Dear Curtis,

Starting today, watching movies & TV shows in Canada will use 2/3 less data on average with minimal impact to video quality. For example, watching 30 hours of Netflix movies & TV shows will only use 9 GB of data, well below most Canadian ISP data caps. Previously, 30 hours from Netflix typically used 31 GB.

Why the change? We know that many of our Canadian members have monthly Internet data caps. This new default account setting will significantly reduce the amount of data Netflix delivers to you each month.

You now also have the ability to manage how much data Netflix delivers to you. Visit Your Account to adjust your settings anytime you want. Regardless of which setting you choose –– Netflix is still only $7.99 a month.

As always, we will continue to innovate and try new things to ensure Netflix is a great experience without high data use. If you have any questions, please call us at 1-866-923-1277.

–Your friends at Netflix

This was absolutely necessary for Netflix to do in order for them to be successful in Canada with our crazy bandwidth prices. Now just bring us some more content!

This is the intro I shot for a play. My class of 10-12 year-olds wrote and performed a modern day version of the story of Lazarus. The video cuts off rather abruptly because it was made to transition into a live scene. I may change the ending and upload it again in the future.

This is from a fashion show my friend and I shot with Canon T2is and 50mm 1.4 lenses. We didn’t have tripods with us so the video is really shaky! I hacked this video together REALLY quickly as evidenced by some of the iffy cuts.

A couple of years ago when I started looking for a content management system (cms) to adopt, I ultimately went with WordPress. After very briefly looking at Joomla and Drupal I wrote them off. The documentation wasn’t great for either platform and the admin user interfaces were cluttered and confusing. WordPress on the other hand served most of my needs, has great documentation and the user experience in its admin section is far superior to the other two platforms.

However, I had to go through 20 hours of Drupal training last week at work. My perception of Drupal has changed as a result. Seeing the functionality available within Drupal and the limitations of WordPress led me to once again give Drupal a try. Yet once again, the user interface turned me off. I went through 20 hours of training and still had questions at the end. What will happen when I hand the site off to clients? Plus most of the things that initially impressed me (like Views) aren’t all that useful for people with decent PHP/MySQL skills.

So my quest has led me to find a cms with the ease of use (for both developers and administrators) of WordPress and the power of Drupal. Unfortunately, no such product seems to exist in the open source world. ExpressionEngine is the closest thing that I have been able to find, but at $299 per site I’m a little hesitant to give it a try.