I promise I’ll eventually stop inundating you with hockey when this is supposed to be about tech stuff, but it’s consuming me right now. Especially after last night’s game. Um…I watched it in HD, so that’s somewhat tech-related, right? The place I went to has an HD projection screen TV, so it’s almost life-sized and actually almost kind of disturbing depending on how close you sit. I’m going somewhere else tonight, so the screen is much smaller, but I get to sit closer. It’s a tradeoff.

Hardware Bistro gets us started with the Xpad Slim Notebook Cooling Pad

TweakTown reports IKONIK shows us new 2009 range of cases

RBMods checks out the LaCie 2big External Network Attached Storage Hard Drive

Top Review Shop sits down with the Dell Inspiron 1525 Laptop

VIA Arena presents Sharing Your OneNote Notebook with Your Desktop

CCE Reviews gets into some G.Skill 64GB Falcon (FM-25S2S-64GBF1)

TechwareLabs reviews the Synology DS209+ NAS

TestFreaks compares Vista SP1 vs SP2

DragonSteelMods takes a look at the DIAMOND ATI Radeon HD 4870 PCIE 1024MB GDDR5 Video Card 4870PE51G

GamersHell wants you to know the Guitar Hero 5 Online Scavenger Hunt Begins

Tech-Reviews glides along on the XTracPads Gaming Mouse Pad

bit-tech spends some time with the Icy Box IB-MP309HW-B HD Media Player

HotHardware submits Windows 7 Hard Drive and SSD Performance Analyzed

Hardware Secrets gives you Install an SSD and Improve Your Laptop Speed, Reliability and Battery Life – Part 2

Finally, Au-Ja asks Zotac 9300-ITX WiFi – Mini-ITX in perfection?

Well, not right this minute, but game one is tonight. Luckily for those of you who dislike hockey you’re only going to have to hear about it for a maximum of another seven games (and hopefully less than that). For those of you keeping score, it’s the Detroit Red Wings vs. the Pittsburgh Penguins in a rematch for the Stanley Cup. We, of course, are hoping for back-to-back wins, but now, before we play any games, I’d like to say whoever wins deserves it. Which is the extent of my extending any kind of olive branch toward Pittsburgh.

Hardware Canucks starts us off with some Mushkin Redline Ascent 3×2GB PC3-12800 C6 Memory

DigitalTrends sits down with the HP Mini 1151NR

Guru3D checks out the Smooth Creations Far Cry 2 chassis mod

Xtreme Computing chills out with the Thermaltake ISG 400 (CLP0540) CPU Cooler

TweakTown gets its hands on the CM Storm Sentinel Advance gaming mouse

techPowerUp gets into the Albatron HD 4830 Green 512 MB

bit-tech examines the XFX ATI Radeon HD 4770 512MB

ModSynergy takes a look at the Epson P-5000 80GB Multimedia Photo Viewer

Hardware Secrets explains All Turion 64 Models

Benchmark Reviews spends some time with the Olevia 227-S11 27-Inch LCD HDTV

Pro-Clockers gives a listen to the Orbitsound T3 portable battery powered speaker

ThinkComputers gets its hands on the Logitech G19 Gaming Keyboard

GamingHeaven takes on Bionic Commando (X360)

And finally, GamersHell wants you to know the Singularity First-to-Play Sweepstakes Announced

Do you ever have those days when you do something so completely boneheaded you wonder how you ever made it as far in life as you’ve gotten? I went to the grocery store this afternoon. On a Friday at the end of the month. It wasn’t that I really needed anything that badly, it was just that I was bored and figured I’d pick up a few things. The store shelves looked as if a pack of rabid hyenas had been at them…what few packages of food were left sitting there seem to have been dragged across the store on the bottom of someone’s shoe and the store was absolutely packed. I ended up getting nothing, and then when I got to my car I found that someone had let their shopping cart ram into my passenger door so I had a nifty little dent. Luckily, it popped back out once I removed the offending cart. I am very glad to be home again.

