The Bushgang Blog

Trying this feature out...we'll see if it works! Go XBox!     Sent to you by Kevin via Google Reader:     Xbox Live is making ten times as much money as the Playstation Network via Fidgit by Tom Chick on 2/25/09 Variety blogger Ben Fritz gets to the bottom of the debate between Xbox Live and the Playstation Network (PSN). If you're interested in the business of video games, there's only one statistic of any significance: Sony has generated $180 million in gross revenue from PSN two-plus years of life. As of the last E3, after about five and a half years, Xbox Live had generated over $1 billion. That's not terribly surprising considering Xbox Live has a subscription fee and the Playstation Network doesn't. However, there's no way to untangle how much of Xbox Live's revenue is from subscriptions and how much is from sales. It just does to show that you can't trust videogamers to actually buy stuff. It's better to charge them a regular fee...

Hi everyone! Sorry for the long delay between updates on Stephanie. My New Year's resolution is already falling into the pit of forgotten promises. Don't worry, I don't plan on giving up easily! Steph and I are heading to Maui on Friday. Steph's Aunt Dolly has been very helpful in the past and is going to watch Levi while we are celebrating our 17 years of wedded bliss. Seventeen years! Wow time flies when your having fun! On that note, the last two years have been a little slower to pass as most are aware. Our medical oncologist made a recent decision to move back to the west coast. That event led us down the path of finding a new medical oncologist. We did. He reviewed Steph's case and determined that a strategic move was in order...more chemotherapy. When we return from Maui, Steph will have another PET scan to check once more for cancer that may have spread to another part of her body. Once the results are back, a chemotherapy regimen will be established. I...

Sharing my experience with you... I had an offer from a good friend to attend the Dallas/Portland NBA game Wednesday night and although I am not a big NBA fan, I chose to go along for the company and the experience. It just so happened that these tickets were free to us but the price printed on them was $334. With a price tag like that, we knew they would be good. In fact, they were 3rd row on the floor! Just so you can appreciate the expense here, there are 45 home games in a season ticket package. That means, someone or some company wrote check for a little over $60,000 for our four seats. A really nice guy named Chris was sitting behind us. As it turns out, he is one of the guys that sells the season tickets. He pointed out several people around us that were "important", including "Don", an eccentric 67 year old gentleman who owns half the land in Uptown (Dallas area) and gives a lot of money to charities and the church and supports a lot of missionary work. He ...