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.

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.

Curtis- Thanks for your order with CD Baby!

(1) Oakwood College United Student Movement: Nothing To Fear

Your CD has been gently taken from our CD Baby shelves with sterilized contamination-free gloves and placed onto a satin pillow. A team of 50 employees inspected your CD and polished it to make sure it was in the best possible condition before mailing. Our packing specialist from Japan lit a candle and a hush fell over the crowd as he put your CD into the finest gold-lined box that money can buy. We all had a wonderful celebration afterwards and the whole party marched down the street to the post office where the entire town of Portland waved “Bon Voyage!” to your package, on its way to you, in our private CD Baby jet on this day, December 22, 2010. We hope you had a wonderful time shopping at CD Baby. In commemoration, we have placed your picture on our wall as “Customer of the Year.” We’re all exhausted but can’t wait for you to come back to CDBABY.COM!!

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Sigh…We miss you already. We’ll be right here at http://cdbaby.com/, patiently awaiting your return.

– CD Baby The little store with the best new independent music

Unfortunately for their competitors like the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2, Motorola Xoom and the aforementioned PlayBook, Apple has once again proven that they have a knack for delivering what the market wants, when it wants it. The iPad 2 offers a great combination of price, technology, design, and utility that it seems nobody will able to match this time around. The few tablets that come close will still be missing a major selling point: the Apple logo.