Sailor Moon Uncensored

March 30th, 2004 Dan - Site completely recoded
Not excatly a content update, rather than an update explaining how content is arranged. Confused? Good. ^_^
As some of you many know, now and then since this past summer, I've mentioned recoding the site with PHP using MySQL databases. The phobos project delayed this a little bit, though I'm glad it did as doing the recoding project was a hell of a lot easier using a server networked with my own computer. I started this project about a month after phobos was complete and working, and finally finished it last night. Transfering all the data on the site into the databases, coding the PHP, and coding an administration center for the three of us to use to update the site a hell of a lot easier than before. We can now update the site from any computer connected to the Internet with never having to upload HTML files ever again. ^_^ With making additions and updates to the site much easier, hopefully we'll be seeing more updates and less time between those updates. Like I said in January, I wanted to start up some momentum this year, and I think it's been a good start to it and hopefully more to come.
Oh, something to note, if you have any page of the site besides the main domain bookmarked, those bookmarks will no longer work. Be sure to update your bookmarks if you have anything other than the main address bookmarked.

March 26th, 2004 Dan - More Geneon announcements
Geneon made a couple announcements yesterday evening. One that was basically being expected, the other that many fans have been waiting a while for. See my latest news article for the details.

March 11th, 2004 Dan - Contract for first two seasons to expire
Have a semi-suprising news article today regarding the future of the first two seasons of Sailor Moon. Read the latest article to see what state they're in now.

February 27th, 2004 Dan - More great deals on ADV's boxes
I thought that it couldn't get any better than yesterday, and only 24 hours later it does! See today's news article for an even BETTER deal than yesterday!

February 26th, 2004 Dan - ADV's boxes marked down in price
A new kind of news update for today, today marks the day of an awesome sale that Sailor Moon fans will love. Go see the latest news article to see!

February 24th, 2004 Dan - More Geneon announcements
Geneon keeps on pumping out title announcements and have released info in the next discs in their Signature Series line.

January 22nd, 2004 Dan - News blurb
Nothing big today, just a little tidbit from Geneon, head on over to the news to see.

January 6th, 2004 Dan - Backlog done
Let's kick off this new year with a bang! Phobos is complete, about a couple of weeks after the last update, the domain finally pointed over here, I finished setting some stuff up that I had to wait for the domain for, then I celebrated by downing a 40oz bottle of beer. And yes, I did that in the middle of the week that week it meant that much to me, I was so fricken happy when I was done. And the project has been a great success so far, no big snags as of yet, it's been a huge success.
However, when I said let's kick the new year off with a bang, phobos isn't what I was talking about. Phobos was a good way to end off 2003, what I'm talking about now is 2004, and getting some momentum started this year. So what have I done to start off the year? I have taken a HUGE chunk out of my backlog. Yesterday (it's 4AM now so I can say that =P @_@;; ) I had the day off, and I had made another New Year's resolution, and that was to get off my ass and get some work done around here, and start picking up the pace around here. I can proudly say that ALL of my two cents in every comparison is DONE. I am caught up and can keep up with Bob once he decides to get off his lazy ass to do more.
In November, my dad got my mom a 3-in-1 printer-scanner-copier thingy for her birthday, and a couple weeks ago I hooked that up for her and all, taking back to my place her old scanner. With this scanner, I have finished the SuperS coverart archive. Ok, you'll notice one "best of" VHS not there, but that tape must either not exist or not be important enough for any online retailer to have a scan of. Hell, even Geneon's own site doesn't have an image of the tape. So unless someone owns the tape and wants to scan it for me, don't expect it up. The same goes for the ADV's Sailor Moon R box, I refuse to buy it so if anyone wants to donate scans of it for the site, please e-mail me and I'll tell you what I need and what size and all. On the note of the SMR box, I've scanned parts of the SMC box having a little ADV uncut DVD cover archive as well.
People have been telling me about this for over a month now, so I've decided to report on Geneon's Signature Series line of products. This little news article gives all the details you need, and to answer this ahead of time, I don't plan to make a coverart archive for the Signature Series line since there is no difference besides an ugly red bar on the top of the products.
And I'm still going. I waited months to do this for fear that something would happen right after I posted it, just like the last editorial. Well, it looks like things are finally at a standstill to safely make a second part to my previous editorial. This editorial focuses on how ADV has responded to the issues with their releases of the uncut first two seasons.
Nope, I'm not done yet! The little segment in the "about us" section needed some updating, so I updated my stuff in there. And the section I know a lot of people have wanted to see be updated finally has. That's right, I've gone through and redone the links page, after not touching it in like a couple years I think.
With all that, I'm drained, and heading off to bed to rest up for starting more stuff when I get up. I'm not stopping now, this is a great start to the year and I'm going to make sure much more follows.

