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My name is Tony Ballinger, and I'm a web designer living in Oak Park, Illinois.
When I'm not designing for the web, I enjoy music, go to concerts and play with gadgets.

Archive for May, 2005

Serious Music Storage Options

Sunday, May 22nd, 2005

I have a pretty serious music collection happening. It comes out to about 300GB of mp3’s, most of which is from my about 2,500 CDs. The rest can largely be attributed to a really serious binge on emusic.com, when they used to have an all-you-can-eat policy. (That policy is no more, btw…)
So storage is a [...]

Pass on Blogger

Saturday, May 21st, 2005

Just a quick post: I’m not going to use Blogger for my site. I like it’s simplicity a lot, but it won’t do a few things I want to do. Namely, being able to browse posts by category, and to associate related links with each post. For example, if I’m going to Coachella soon, I’d [...]

Reinventing the Wheel

Thursday, May 19th, 2005

I’ve been threatening to redesign my site for about a year now, and I keep putting it off. I’d like to redesign it for a couple of reasons. Primarily, because it’s had the same design for an awfully long time. But also, I’d like to have a few more things on my home page. Things [...]

PalmOne LifeDrive

Wednesday, May 18th, 2005

You have to give PalmOne credit for beating a dead horse. As much as I love gadgets (a lot!) I just don’t see the purpose of a PDA that doesn’t have a phone in it these days.
I restate my centeral gadget problem: I carry a cell phone and an iPod. Some days, I even [...]

The Books @ Empty Bottle

Friday, May 13th, 2005

Incredible show – at the same time quite simple and totally original. The big question on my mind was: how are The Books going to pull their sound off in a live performance? I mean, basically there is a LOT of glitchy production in a books song, and I wasn’t sure how that [...]

Autolux @ Double Door

Friday, May 13th, 2005

Technically, The Raveonettes were opening – but this was Autolux’s show. I had just caught them the week before at Coachella, but due to a lunch miscalculation and an extremely long line to get in, we showed up a song or two into their set. But it was no matter – they rocked at Coachella [...]