Archive for April, 2008
Un-Common Scents: Anthousa Diffusers
A few months ago, I was preparing our home in Baltimore to put it on the market, by just giving it last-minute, decorative finishing touches. While I am by no means an expert, I really enjoy home décor and interior design. Similarly, I have an amateurish passion for real estate. I know that to sell [...]
Qwowi Golf Review: The Perfect Pendulum
I had never heard of The Perfect Pendulum before its inventor, John Marini, sent me an email asking if I’d be interested in taking a look at his new product. Here at Qwowi, we’re really not in the habit of turning down much of anything in the way of review requests, so I was [...]
uPro GPS Launches Course Finder
One of the new products for 2008 that we’ve been keeping an eye on is the uPro GPS. As you may recall, I suggested that the uPro is poised to render your current golf GPS or rangefinder completely obsolete.
Based on the amount of interest my visitors have in this product, I’m fairly certain my prediction [...]
The K-Cup Challenge: Green Mountain Kenya AA Extra Bold
Our sample of Green Mountain Kenyan AA was provided by our friends at Green Mountain Coffee Roasters. If you’ve been reading the K-Cup Challenge at all, you know I’m a fan of Green Mountain for both their great coffee, and their commitment to Brewing a Better World.
What is Says on the Box
Finally, our Kenyan [...]
Tales from Demo Days: TaylorMade
While I’d hoped this year’s demo day post would be the largest ever, it just didn’t work out that way. The guys that I had hoped would be around to help me sort through the piles of new equipment available for testing at Northway 8 Golf’s annual demo day event all had prior commitments. To [...]
Qwowi Taste Test: Snapple Antioxoidant WA+ER - Dragonfruit
With 3 remaining varieties of Snapple’s new Antioxidant Water left unsampled, I reached in my fridge to pull out a bottle of Dragonfruit flavor for this latest review.
Normally this is the part of the review where I hit up Wikipedia so I can tell you all about a fruit that I otherwise have very little [...]
The K-Cup Challenge: Diedrich Paradiso House Blend
Today’s installment of Qwowi’s K-Cup Challenge is sponsored by OneGreatCup.net. Ken at 1 Great Cup has volunteered to be my West Coast supplier for this little project, and we greatly appreciate his support.
Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1 Great Cup was among the very first to offer single-serve coffee over the Internet. They [...]
The K-Cup Challenge: Timothy’s White Hot Chocolate
Our review of Timothy’s White Hot Chocolate is sponsored by Shoffee.com, who surprised me with a box of this brand new K-Cup variety.
Even though it’s been available for less than a couple of weeks, Timothy’s White Hot Chocolate is already garnering a lot of interest from what I’ll call “Keurig Enthusiasts”. It’s pretty exciting [...]
Qwowi Golf Review: EnergyGrip EG Tour
With winter finally behind us here in the Northeast, Qwowi contributing editor, Tony Covey, finally has the opportunity to test the new EnergyGrip EG Tour grips. He shares his thoughts in today’s lead story.
The K-Cup Challenge: Green Mountain Hot Cocoa
My sample of Green Mountain Hot Cocoa was provided to me as part of Green Mountain’s ongoing support for this little K-Cup Challenge project I’ve undertaken. I was pretty amped up to try hot cocoa in my Keurig brewer, as was my wife, who’s a huge fan of hot cocoa in pretty much every sort [...]
Snuggling up with nap
In June, my husband and I will be celebrating 9 years of marriage. I have never loved another as I have loved him… until recently. Admittedly, I am a junkie when it comes to my latest product obsession—the n∙a∙pTM line of blankets, pillows and accessories at Brookstone. Truthfully, I am in love with [...]
TaylorMade Announces New Targa Tour Gloves
I’m not sure if they flew this one under the radar, or if it simply didn’t warrant the standard new product press release, but TaylorMade has announced the availability of their new glove, the Targa Tour.
While I’m not going to get nearly as excited about a new glove as I would a new driver (I’ll [...]