November 27th, 2003 Dan - Phobos complete
I have really good news. After two months of insanity and working hard on my free time, the phobos project is complete. The server has everything on there, it's online right now, all that's left is the wait time for the domain to point over to phobos. Then I move the forums to their rightful address, and I am DONE. (ok, I have to figure out how to make subdomains, can't do that without the domain, but you get the drift) I'm going to guess that by tomorrow or Saturday night, the domain will point to phobos, I can move the forums (which I can do from here at my parent's without a problem), and celebrate being done. I'll be going through my backlog and starting other projects next week, until then I'm just going to kick back and relax.

October 23rd, 2003 Dan - Phobos status log online
Not a real update, but something I've been meaning to do this month. I've decided to keep a mini online log on the new server, phobos, so that everyone can see the progress on the server and so I don't clog this updates page up. This log can be found on the main page and will be updated as big events happen.

October 15th, 2003 Dan - Fourms back on temp server
So things never go as smoothly for me as they should when they're so simple. Nevertheless, I have finally completed the setup of the forums. Some things I'd like to mention before they get swamped. First off, if you were already a user of the forums, please reregister with your previous username, I'm sure I don't have to explain why. Secondly, due to the nature of the situation, all bans have been lifted, so everyone has a second chance. Last, and definetly not least, I don't want to get any e-mails asking myself, Bob, or Tiff, ANYTHING about the forums being down, asking what happened, etc, because everything has been explained here, and I'm quite sick of it, and I'm sure the other two are as well. Everything regarding the forums and other domain problems has been explained and kept up to date here. I believe that's all I needed to mention, so without any further delays, let's welcome back the forums!

October 10th, 2003 Dan - ADV fixes a glitch
Let's start today with a status update. Bob, Tiff, and myself finally had a talk last night on situations regarding the site, and have come to a decision regarding the forums. In the near future, a few hours hopefully tomorrow night latest, the forums will be back up. Very sadly, they will be a fresh install, meaning no one registered and no posts whatsoever, since there has been no sign of the databases returning and still no response from the current host. This time around, the forums will be on my housemate's server, and will move to my server when I complete it. I would do the forum setup now, but I don't know how to create a database using his server so I must wait until he returns home. So why am I updating now when there's nothing to say?
Because there is something to update, which I feel is important enough not to wait to do at the same time as the forum update. Just a couple hours ago, a big announcement was made. Check out the new article, and learn how to get rid of the dub audio on episode 68.

October 8th, 2003 Dan - News article and more ranting
It's been about a week since the site has been back up since the host's hard drive crash, and sadly, nothing has really changed or happened. All problems that I mentioned before in the last update still exist now, with the exception of my e-mail. As I was typing an e-mail to the host asking about these issues, e-mail suddenly appeared from my addy here. So my e-mail account does work again, though I must ask everyone not to bother e-mailing me or Bob or Tiff if it has anything to do with the status of the server. I'll update here if anything does happen, the two of them won't find out much quicker than everyone here (eg, if they're online as I'm typing the update), so you're just wasting our, and your, time if you e-mail us regarding that. Even though I e-mailed the host Saturday night, I have yet to recieve a response from them or anything I asked about get done on its own. I understand they're having a rough time right now, but I believe I shouldn't have to wait more than 24 hours for a response inquiring about a service I pay for, 48 being REALLY nice. So until I hear something from them on anything, no subdomains, no forums, and no Bob and Tiff touching the site (though they can make me do their HTML stuff for them).
Even with all this going on, I won't stop updating the site myself when something comes up, and honestly, that's why I'm updating now. You all know me well enough that I can't make an update where I don't add something new to the site in some way now, don't you?
Over the past couple weeks, I've been keeping my eye on a certain situation. This would normally go right to the news section, but I wanted to make sure this was valid by having other people report that a certain thing did happen. Well, I've heard nothing but "it's really fixed" in some way or form, so I bring you a new news article, in which you can learn how to get the glitch in episode 25 fixed.

