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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 July, 2007

Hawaii Trip

Sunday, July 29th, 2007

Faith and I had the extraordinarily good timing to elope around the same time as our Gerard Design Hawaii retreat, which made the trip sort of a honeymoon for Faith and I. Hawaii really is like paradise. It was a first trip to Hawaii for Faith and I, and Faith has a newfound love for [...]

iPhone’s in, Treo’s out

Wednesday, July 4th, 2007

I thought I could resist. The week before the iPhone launch, I had nearly tired myself out of the coverage on Engadget, Gizmodo and the rest of the media. I had written off the iPhone as a beautiful, expensive and unnecessary gadget. I had my Treo 680 and it worked just fine.
But my boss [...]

Married

Wednesday, July 4th, 2007

Faith and I have done it – we’re married. You might have heard that we were having an October wedding in Iowa, which was true. However, neither of us were all too fired up to plan all the details. For example, we had been engaged a year, and hadn’t picked colors yet.
When we received [...]