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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 January, 2005

Coachella Lineup

Monday, January 31st, 2005

Sorry about the lack of posts, but it’s a good indicator of how eventful my life has been lately. The weather’s been cold and work has been running me a little ragged. And it looks like I’m not going to have the warm climate of Coachella to look forward to this year, since I think [...]

MacWorld Announcments

Sunday, January 16th, 2005

I still haven’t gotten around to watching the entire keynote online, but I’m pretty excited about the annoucements. Between the Mac mini, the iPod shuffle and a better preview of MacOS Tiger – it’s another good year to be a Mac guy. Mac mini By far, this was the biggest news of the day. Until [...]

2004 Music Review

Tuesday, January 4th, 2005

Ok, I can’t guarantee that all of these albums were released in 2004. So think of this as “stuff I first heard in 2004″. Good enough – let’s get on with it. In no particular order… Khonnor – Handwriting This album has a good balance of acoustic guitar, great vocals, and scratchy electronic production. I [...]

2005 Resolutions

Monday, January 3rd, 2005

I’ve taken stock a bit, and come up with a few resolutions for 2005. I think I went a bit overboard last year with eight resolutions, and it’s evident that I didn’t take some of them very seriously. So I’m going to limit myself to five this year. With that, here’s 2005′s resolutions: 2005 Resolution [...]