October 2nd, 2003 Dan - I love crashes almost as much as crappy customer service
Ok, where do I start? Well, on Monday, the site was working on a very sub-standard level. It was down for at least an hour when I first got home between class and Solid State, and came back up just before I left, but with no databases working. I figured they just needed more time to come back and hoped they would be back by the time I came home. Boy was I wrong, everything was gone. Site lasted a few more hours, databases were still down, and eventually late Monday night the whole thing went kaput. Whole thing means literally whole thing, site, databases, even my e-mail account. I knew this had to be something big, as when I went to our host's site, that was down as well. Since it was getting late, I went to bed ready to kick some ass on Tuesday.
Nothing changed by the time I got up, and their e-mail wasn't working either, so I couldn't do anything. Not long after my first work shift ended, an e-mail made it's way to me and all other customers from the host, explaining the problem. Apparentally they had slowly been shifting sites on their new systems, and that a hard drive had a fatal error on Monday night, forcing them to do a clean restart. They said that it seemed like they would be able to recover all data from just before the crash, noting that it wouldn't be until the next day when everything would be normal again, so I figured it would just be a waiting game until all was normal again. Nothing can be just that damn simple for me, can it?
Throughout the day yesterday, nothing. Then, at about 10:45PM EST, the site was up! I go around to see the damage, and see right when I scrolled down that the last update wasn't from last week, it was from June 18th. I fell into a slight state of insanity, laughing uncontrollably for almost 20 minutes I've been told. When I regained the ability to breathe again (and yes, I'm serious, this really happened, gave my housemate a good laugh seeing me like that), I went to find out what more damage there was and made this little list:

Site rolled back to late June
Databases still missing
Sub-domains no longer functional
User permissions gone, aka Bob and Tiff can't do site work
E-mail account not working
If you're reading this, you see that I've been able to restore the site itself to current day. Everything else will be worked on throughout free time I have today and the next few days, as not everything can be done from my end. Forums are down until further notice. There's nothing I can do about the databases right now, and I apologize for not being a good admin and not backing up those databases at least once a week. Chances are that we will have to start from scratch there, as much as I want to stay positive, realistically, with them not up in any state as of yet, I don't expect them to show back up. Hopefully I'm wrong, I'd love to be proved wrong in this way, and in all sense, SHOULD be wrong. I'll admit my own sloppiness with not keeping backups of the databases myself, but what the hell has out host been doing? Last backup in late June and complete loss of databases? Geez.
However, I can assure you that steps will be taken to avoid this happening in the future. I am already taking steps in undergoing a project to build my own server and run the site right here in my house. I hope this project turns out to be a successful one and that this kind of stuff will end. As for right now, be assured that I'm doing my best to restore everything here back to the state we were in before Monday, and that I will keep you all updated right here, so please don't e-mail me. Well, you can't e-mail me, it'll just get bounced back, but don't e-mail Bob or Tiff about this, trust me they're not going to know much more that what's typed in here except on how to get a hold of me.

September 23rd, 2003 Dan - SMR box out, first box editorial
Today is the day that the Sailor Moon R box is offically released, and I finished my editorial regarding ADV's uncut releases of the two seasons to go along with today's release. It's been over two years since I've written an editorial, and almost a year and a half since one has even been written on the site at all. I have put in a lot of research and time into this piece and I hope you enjoy it and find it informative in various ways.

