WEBSITE DIARY
27 Nov 2024
The intention to create the Website Diary recording my journey for the purpose, including the many difficulties and challenges confronting us, the steps adopted by our Team in overcoming the hurdles, to arriving at the different milestones, was conceived some 15 years ago.
Over the past 15 years, I have been spending considerable amount of time in the research, construction and testing of what I consider an efficient filing system to meet the requirements of satisfying our Website Slogan of gaining access to both our personal and business databases at our fingertips.
If we analyze the success of any person in life, one common attribute for almost all successful personalities will include their ability to get their personal and business affairs organized. It is also evident that one must have an efficient filing system to both his private and business databases to aspire the definition of being organized.
The DVPC Filing Solutions is a system designed to provide quick and comprehensive access to all details included in our system.
It is the intention of the Website Diary to record and to share the many challenges we faced in getting the system off the ground to a stage ready to be test driven to potential users so that they will have the peace of mind that they will be in control of their databases on a 24/7 basis. This practically means that the users can be holidaying in Honolulu in the States or Boracay in the Philippines and are able to access their databases in the small hours of the night, provided they have access to the internet.
It was my dream to achieve access to my databases mentioned above and it was this dream which provides the driving force for me in the past 15 years so that I may be able to share this facility to enable more people in the world to get themselves organized with the functions provided by the DVPC Filing Solutions.
From time to time, I shall be entering entries in this Web Diary recording major milestones achieved, including any failures or successes we encountered on the way. It is of course not my intention to record the mundane details of the day-to-day routines. In fact, I shall share my experiences with our viewers on the more interesting features we meet on our journey, with emphasis on the failures to demonstrate that Life Is Not Meant To Be Easy. Consequently, viewers will not find a daily account in this Diary. Despite this, I still believe that the details & episodes shared in this Diary are of interest to our viewers.
Preston Chow
Web Administrator
27 Dec 2024
Looking at the records, I noticed that our last Diary Entry was made on 27 Nov 2024, a month ago. Despite the absence of any diary entries during the last few weeks, the Filing Team and I in fact have been working full steam ahead on our filing project because we have the intention to conduct our Official Launch in Feb 2025.
Understandably, we are trying hard to deliver our Official Launch as planned and we are ensuring that all the important features will be included with the goal of presenting our story in a systematic manner which will include:
1) Recounting how the idea for the creation of the DVPC System was conceived;
2) Listing out the important attributes required of an efficient filing system to ensure the users to have the ability to access both their personal and business databases on a 24/7, global basis; and
3) Detailing the agonies created by the failures in times of adversity and the joys created by successes when we were able to overcome the hurdles.
We just had a few days holidays during the 2024 Christmas, and today, we started to work again, conscious of our plan for our Official Launch in early 2025. I shall be making more entries in our Web Diary from now on, as it is my plan to provide more details to our viewers on some of the challenges confronting us in our attempt to implement our Official Launch as planned.
Preston Chow
Web Administrator
28 Dec 2024
During the construction of our project, a lot of thoughts have gone into the ways and means of bringing the attributes of the DVPC Filing System to the attention of the world. We have already prepared over 50 videos grouped under 5 Video Series. These Videos will be published on YouTube after our Official Launch, expected to be held in Feb 2025. Then, we plan to produce regular videos, at least once every other day, with a view to bringing attention to our system via the major social media platforms, including YouTube.
We are also convinced that the best way for our viewers to fully understand the strength or weaknesses of a filing system is to let them have the opportunity to actually test drive the filing system to enable them to personally experience the goods and the bads offered. Along this line of thinking, we propose to invite interested viewers to test drive our DVPC Filing System so that they would be able to personally judge if the DVPC Filing System does possess the magic we claim.
To make things easier for our viewers, we only need them to provide their names & email addresses, and they will be given the chance to test drive our system, with no obligations attached.
Our Filing Team is working hard in producing a demonstration model to be used in the Test Drive.
Preston Chow
Web Administrator
19 Mar 2025
I checked our Website Diary to note that our last entry was done on 28 Dec 2024, almost 3 months ago. At that time, I was planning to officially launch our project in Feb 2025. Again, as in the case of so many project plans, I failed.
I believe it is appropriate for me to report the reasons why I failed to launch in Feb for the record. From the commencement of 2025, I met with a series of minor challenges in life. They included small repairs to the house and a couple of minor health issues, such as:
• Leakage of the cold water tap in the bathroom
• Breakdown of the ceiling fan in the bathroom
• Hic-cup on the hot water system
• Breakdown of the refrigerator
• Shutdown for 3 days of our internet connection due to a storm
• I was sick for almost 2 weeks
• Issues with monitors on my laptop
• Software issues relating to our Filing Project
• Some minor things I forget due to old age.
They seem negligible to most people, but for someone who is in his late 70s, they present significant challenges. Luckily, all the above challenges are water under the bridge and my Team, and I finally managed to arrive at a milestone in our Filing Project where we should be able to resume the momentum in the establishment of our project. My present goal is to conduct our Official Launch in May. Our Filing Team is moving full speed ahead to achieve this revised goal.