ThinkComputers starts us off with the Thermaltake ISGC-200 CPU Cooler

DigitalTrends takes a look at the Panasonic DMP-B15

PCSTATS examines the Sparkle GTX260 Core 216 GeForce GTX 260 Videocard

TweakTown checks out the GIGABYTE MA790GP-UD4H 790GX Motherboard

Guru3D wants you to know about its Guru3D Contest 2

TechwareLabs reviews the Western Digital 2TB Green Drive

Bjorn3D spends some time with the Spire CombiPod card reader

DriverHeaven presents its Super Talent // OCZ Flash Drive Roundup

eWEEK reports Apple Accepts Previously ‘Inappropriate’ App for iPhone

Legit Reviews weighs in on the Axentra HipServ 2.0/Marvell Sheeva Plug – Plug Computing

TestFreaks takes up some bandwidth with the XTracPads Logic Precision Mousepad

HotHardware reports on the AMD Phenom II Hardcore Overclocking Event

XSReviews tries out EASUS Partition Manager

iXBT Labs gives you Intel Core 2 with Various FSB/Memory Clock Rates

And to finish us off, ModSynergy points and shoots with the Nikon D300 (Live View) DX 12.3MP Digital SLR Camera

This week flew by for me…could be because of the holiday, could be because I haven’t worked since last Saturday, could be a number of things. But here we are at the weekend already, or we will be once y’all get through this last day of work. I was going to do some gardening, but it looks like rain and it’s really pretty chilly out. I’m thinking of settling in with a book and the cat instead.

Virtual-Hideout kicks it off with the Noctua NH-U12P SE1366 Heatsink

bit-tech checks out the Sapphire Radeon HD 4890 1GB Atomic

TweakTown takes an Early look at GIGABYTE P55-UD5 and UD4P mobos

DigitalTrends spends some time with the Seagate FreeAgent Theater

DriverHeaven wants you to Win a Silverstone Tj10 Chassis (Nvidia Edition) and ST65EF power supply

HotHardware reports Intel Previews Nehalem-EX Octal-Core Processor Architecture

InsideHW takes a look at the AOC 2216Sw and AOC 619Fh

OverclockersOnline gets into the Thecus N3200Pro NAS

Hardware Secrets explains All Phenom Models

PC Shop Talk shares its thoughts on the Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB WD20EADS Hard Disk Drive

Motherboards.org goes under the hood of the AzzA Solano 1000 Case

Gamepyre takes on SBK Superbike World Championship – 360

Pro-Clockers hooks up with the WL-308 Wireless 300N XR Gigabit Gaming Router

Finally, TweakNews gets its hands on the Thermaltake Toughpower XT W0229RU 750W Modular Power Supply

Still no takers on the Roomba, huh? That’s too bad, I really dislike vacuuming. Oh well, could be worse…I could have a bigger house. I have to admit there’s something absolutely satisfying about sitting in my living room when everything is dust-free and smells nice. I found some furniture polish that smells like vanilla, so that’s a definite improvement over the fake lemon scent I used to use. Apparently, it’s been quite some time since I cleaned my monitor, though…after I dusted I had to turn the brightness down two notches so it didn’t blind me.

Oh, and by the way…bye-bye, Chicago! Next up: Pittsburgh!

Futurelooks kicks it off with the Flip Video UltraHD Pocket Digital Camcorder

PureOverclock chills out with the Xigmatek S983 Nepartak

ThinkComputers gets into the Ikonik Ra X10 Liquid Cooled Aluminum Full Tower Case

Elite Bastards takes a look at the Sapphire Radeon HD 4890 Vapor-X 1GB video card

Legion Hardware presents The Sims 3 – High-end VGA Performance

Legit Reviews sits down with the OCZ Neutrino 10″ DIY Netbook

TweakTown reports GIGABYTE already has SATA 6 Gbit/s on its mobos

bit-tech gives you an Order of War Preview

eWEEK announces OpenOffice.org 3.1 Provides Feature, Performance Boost

XSReviews tries on the Roccat Kave

DigitalTrends goes mobile with the Sanyo SCP-2700

BCC Hardware checks out the DeLOCK 2.5in Enclosure with Power over eSATA

Technic3D gives a listen to the Edifier Luna2 e20

LanOC examines the Lian-Li Silent Force 850W

And to close out this selection, DriverHeaven wants you to Win one of Two Corsair TX850W power supplies