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	March 30th, 2004	Dan - Site completely recoded Not excatly a content update, rather than an update explaining how content is arranged. Confused? Good. ^_^ As some of you many know, now and then since this past summer, I've mentioned recoding the site with PHP using MySQL databases. The phobos project delayed this a little bit, though I'm glad it did as doing the recoding project was a hell of a lot easier using a server networked with my own computer. I started this project about a month after phobos was complete and working, and finally finished it last night. Transfering all the data on the site into the databases, coding the PHP, and coding an administration center for the three of us to use to update the site a hell of a lot easier than before. We can now update the site from any computer connected to the Internet with never having to upload HTML files ever again. ^_^ With making additions and updates to the site much easier, hopefully we'll be seeing more updates and less time between those updates. Like I said in January, I wanted to start up some momentum this year, and I think it's been a good start to it and hopefully more to come. Oh, something to note, if you have any page of the site besides the main domain bookmarked, those bookmarks will no longer work. Be sure to update your bookmarks if you have anything other than the main address bookmarked.
	March 26th, 2004	Dan - More Geneon announcements Geneon made a couple announcements yesterday evening. One that was basically being expected, the other that many fans have been waiting a while for. See my latest news article for the details.
	March 11th, 2004	Dan - Contract for first two seasons to expire Have a semi-suprising news article today regarding the future of the first two seasons of Sailor Moon. Read the latest article to see what state they're in now.
	February 27th, 2004	Dan - More great deals on ADV's boxes I thought that it couldn't get any better than yesterday, and only 24 hours later it does! See today's news article for an even BETTER deal than yesterday!
	February 26th, 2004	Dan - ADV's boxes marked down in price A new kind of news update for today, today marks the day of an awesome sale that Sailor Moon fans will love. Go see the latest news article to see!
	February 24th, 2004	Dan - More Geneon announcements Geneon keeps on pumping out title announcements and have released info in the next discs in their Signature Series line.
	January 22nd, 2004	Dan - News blurb Nothing big today, just a little tidbit from Geneon, head on over to the news to see.
	January 6th, 2004	Dan - Backlog done Let's kick off this new year with a bang! Phobos is complete, about a couple of weeks after the last update, the domain finally pointed over here, I finished setting some stuff up that I had to wait for the domain for, then I celebrated by downing a 40oz bottle of beer. And yes, I did that in the middle of the week that week it meant that much to me, I was so fricken happy when I was done. And the project has been a great success so far, no big snags as of yet, it's been a huge success. However, when I said let's kick the new year off with a bang, phobos isn't what I was talking about. Phobos was a good way to end off 2003, what I'm talking about now is 2004, and getting some momentum started this year. So what have I done to start off the year? I have taken a HUGE chunk out of my backlog. Yesterday (it's 4AM now so I can say that =P @_@;; ) I had the day off, and I had made another New Year's resolution, and that was to get off my ass and get some work done around here, and start picking up the pace around here. I can proudly say that ALL of my two cents in every comparison is DONE. I am caught up and can keep up with Bob once he decides to get off his lazy ass to do more. In November, my dad got my mom a 3-in-1 printer-scanner-copier thingy for her birthday, and a couple weeks ago I hooked that up for her and all, taking back to my place her old scanner. With this scanner, I have finished the SuperS coverart archive. Ok, you'll notice one "best of" VHS not there, but that tape must either not exist or not be important enough for any online retailer to have a scan of. Hell, even Geneon's own site doesn't have an image of the tape. So unless someone owns the tape and wants to scan it for me, don't expect it up. The same goes for the ADV's Sailor Moon R box, I refuse to buy it so if anyone wants to donate scans of it for the site, please e-mail me and I'll tell you what I need and what size and all. On the note of the SMR box, I've scanned parts of the SMC box having a little ADV uncut DVD cover archive as well. People have been telling me about this for over a month now, so I've decided to report on Geneon's Signature Series line of products. This little news article gives all the details you need, and to answer this ahead of time, I don't plan to make a coverart archive for the Signature Series line since there is no difference besides an ugly red bar on the top of the products. And I'm still going. I waited months to do this for fear that something