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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 March, 2006

The Subways @ Empty Bottle

Wednesday, March 15th, 2006

The Subways were fantastic, and the opener The Shys was barely tolerable. It wasn’t that The Shys’ music was that awful – it was mostly listenable. It was the fact that they were SO much more excited to see us than we were to see them. This is Chicago, and like our bands to be [...]

Opera Mini with a ROKR E1 on T-MobileWeb

Sunday, March 12th, 2006

First, you’re going to need to subscribe to the T-MobileWeb – it’s $5.99 a month. You can log into your account at www.tmobile.com to add the service. It takes about 24 hours for it to fully kick in, so be patient. Next up, your ROKR phone is going to need some settings to get it [...]

Underwhelmed

Wednesday, March 1st, 2006

From all the buzz leading up to Apple’s “fun” announcments yesterday, you’d think they would have had more up their sleeve than an unusually large white speaker, a few overpriced leather iPod cases, and an Intel Mac mini with an underpowered video chip. I mean, I understand that the hype surrounding these events tends to [...]