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My name is Tony Ballinger, and I'm a web designer living in Oak Park, Illinois.
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Archive for November, 2007

Back to Entourage

Monday, November 26th, 2007

After years of using OS X’s built-in Mail client, I’ve now switched back to using Entourage at work. And I’ve done this rather begrudgingly. It’s the end of a rather long saga of my trying to find a calendaring solution that works for me.
For quite a while, I used 30 Boxes. If you’re not familiar [...]

Ch-Ch-Changes

Monday, November 5th, 2007

Ok, the new Apple keyboard isn’t so bad now that I’ve realized that they’ve moved the eject key (bastards) and I’ve started to use the iTunes control keys. I still have to look down more than I’m happy with, but I’ve picked up a lot of speed in the last 72 hours. I imagine that [...]

A Tough Day with Apple

Sunday, November 4th, 2007

Too much change in the same day might not be such a good thing. Today I upgraded to MacOS 10.5 Leopard and replaced my keyboard with one of the new slimmer keyboards. After about having spent about six hours with both, I’ve gone back to my old keyboard (glad I kept the receipt) and I’m [...]

A Very Good Week

Saturday, November 3rd, 2007

Some weeks are a blur. Too much work, too little time and such. But this was a very good week. For starters, all of my projects at work are going reasonably well. I’ve restructured a few things about how we work together as a team on projects, and so far, things are going swimmingly. For [...]