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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 January, 2006

ROKR E1 + T-Mobile?

Tuesday, January 31st, 2006

I’m in the market for a new phone since my venerable SonyEricsson T68i has been misbehaving recently. It’s been a good phone to me, but it’s been dropping calls and the joystick doesn’t work occasionally.
The problem for me is that I’m not that excited about any of T-Mobile’s current phones. The reason I chose T-Mobile [...]

Coachella 2006 Lineup, Gadget Curse

Tuesday, January 31st, 2006

NME.com announced the Coachella 2006 lineup today, and my reaction would be best described as “lukewarm”. Don’t get my wrong – there’s some great stuff in there. There’s Depeche Mode, Franz Ferdinand, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Devendra Banhart, Wolf Parade, Metric, The Dears, The Subways and Be Your Own Pet. But there is [...]

Coming Up for Air

Saturday, January 21st, 2006

I’ve been posting so little it’s a wonder why I even have a blog sometimes. I’ve been working on a redesign of my site, and helping some friends out with some freelance. Add to that the chaos of my Raid 5 drive freaking out, and January has been a handful. The good news is that [...]

The Horror of 2006

Tuesday, January 10th, 2006

And just after I posted that 2005 was (possibly) the best year of my life, my Raid 5 case with ALL of my music on it goes down – and has yet to come back up. If you know me, you know how awful this is. I’ve spent the past 3 years digitizing CDs and [...]

Waking up to 2006

Wednesday, January 4th, 2006

Sorry for the lack of updates in December – around the holidays things can get hectic. Speaking of which, Xmas was great and I got some new toys that will appease my gadget lust for a bit: a new Casio EXILIM S500 camera and an Apple Airport Express. Plus, I got a LOT of [...]