We used a James Bond theme because a lot of us were huge James Bond fans. Robert made magic happen with a budget (as usual) and I put a lot of time and money into a home made switch board to set off the ricochets during the shooting seen. I think both Adam, Doug, and I all suffered from our fair share of electric shocks that occurred during the whole process. Some of the sound seems a bit delayed in the YouTube videos (not sure why).

The Trailer

The Music Video

The Fake Commercial (extras)

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“Waiting” by Dash Berlin featuring the voice of Emma Hewitt

Make sure to pick it up on Amazon MP3

This is probably one of the most captivating World of Warcraft non-official events I have ever heard of. I ask that you all please show your support! I plan on making a new character on their server and attending.

From Big Bear Butt (BBB)’s Blog:

On October 28th of 2009, Julie, a member of the World of Warcraft guild Sidhe Devils on Kael’thas (US), revealed to us that she had been diagnosed with Breast Cancer. Her first treatment is scheduled to begin on November 9th.

To show our support and love for Julie while she takes on this new challenge, her friends in Sidhe Devils are organizing an event within the game of World of Warcraft that we’re calling the Raid for the Cure.

What it is

On Kael’thas (US), a united cross-faction walk across Azeroth will be held on Saturday, November 14th, starting at 2:00 PM Central Time (Kael’thas-US server time).

Members of both Alliance and Horde factions are invited to attend. Pink Mageweave Shirts will be handed out for all walkers, and all levels of characters will be welcome. If you’d like, bring your own shirt, or even make it a formal affair with your Festive Pink Dress!

The walk across Azeroth will not be a race of individuals, it will be a group march to show Julie our love and support.

We do want to help spread the word, and encourage donations in a cheerful way to the Susan G. Komen for the Cure charity, an organization that promotes information and awareness on early detection and treatment of breast cancer, and that supports funding for treatment and research towards a cure.

For more details please read the full blog post.

Chocolate Brownies
These turned out perfect!

Red Velvet Cupcakes
We did half with Cream Cheese icing and half with traditional Waldorf-Astoria icing. They turned out pretty good but needed a tad bit more cocoa and the tops got a little crunchy.

Walnut and Artichoke Pizza
This pizza crust recipe is epic. Everything was made from scratch and no matter what you think: Walnuts and artichokes make an amazing pizza topper!

Installation

1. Add the MySQL table.

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `seo_seos` (
  `id` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
  `related_model_id` int(11) NOT NULL,
  `related_model_name` varchar(255) NOT NULL,
  `title` varchar(255) NOT NULL,
  `description` varchar(255) NOT NULL,
  `keywords` varchar(255) NOT NULL,
  `slug` varchar(255) NOT NULL,
  `created` datetime NOT NULL,
  `modified` datetime NOT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY  (`id`),
  KEY `related_model_id` (`related_model_id`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM  DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;

This table will hold the SEO metadata for each model record.

2. Download the code and drop it in your /plugins directory. The code is readily available at GitHub.

3. Add the fields to your forms

	<fieldset>
		<legend>SEO</legend>
	<?php
		if ($this->action == 'admin_edit') {
			echo $form->input('Seo.id');
		}
		echo $form->input('Seo.slug');
		echo $form->input('Seo.title');
		echo $form->input('Seo.description');
		echo $form->input('Seo.keywords');
	?>
	</fieldset>

4. Add the preparation code to beforeRender() in AppController.

	function beforeRender() {
		$this->SearchEngineOptimizer->prepare();
	}

5. Add Seo.Seo to your $actsAs array in desired models or AppModel. Warning: Seo.Seo MUST come BEFORE Containable.

var $actsAs = array('Seo.Seo', 'Containable');

6. Add Seo.SearchEngineOptimizer to your $components array in AppController.

var $components = array('Auth', 'Seo.SearchEngineOptimizer');

7. Add $seo_for_layout to your /views/layouts/default.ctp (or whichever layout files you are using). It should look something like the following.

	<title>
		<?php echo $title_for_layout; ?> :: <?php echo Configure::read('website.general.name') . ' :: ' . Configure::read('Application.name'); ?>
	</title>
	<?php echo $seo_for_layout; ?>

8. Finally, add routes to make your URLs extra sexy. For example:

Router::connect('/recipes/*', array('controller' => 'recipes', 'action' => 'view'));

This should allow you to hit: http://mydomain.example/recipes/my-recipe-slug

Enjoy! Please let me know what I did wrong and what I did right. Suggestions and critiques are always welcome!

Stay tuned for more updates!

Update Oct 12, 2009
Probably the first time I have had chicken this tender (it fell apart in my mouth!). Dinner was a success

Marinated vegetables (raw), Caramelized Onion and Cornbread stuffing, Roasted chicken, and home made chicken gravy.