I shall be reporting other worthwhile events in the future entries in this Website Diary.
Preston Chow
Web Administrator
03 Apr 2025
Our Filing Team had a meeting last night when we reviewed the progress of our project. We managed to decide on the format in the creation of the metadata for the lists to be connected to the SharePoint program to assist with the searching functionality.
In the next few days, the Team and I will review all the document libraries currently saved in our SharePoint site to separate the ones to be used from those to be deleted so that we can come up with the Draft Unique Database based on which we shall produce our Test Drive Database for our project.
It is evident that there are still work to be done before we can knock off a Draft Test Drive Database to enable any interested party to personally take part in test driving some pragmatic data to experience the magic of our DVPC Filing Solutions, in our attempt to entice you to subscribe to our service and to avail yourselves to have instant access to your private and business databases on a 24/7 global bases, in getting yourselves organized, to prepare you to become successful in life.
We are working hard towards the above aim and my proposed Official Launch of our project is still May 2025.
Preston Chow
Web Administrator
03 Apr 2025
Our Filing Team had a meeting last night when we reviewed the progress of our project. We managed to decide on the format in the creation of the metadata for the lists to be connected to the SharePoint program to assist with the searching functionality.
In the next few days, the Team and I will review all the document libraries currently saved in our SharePoint site to separate the ones to be used from those to be deleted so that we can come up with the Draft Unique Database based on which we shall produce our Test Drive Database for our project.
It is evident that there are still work to be done before we can knock off a Draft Test Drive Database to enable any interested party to personally take part in test driving some pragmatic data to experience the magic of our DVPC Filing Solutions, in our attempt to entice you to subscribe to our service and to avail yourselves to have instant access to your private and business databases on a 24/7 global bases, in getting yourselves organized, to prepare you to become successful in life.
We are working hard towards the above aim and my proposed Official Launch of our project is still May 2025.
Preston Chow
Web Administrator
11 Apr 2025
About a week ago, we had a meeting when we decided on some important parameters in our task to create metadata to be used for the SharePoint program in assisting our project to quickly locate the whereabouts of our records & files.
We identified the pros and cons in the creation of our metadata through the processes of using the Lists and the Document Libraries. We also conducted trainings for members of our team to create our metadata through the above 2 options. We believe that our members have now access to 2 additional tools at their disposal in data creation, an important procedure in our DVPC Filing System.
Our next step is to continue with our tasks in the creation of the DVPC Test Drive Database. As mentioned elsewhere in this site, the taste of the pudding is in the eating. It is hoped that, by giving interested parties the opportunity to test drive our system, the experience thus gained will provide the best testimony in assisting the test driver in coming to his own decision, on whether the DVPC Filing Solutions is an effective system, or an empty dream on the part of the person who conceived the idea in the first place.
Preston Chow
Web Administrator
28 April 2025
I would like to update the progress of our Filing Project in this diary entry. While most of the members of our team have been concentrating on the creation of our Test Drive Database, we also have assigned a member in the continued construction of our website.
I requested the member to investigate and to implement the necessary steps required to include:
1) A Statistics Counter onto our website to track the number of visits to our site to be commenced on the date of our Official Launch, as well as the number of requests for Test Driving.
2) An Instant Chat Box onto our website to enable questions to be asked by our viewers.
3) A Payment Feature onto our website to facilitate payment of subscription fees by potential subscribers.
We encountered some issues to implement the above steps through the SharePoint Website. We are trying to resolve the matter by exploring alternative options. I shall provide update on the development later.
Preston Chow
Web Administrator
05 Jun 2025
The slogan of DVPC Filing Solutions is “Database at Your Fingertips on a 24/7 Global Basis”. To achieve this, we need to provide a solution on how to convert data contained on hard copies into electronic images so that historical data saved in printed materials can be accessed through cloud storage.
In practical terms, apart from using the software provided by DVPC, DVPC needs to supply our subscribers with the necessary hardware and supporting stationery for this important migration process. By hardware, we mean the provision of a Speed Scanner capable of scanning 60 sheets of printed materials per minute, to save 120 pages of images and an Overhead Scanner capable of scanning materials unsuitable for the speed scanner, such as business cards and books & bound materials like instruction manuals.
By stationery items, we mean the provision of a sample supply of articles such as business card holders, arch files, hole punch, date stamp, and document dividers, etc. These items will form part & parcel of articles dispatched to our subscribers for them to process the hard copies and to systematically save them onto standardized format for permanent archive.
In preparation for the Official Launch of our project, there is a need for us to contact manufacturers & suppliers of the hardware and stationery items referred above. To this end, I am planning a trip to China to organize these supplies in around 2 weeks. I hope to report again on results of my meetings & discussions with the suppliers of the hardware and stationery items, so the subscribers will have a better understanding of the challenges we are likely to encounter in this area.
Preston Chow
Web Administrator