Older Photo Net Updates

First of all, a hearty congratulations to Ronan Joseph Castro Isla and Kathleen Kaye Tonelete Yap for topping the May 2003 Board Exams.  Ronan garnered 6^th Place, with a score of 89.43%, while Kathleen is 18^th with a score of 86.57%.

This brings to 6 the number of USC topnotchers from our batch:

I've made more small bug fixes which were undetected until now, and modified the description of one of the pictures, per request from the subject.  The only thing new here is:

New Pages: USC Accountancy Seniors' Graduation Retreat

For your reference and perusal, the PRC Press Release for the two board exams.  Both links open to new windows, although I recommend you right-click the link and save the files to your computer.  It's much quicker that way.

Note: You'll need Microsoft Word, or WordPad at the very least to read them.
  

Happy Easter Sunday!  After a short recess (corresponding to our busy season), new updates are now available for your perusal.  I also fixed a couple of small errors that went undetected in previous updates.  Hopefully all links should work now.

On an off-tangent note, sometimes I wonder about the type of search phrases that are typed into the search box you see on your left.  Some of these phrases are so off-topic I wonder how those who type them reach this site in the first place.

New Sections: Alegre Beach Resort Audit
New Pages: Alegre Beach Resort Audit - The Final Showdown, Rural Bank of Cebu South Audit
Updated Pages: Punongbayan & Araullo Office
   

Search engine has been fixed.  Menu is still broken on some Internet Explorer browsers, not necessarily Windows 2000 systems.  Odd that it works on IE 5.1 but not 5.5...

New Pages: Alegre Resort Audit Revisited
 

The menu is not showing on Windows 2000 systems.  Or it is otherwise showing incorrectly.  Curiouser and curiouser.  Also, FortuneCity has virtually destroyed my layout with the forced banner on top of every page.  I am currently looking for another host, with 100MB of space to offer.  If you have any suggestions, please e-mail me.

New Sections: Punongbayan & Araullo Pictures

New Pages: Alegre Beach Resort Audit, Punongbayan & Araullo Office
  

The entire site has been revamped.  I have removed the use of frames, and the color scheme has been modified - again. J  A lot of pages have been changed.  Almost all sections, in fact, have additions and modifications. 

Beginning this update, all new pages and modifications shall be reflected in the DHTML menu to your left.  Yep, I've expanded the use of the menu - it tracks down and follows as the user scrolls.  Support for a vanilla plain-text navigation bar was removed since I doubt any visitors use anything less than Microsoft's Internet Explorer 5 these days.

I've decided to use color-coded pips to indicate the status of every page, through the navigation menu.

	A black pip means the page does not exist yet.
	A yellow pip indicates there were no changes.
	A green pip means the page was updated.
	A blue pip shows an older updated page.
	A red pip indicates the page is newly created.

New Pages: CPA Oathtaking Ceremony, Testimonial Dinner, CPA Reviewers, CPA Reviewees, University Personnel

Removed Pages: Imaging Tricks, News Article Archives (These sections were unnecessary, and the Imaging Tricks section was requested to be removed by the subjects.)

Also, please note that Search capability is down.  You will definitely get broken links.
  

Success!  DHTML navigation has been implemented, and it, according to the script creators, is compatible for Internet Explorer, Navigator, and Opera browsers alike!!  This little script (Milonic DHTML Website Navigation Menu Version 3.4) is written by Andy Woolley and is copyrighted in 2002 by Milonic Solutions Limited.

From June to October, this site will largely be dormant due to real life.  Hopefully, I will be able to finish up all the remaining major section pages by November.

Corrected: Whoops!  It's not KameraWorld that took the studio shots, but KolorHaus.  Notwithstanding the free publicity for the former, I hope no one was confused by the mix-up.  The fix has been applied retroactively.

Please note that while the DHTML menu contains two new pages, namely University Personnel and Retreat, these do not yet exist.  They refer to future pages that will be created, and exist solely as a placeholder.
 

Steve's Photo Net has a completely color scheme - from the pastel greens come... the chocolatey hues of brown!  I will also be fiddling with DHTML for the navigational frames on the left and on the bottom of your screen.

A lot of sections have been added, and I have made some rearrangements.  Student Profiles and Outtakes no longer occupy just one page.  They are now accessible in two pages, one for our Junior Year, and one for our Senior Year, to facilitate faster page loading for those with slower connections.  Also, the Dogs Section has been changed to Pets Section to accommodate Ronald Yap's rabbit :)

New pages: Graduation Ball, Capitol Visit, October 14 Piano Recital,  KolorHaus Excursion, Project Feasibility Study Defense (Bluefin Tuna), and the 2001 Cebu Gospel Church Christmas Cantata.

