back online.
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April 17, 2006.
Rolando Celestino Malinis offered to convert the movie file into a
FLASH format for free in order to reduce the movie size and the load
on the web server.
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March 19, 2006.
The web host of paete.org suspended the account because
the slideshow was averaging 35,000 views (unique visits) a day and was putting
too much load on their web server.
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August 10, 2005. A modified
version of the Tribute to Dad slideshow in Windows Media format and
with Josh Groban's 'You Raise Me Up' as background music was
published at paete.org with the new title 'Parent's Wish'.
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August 8, 2005.
A friend (Glenn Fernandes) forwarded me an email with a PowerPoint attachment entitled
"Tribute to Dad".
The author on the PowerPoint file was listed as: Ricardo Venegas
Ortega.