The K-Cup Challenge: Green Mountain Dark Magic Extra Bold
Qwowi’s sample of Green Dark Magic Extra Bold comes to us directly from Green Mountain Coffee Roasters. As I mentioned when I first announced the partnership with Green Mountain, I’m a big fan of their coffee. More importantly, however; I’m a fan of of how seriously Green Mountain takes the notion of corporate [...]
Qwowi Golf Review: OGIO Exodus Golf Bag
With the snow finally gone for good here in the Northeast (knock on wood), I finally had a chance to load my gear into the OGIO Exodus cart bag. OGIO sent me the bag for review nearly two months ago, and I’ve been desperate to get the bag out on a golf course ever since.
If [...]
Taste Test: Snapple Grape Pomegranate antioxidant WA+ER
In what will be my last Snapple Antioxidant Water review for a little while (or at least until more Snapple shows up), I’ll give you the low down on the last bottle I have in the house; Grape Pomegranate. [UPDATE: Since my original draft, the good people at Snapple have sent me a re-up of [...]
Bouncy with Bumble & Bumble
When referencing my hair, my mother always jokingly said, “That color doesn’t come in a bottle.” One of the few things I actually like about my physical appearance is my hair. However, my hair is far from perfect. Despite its rare golden hue, which I’ve never artificially colored, it’s actually rather fine and limp. That [...]
Cozying Up with the Patricia Gel Fuel Fireplace
For five years, my husband and I lived in a center-chimney Colonial home in Connecticut, which was built in 1769. It had three fireplaces, and the one we consistently used in the living room really threw some serious heat on those frigid winter nights in New England. When we moved to Baltimore and bought a [...]
The K-Cup Challenge: Timothy’s Extra Bold Midnight Magic
I’ve just about run out of ways to talk about how I received the samples for my reviews. I’m pretty sure some guy in our accounting department fills out a form, most likely on a monthly basis, and then Monday morning (usually around 8:30), a bunch of boxes arrive. 3 of those boxes are filled [...]
Taste Test: Snapple antioxidant WA+ER - Orange Starfruit
Unlike the previous two, my 3rd bottle of Snapple’s new antioxidant Water wasn’t consumed in a single sitting. Instead, my bottle of Orange Starfruit has been a 4 day affair of sipping a little here and a little there. It’s not that I don’t like it, or don’t really want to drink it. The only [...]
Shaving My Head with the Andis BGRC Clipper
Some people, most in fact, have a head with at least resonably manageable hair growing out of it. Unfortunately, I’m not one of them. Where most of you have hair, I have fleece. It grows thick, and up, and out, and there’s pretty much nothing that can be done with, or about it.
I’ve been shaving [...]
The K-Cup Challenge: Green Mountain Our Blend
I promise you I have other sources for coffee, and I’ll be writing about them soon enough. However, once again, today’s sample for review was provided by my employer as part of our outstanding office coffee program. We get a large variety of Green Mountain K-Cups each week, and almost always included among them is [...]
Jim’s Organic Coffee: Jo-Jo’s Java
I have been known to be a bit of an impulse shopper, especially when it comes to my coffee purchases. I will buy coffee based on a cool bag design, a great color combination, or even its placement on the grocery shelf. While it is said you cannot judge a book by its cover I am [...]
Fixed: Issues with Review Request Form
Our apologies to anyone who may have submitted a review request over the last 10 days. We recently discovered that a configuration setting in our Review Request form was overlooked during the conversion from WhatTheDeuce.com to Qwowi.com.
Any attempts to send us a review request during the last week or so most likely failed. If you [...]
Chocolate Review: Vosges Red Fire Bar and Simply Enjoy Flourless Cake Bites
Honestly, I never thought I’d consider myself a connoisseur of anything—not even chocolate. As I’ve steadily crept into my 30s, however, I do notice I have a slightly more discerning palate when it comes to my favorites, or to trying new twists on old favorites. Chocolate is definitely my drug of choice, [...]
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