PAX is nearly here, which means my self-imposed deadline for CheeseMod 1.7.3_7 release is nearly here. As people on 64d have seen, I've been making lots of random improvements in the dev builds but I still have a few major goals to finish up this week. Of upmost importance is …

So theres just a little over 24 hours left of the 3rd humble indie bundle, they added yet another game to it since my last blog but the average sale has risen to $5.71 for people hoping to get the 2nd bundle included.

So a few days ago my area passed an entire month of being 100+ degrees. It's 107 outside right now and supposed to reach at least 108 today. We have an "Excessive Heat Warning" on weather.com =p

There's a new Humble Indie Bundle! 5 awesome games for as low as 1 cent (but don't go under $1 unless necessary D=). http://www.humblebundle.com/

Tonight I've uploaded the newest version of CheeseMod onto the CM site http://pycosites.com/cheesemod/index.php I'm still in the process of updating the CheeseMod site to have all the new info. I'll probably do one more update before 1.8

HP officially announced the fix for my laptops switchable graphics opengl issue, so that problem should hopefully be resolved in a week or two. They're either going to add a bios feature to switch between dynamic and fixed mode, or add a control panel thing that does the same thing. …

Well my new laptop came in and its perfect… except for one major flaw. HP decided to change the switchable graphics driver in the most recent set of laptops and ended up breaking opengl support among other things. So if I play an opengl game, it uses the crappy graphics …

For those of you that missed it, this is the laptop I'll be getting: http://www.amazon.com/HP-Pavilion-dv7-6175us-Entertainment-Notebook/dp/B0051OM3W8/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1309404440&sr=1-1 It was shipped today and should arrive on wednesday =D

So now that I need a new laptop, I've been trying to figure out the exact laptop I want. It needs to be something new, from either amazon.com or hp.com and I'd like it to be an hp pavillion dv7. So my current laptop was something like this:

So today the company we sent my laptop to confirmed they wont be repairing it under warranty. They say that not only is the warranty only for confirmed hardware defects, but implied that i'm lying about what caused the damage and that they wouldn't fix it anyway because I waited …