Well, Camille and the kids are off in Rhode Island this week. That means I have to squelch my loneliness with late nights of coding and video games. If anyone wants to invite me to dinner just give me a call.

USCM has somewhat contracted me to make some upgrades to their "Conference Registration System". I created the "Event Server" my last year there and it has grown a lot since then. It is a fun project to work on.

Ok. Back to coding...

Hurray! I have my laptop back from being repaired by AQS Tech. They charged a fraction of what Sony was charging and got me the machine back in under 2 days. They obviously know their stuff. So, if your Sony laptop spazzes out on you you might want to check them out. Now I can get back to work...

Well, my laptop is dying. I urge all sensible people out there to never purchase a Sony laptop unless you pay for the extra 3 year service plan. I really like this GRX550. Linux runs great on it. Unfortunately it has some design flaws that are common to many Sony laptops. Sony refuses to do anything about it even though they have known about the issue for a while and many people have the same problem have the same problem. Time to send it to a repair store (other than Sony) to hopefully extend the life another year.
As a result of all this, I have backed-up my data and am not sure when I will next update this blog or the photos. The machine gets shipped off tomorrow. Hopefully it will be back sometime next week.