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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.

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Everything I Currently Know About Excercise

Sunday, May 6th, 2007

I’ve been working with a personal trainer for the past three weeks, and this post is an effort to both share what I’ve learned and have a record of what I’m learning. To lose body fat and maintain (or increase) muscle you need to do three things: eat right, weight train and do cardio. This [...]

Everything I Currently Know About Nutrition

Sunday, May 6th, 2007

I’ve been working with a personal trainer for the past three weeks, and this post is an effort to both share what I’ve learned and have a record of what I’m learning. To lose body fat and maintain (or increase) muscle you need to do three things: eat right, weight train and do cardio. This [...]

Thanksgiving

Saturday, December 2nd, 2006

One of the many good things about working for Gerard Design is that they’re pretty generous with the vacation days, particularly around the holidays. So Faith and I were able to spend a bit of extra time back home. The nice thing about going home these days, is that while I enjoy my life in [...]

Vegas Vacation

Tuesday, July 18th, 2006

Faith and I just got back from a short vacation in Las Vegas. This was our first time in Las Vegas together, and I can certainly say I had a better time this time than I did on my last visit. Not that I didn’t have a great time on my last visit. I was [...]

Vacation Day: Garfield Conservatory

Monday, April 3rd, 2006

To be honest, without a digital camera I could probably stand to be at a conservatory about fifteen minutes. But with a digital camera, I think I killed over an hour here. Leaning into flowers, sticking the camera into cacti – I was having a hoot. The only shame is that we went on an [...]

Vacation Day: A Visit to the Zoo

Saturday, April 1st, 2006

While I had anticipated a certain volume of children at the zoo, for some reason I thought going on a Thursday afternoon would keep their numbers down somewhat. There have been very few times in my life when I have been so wrong. Small children outnumbered adults five to one. In the mangled words of [...]