would happen right after I posted it, just like the last editorial. Well, it looks like things are finally at a standstill to safely make a second part to my previous editorial. This editorial focuses on how ADV has responded to the issues with their releases of the uncut first two seasons. Nope, I'm not done yet! The little segment in the "about us" section needed some updating, so I updated my stuff in there. And the section I know a lot of people have wanted to see be updated finally has. That's right, I've gone through and redone the links page, after not touching it in like a couple years I think. With all that, I'm drained, and heading off to bed to rest up for starting more stuff when I get up. I'm not stopping now, this is a great start to the year and I'm going to make sure much more follows.
	November 27th, 2003	Dan - Phobos complete I have really good news. After two months of insanity and working hard on my free time, the phobos project is complete. The server has everything on there, it's online right now, all that's left is the wait time for the domain to point over to phobos. Then I move the forums to their rightful address, and I am DONE. (ok, I have to figure out how to make subdomains, can't do that without the domain, but you get the drift) I'm going to guess that by tomorrow or Saturday night, the domain will point to phobos, I can move the forums (which I can do from here at my parent's without a problem), and celebrate being done. I'll be going through my backlog and starting other projects next week, until then I'm just going to kick back and relax.
	October 23rd, 2003	Dan - Phobos status log online Not a real update, but something I've been meaning to do this month. I've decided to keep a mini online log on the new server, phobos, so that everyone can see the progress on the server and so I don't clog this updates page up. This log can be found on the main page and will be updated as big events happen.
	October 15th, 2003	Dan - Fourms back on temp server So things never go as smoothly for me as they should when they're so simple. Nevertheless, I have finally completed the setup of the forums. Some things I'd like to mention before they get swamped. First off, if you were already a user of the forums, please reregister with your previous username, I'm sure I don't have to explain why. Secondly, due to the nature of the situation, all bans have been lifted, so everyone has a second chance. Last, and definetly not least, I don't want to get any e-mails asking myself, Bob, or Tiff, ANYTHING about the forums being down, asking what happened, etc, because everything has been explained here, and I'm quite sick of it, and I'm sure the other two are as well. Everything regarding the forums and other domain problems has been explained and kept up to date here. I believe that's all I needed to mention, so without any further delays, let's welcome back the forums!
	October 10th, 2003	Dan - ADV fixes a glitch Let's start today with a status update. Bob, Tiff, and myself finally had a talk last night on situations regarding the site, and have come to a decision regarding the forums. In the near future, a few hours hopefully tomorrow night latest, the forums will be back up. Very sadly, they will be a fresh install, meaning no one registered and no posts whatsoever, since there has been no sign of the databases returning and still no response from the current host. This time around, the forums will be on my housemate's server, and will move to my server when I complete it. I would do the forum setup now, but I don't know how to create a database using his server so I must wait until he returns home. So why am I updating now when there's nothing to say? Because there is something to update, which I feel is important enough not to wait to do at the same time as the forum update. Just a couple hours ago, a big announcement was made. Check out the new article, and learn how to get rid of the dub audio on episode 68.
	October 8th, 2003	Dan - News article and more ranting It's been about a week since the site has been back up since the host's hard drive crash, and sadly, nothing has really changed or happened. All problems that I mentioned before in the last update still exist now, with the exception of my e-mail. As I was typing an e-mail to the host asking about these issues, e-mail suddenly appeared from my addy here. So my e-mail account does work again, though I must ask everyone not to bother e-mailing me or Bob or Tiff if it has anything to do with the status of the server. I'll update here if anything does happen, the two of them won't find out much quicker than everyone here (eg, if they're online as I'm typing the update), so you're just wasting our, and your, time if you e-mail us regarding that. Even though I e-mailed the host Saturday night, I have yet to recieve a response from them or anything I asked about get done on its own. I understand they're having a rough time right now, but I believe I shouldn't have to wait more than 24 hours for a response inquiring about a service I pay for, 48 being REALLY nice. So until I hear something from