Updates: Senior Student Profiles, Student Cliques, Senior Student Outtakes, Major Subject Teachers, Minor Subject Teachers, Teacher Outtakes, and Other People's Pets.

Hello, visitors.

It's been a long while since the last update, but at last, all of the backlog of pictures which has accumulated since November of last year has been dealt with!  Why such a long period of dormancy?  First of all, I have lost most of my data to a hard disk partition last November.  Documents dating to my elementary days were virtually wiped out because of my stupid mistake.  Fortunately, Photo Net files were on a different directory, so I was able to salvage this site, albeit with the loss of the long file names.

Because of that crash, I have lost the password to my v3space.com account, the host of Steve's Photo Net for its last two incarnations.  Attempts to retrieve the password from the site were fruitless.  The password was sent to the address I registered with, which was sqylogin@col.net.ph in this case. Unfortunately, Cebuano Online Systems terminated my account early last year, so I was left with no way out other than brute-forcing it.

I had planned to rebuild and update the site since December, but there were circumstances that prevented this.  The main reason was actually grades.  I had gotten a wake-up call from my Auditing Problems Instructor, Mr. Richard Sy Tiu, who gave me the lowest midterm grade in my entire academic history - a failing mark if the cut-off of 2.5, instead of 3.0, had applied to us graduating students.  

It has been a harrowing semester.  Notwithstanding the very high standards set by Mr. Tiu, we were confronted with the mysteries of coded Government Accounting.  The killer was probably the Project Feasibility Study, which was by far the hardest output I have gone through - bar none.  The English 4 Term Paper was far easier to accomplish.  I am happy to say that everybody in our class passed.  With class and graduation hassles out of the way, I was finally free.

Laziness intervened for about 3 weeks, as I grew fond of Chrono Cross and Legend of Mana.  These two games probably sucked 120 hours from my life, especially because of their multitude of characters and the new game plus feature.  At any rate, the site reconstruction has been a harrowing 4 days, with me almost destroying my work once, when I deleted the USC subdirectory from my computer.  Luckily, Norton Unerase was there to help.

I'm not done yet with the updating work.  There will be more to come from Steve's Photo Net!

New page: Ramon Magsaysay Essay Contest.
Pictures added: Student Profiles, Student Cliques, Student Outtakes, and Major Subject Teachers.
Netfirms Message Forum has been more or less reliable.  This will be permanent.  For your discussion purposes, go to http://sqylogin.netfirms.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard.cgi and register now!  (You will need a working e-mail address to receive your password.)
       

Our condolences to the victims yesterday's bombings on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.  Kudos to the brave men and women, and especially to New York's finest police and fire officers, who risk their lives to save others.

What transpired was a terrible act of terrorism, and the barbarians who are responsible for this savage act of war.  With the grace of the Lord, we will transcend this tragedy.

Thus begins a dangerous New World.
 

Huge update today!  I think I'm going to have to take a break after this heavy construction.  :)
New section: Recitals.
New pages: Teacher Outtakes, Alegre Beach Resort, and Recitals.
Pictures added: Student Profiles, Student Outtakes, and Major Subject Teachers.
      

New pictures added in Student Profiles, Student Cliques, Student Outtakes, and Major Subject Teachers.  Temporary fix for forums: point your browser to http://sqylogin.netfirms.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard.cgi
      

Updated all pages with the new navigation scheme.  Two new pages are added, JPIA General Assembly and Scanned Photographs, and a new picture was placed in Minor Subject Teachers.  By the way, forums are offline.  I have no idea when everything will be fixed, but do stay tuned!
 

Everything's new, actually!  After a fortnight hiatus from the Internet, Steve's Photo Net version two makes its debut once again!  Note that several sections are still under construction.  This will be quite temporary.

I had to close down the site temporarily after what happened to fellow classmate John Clemens Go.  John, along with cousin Brian Kirby Go, were murdered on May 29, 2001 inside Filmon Hardware Store, by two men.  John was slashed in the neck with a hunting knife, and died almost instantly.  Brian struggled to survive but died later in the hospital.

In a curious twist, the principal suspect, Rufino Alacre, committed suicide while in police custody, succeeding in taking his own life after seven tries.  The other suspect, Ruben Ago, is currently in police custody.

John Clemens Go and Brian Kirby Go were buried in Cempark Banilad on June 3, 2001, after a necrological service at the Carmelite Monastery.  John Clemens would have turned 20 this September 1.  He is in the Dean's List and would have been a graduating Accountancy Student at the University of San Carlos
      

Updated Profiles, Cliques, Outtakes, and Major Subject Teachers with new photos.  Also, hopefully all those pernicious 404 File not Found bugs are worked out of the system.  Thanks to Ronald Yap, Edelyn Lomotos and Jonathan Sy for the information.
 

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