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.