them on anything, no subdomains, no forums, and no Bob and Tiff touching the site (though they can make me do their HTML stuff for them). Even with all this going on, I won't stop updating the site myself when something comes up, and honestly, that's why I'm updating now. You all know me well enough that I can't make an update where I don't add something new to the site in some way now, don't you? Over the past couple weeks, I've been keeping my eye on a certain situation. This would normally go right to the news section, but I wanted to make sure this was valid by having other people report that a certain thing did happen. Well, I've heard nothing but "it's really fixed" in some way or form, so I bring you a new news article, in which you can learn how to get the glitch in episode 25 fixed.
	October 2nd, 2003	Dan - I love crashes almost as much as crappy customer service Ok, where do I start? Well, on Monday, the site was working on a very sub-standard level. It was down for at least an hour when I first got home between class and Solid State, and came back up just before I left, but with no databases working. I figured they just needed more time to come back and hoped they would be back by the time I came home. Boy was I wrong, everything was gone. Site lasted a few more hours, databases were still down, and eventually late Monday night the whole thing went kaput. Whole thing means literally whole thing, site, databases, even my e-mail account. I knew this had to be something big, as when I went to our host's site, that was down as well. Since it was getting late, I went to bed ready to kick some ass on Tuesday. Nothing changed by the time I got up, and their e-mail wasn't working either, so I couldn't do anything. Not long after my first work shift ended, an e-mail made it's way to me and all other customers from the host, explaining the problem. Apparentally they had slowly been shifting sites on their new systems, and that a hard drive had a fatal error on Monday night, forcing them to do a clean restart. They said that it seemed like they would be able to recover all data from just before the crash, noting that it wouldn't be until the next day when everything would be normal again, so I figured it would just be a waiting game until all was normal again. Nothing can be just that damn simple for me, can it? Throughout the day yesterday, nothing. Then, at about 10:45PM EST, the site was up! I go around to see the damage, and see right when I scrolled down that the last update wasn't from last week, it was from June 18th. I fell into a slight state of insanity, laughing uncontrollably for almost 20 minutes I've been told. When I regained the ability to breathe again (and yes, I'm serious, this really happened, gave my housemate a good laugh seeing me like that), I went to find out what more damage there was and made this little list: Site rolled back to late June Databases still missing Sub-domains no longer functional User permissions gone, aka Bob and Tiff can't do site work E-mail account not working If you're reading this, you see that I've been able to restore the site itself to current day. Everything else will be worked on throughout free time I have today and the next few days, as not everything can be done from my end. Forums are down until further notice. There's nothing I can do about the databases right now, and I apologize for not being a good admin and not backing up those databases at least once a week. Chances are that we will have to start from scratch there, as much as I want to stay positive, realistically, with them not up in any state as of yet, I don't expect them to show back up. Hopefully I'm wrong, I'd love to be proved wrong in this way, and in all sense, SHOULD be wrong. I'll admit my own sloppiness with not keeping backups of the databases myself, but what the hell has out host been doing? Last backup in late June and complete loss of databases? Geez. However, I can assure you that steps will be taken to avoid this happening in the future. I am already taking steps in undergoing a project to build my own server and run the site right here in my house. I hope this project turns out to be a successful one and that this kind of stuff will end. As for right now, be assured that I'm doing my best to restore everything here back to the state we were in before Monday, and that I will keep you all updated right here, so please don't e-mail me. Well, you can't e-mail me, it'll just get bounced back, but don't e-mail Bob or Tiff about this, trust me they're not going to know much more that what's typed in here except on how to get a hold of me.
	September 23rd, 2003	Dan - SMR box out, first box editorial Today is the day that the Sailor Moon R box is offically released, and I finished my editorial regarding ADV's uncut releases of the two seasons to go along with today's release. It's been over two years since I've written an editorial, and almost a year and a half since one has even been written on the site at all. I have put in a lot of research and time into this piece and I hope you enjoy it and find it informative in various ways.