It is pretty difficult to locate Comcast channels after they switched over to digital format. So I went through one by one with the TV to try and document them all. These are for San Francisco, California. They may not be the same for other counties like San Mateo, Contra Costa, or others.

If you have any recent model LCD/Plasma TV (at least within the last 3-4 years) with digital tuner, you should be able to tune into the QAM channels. Some of the USB and PC peripheral tuners will also be able to tune into the QAM channels.

I'll update the listing if things change over time but hope this helps. It's a shame Comcast doesn't publish these channels to service listings that allow companies/devices like Tivo take advantage of. They are literally shooting themselves in the foot with these kinds of tactics.

Channel Station
81.11 Nickelodeon
81.2 Oxygen
81.3 Discovery
81.4 TLC
81.5 Comedy Central
81.6 VH1
81.7 Cartoon Network
81.8 Spike
81.9 E!
83.1 Vs
83.12
83.2 Bio
83.3 History International
83.4 Lifetime Movie Network
83.9 Style
86.4 Food Network
86.5 MSNBC
86.6 Disney Channel
86.7 USA
86.9 A&E
94.11 HGTV
100.1 C-SPAN
100.10 QVC
100.12 Headline News
100.2 C-SPAN2
100.3 Animal Planet
100.4 Travel Channel
100.7 CNN
100.8 Golf Channel
100.9 HSN
121.1 Latination
121.10 News Radio
121.11 Classical Radio
121.12 Latin Jazz (KCSM)
121.13 Radio
121.14 Pop Radio
121.15 Spanish Radio
121.16 Contemporary Radio
121.17 Radio
121.18 Pop Radio
121.19 Radio
121.20 Country Radio
121.21 Country Radio
121.22 RnB Radio
121.23 Radio
121.24 Radio
121.25 Classic Rock (KFOX)
121.26 Spanish Radio
121.6 Hispanic (Telemundo?)
81.10 TV Land
86.10 FX
86.11 Lifetime
86.12 AMC
87.13 SyFy
87.14
87.3 Hallmark
87.4 Tru TV
89.1 TV Guide
89.10 SFGTV2
89.11 GOD
89.12 ARTS
89.3 Weather Channel
89.4 Link TV
89.5 Comcast Home
89.6 SFGTV
89.7 ShopNBC
89.8
91.311 MTV
94.10 Bravo
94.14 TV Land Prime
94.9 History
98.11 VH1
98.13 GEMSTV
98.5 FCS
99.13 G4
99.5 Bloomberg
99.8

Link: http://www.gooddata.com

A new startup funded in part by Marc Andreeson (formely of Netscape & Mosaic fame) called Good Data extolls the virtues of collaborative Business Intelligence and placing the platform on cloud computing environment for scaleability as usage grows. It leverages SOA and Web 2.0 technology to deliver a hosted solution that is as functional, if not more so, than pre-existing BI platforms like OBIEE, Business Objects, Cognos, etc. And best of all, it's free to try!

I have yet to play around with this but I'll be taking a CSV file of raw data and trying to build reports on top of it, including the testing of Ad Hoc analytics on it. With Good Data, you can source multiple data sets, including Amazon S3 buckets. It's claim to access different data sets via their API needs to be tested out but the limitations are obvious if a database was the source of data that needs to be transferred over the Internet (securely of course) into Good Data's distributed system. I'm guessing Hadoop is their storage and processing model for distributing the share of workload for storage, retrieval and light processing of the data.

It will be interesting to see how this new upstart plans to break a market that has been previously dominated by a handful of BI players. And given the hosted model here, how long will we see this being produced as a standalone enterprise application that can be purchased by customers looking to manage their BI internally? Financial institutions would NOT want a hosted solution for this and they are a market that would be good to monetize on. What plans Good Data has is not clear but hopefully they sort this out and pick their target markets wisely.

This game was great... if you like your games SHORT. It was a little shorter than the previous CoD4: Modern Warfare and there were times where I felt a little misled by the linearity of the game, not to say that there isn't linearity in the entire series. However, this game pretty much draws similarities to CoD4. If you have played CoD4, you will pretty much be playing the same game but in different scenarios and maps. Nevertheless, battling to the end (both the US forces side battling Japan on their turf and the Russian forces battling Germany into submission in Berlin) is still a worthwhile endeavor that should give you about 2 solid days of gameplay.

Is this worth it? Not unless you're going straight to online mode, where the value is inherent in all the FPSes. If going solo play, try your hand at Fallout 3 (where I've yet to get into).

What's next for this venerable series? I'm not sure after CoD4 (which is still far and away the best of the series IMHO) what else can top that besides slicker graphics and visuals. Gameplay is still about the immersive experience and should have a minimal learning curve. If it takes too long to get into a game, you've lost me already. Fortunately for CoD4 and CoD5, this isn't the case.

After several years...

I've decided to revamp my website since it was basically stagnating. Content seems to be key nowadays and besides, no one really cares much about personal websites lately. They're all on social networks like Facebook or Myspace, catching up on the latest snippets of useless information on messaging networks like Twitter, or chatting each other up on various instance messenger clients.

In reality, this blog will just be a storage place for information that is really relevant to me. Nothing more. If anyone chooses to read up here, they may or may not understand what is actually being placed in each posting. The key thing here is that it resides more as a home on the Internet for personal note-taking, with ease-of-access anywhere I can access the Internet. Whether I'm at home, on a client site in a different part of the US or traveling the world, I can always access my blog to place content of interest to me and archive it.

So welcome to my little public corner of the world, which the Internet really is a part of, and feel free to chime in should you wish!