Well, I’ve done it. I’ve negotiated a deal with Bawls Canada and the order is placed. By next week you should be able to purchase Bawls Guarana Energy Drink in cases of 24 at a retail and individually online. Still not sure about pricing, but expect it to be competitive with the local stores!

Yeah, it seems like a bit of a weird product for us to carry, but besides being a neat toy (spent the last 5 minutes going around the office walking up to people and telling them their temperature), it can be a useful tool as well.

The advertised accuracy is about +-2C and it reads from -55 to 220 degress Celsius. Here’s a couple shots of me using it to measure the temperature off the back of my HD 2900XT (running Folding@Home) and the exhaust temperature from my power supply.

At $45 the price is right. You never need to burn yourself finding out if a chip is running hot again!

They’ve landed! It’s been a long time coming, but these products really represent a tremendous value.

My original hesitation to bring in XSPC came about because of the reports I was hearing about some of their blocks leaking. That coupled with the low price made me think “cheap crap” and I don’t want to take a risk like that with my customers…

They’ve worked hard to turn that around though. They’re using a more expensive delrin substitute for their traditional plexi tops, and the machining on the base of the blocks looks more than adequate.

You can check out the range of XSPC products we’ve picked up at the XSPC store. I’m hoping to get images and product descriptions updated ASAP.

Well it finally arrived. First the German shipping company got confused about where it was supposed to go, then it got held up in customs, then Canada Post sent it to the wrong place….

But it’s finally here. We’ve only got a few, so if you want one of these, better move fast!

Congratulations to hpo@_____.___ who won a $500 NCIX gift card!

The draw was done randomly by me and NCIX Greg from only about 400 entrants over the August/September period for the survey. Honestly it surprises me that more people don’t fill these things out. All you need to do is go to www.secure.ncix.com/survey and enter your invoice number for an in-store purchase to be eligible for this huge prize. The chances to win are great considering how few entries we sometimes get.

Had a chance to see the beauties in the warehouse today, so I thought I’d snap a couple of pictures for my loyal readers (you know, the ones that do nothing but sit in front of their computer on the F5 button waiting for my next blog post… ha… ha…). These things are gorgeous. The finish is so shiny you can see my pink/white sneakers reflecting off the case in one of them.