The K-Cup Challenge: Green Mountain Gingerbread

Like they’ve done so often before, the nice people at Green Mountain Coffee Roasters were kind enough to send me some samples of their latest round of seasonal limited edition blends.  For the holiday season they’re offering up a Gingerbread variety, and the aptly named “Holiday Blend”.  I’ll review Holiday Blend soon enough, but today [...]

Qwowi.com Gets Crafty

As Qwowi.com’s resident scrapbooker, I am excited to officially announce the addition of my favorite hobby to this website. Scrapbooking is a multi-million dollar industry that has grown exponentially over the last decade. There are tons of products out there for everyone from the beginner who wants much of the work done for them to the [...]

Odwalla’s Food Bars: Healthy and tasty?

Odwalla’s Food Bars: Healthy and tasty?

Normally my grocery shopping occurs on my way home from the gym.  It’s a great plan really, because after the gym who wants to ruin all that hard work by purchasing junk food?  Wellllllll…sometimes I do.  On a recent trip to my local Price Chopper, I had made it as [...]

Snackin on World of Grains Multigrain Cookies

When the marketing folks behind the new World of Grains Multigrain cookie lineup asked me if I’d be willing write a review of their product, I said sure.  After all, it seemed like a match made in heaven really.  They’re looking for people to write about their product (it’s an almost-free advertising kind of thing), [...]

Ogio Gets All Transformy on Your Golfbag

It’s one of the cruel truths of golf; as soon as my season starts to wind down the golf manufacturers ramp up the new product announcements.  Such is the case with Qwowi’s favorite little bag company, OGIO.  If you check the OGIO site as often as I do, you’ve no doubt noticed a trickle of [...]

Zero Friction Tees Get Green

It wasn’t too long ago that I introduced you to the Dixon Earth Ball; an eco-friendly alternative to your current oil-based ball (what did you think Urethane was?).  Now I get to bring news of yet another golf company bringing greener alternatives to market.
Excel golf, makers of the popular Zero Friction Performance Series Golf Tee [...]

The K-Cup Challenge: Timothy’s Mexican Organic

It occurred to me that it’s been quite some time since I reviewed anything from Canadian coffee house, Timothy’s.  So when Joe over at Shoffee.com mentioned that he just got his first shipment of the new Mexican Organic blend, I figured it was high time I reconnected with the company that made the first K-Cup [...]

Powerbilt Announces Air Force One Lineup

When it comes to golf club design, I was actually starting to think that I had heard and seen pretty much everything imaginable.  Clearly I was wrong.  What I’m talking about, is the new Air Force One Lineup from Powerbilt Golf (which falls under the same corporate umbrella as Louisville Slugger and Bionic Gloves).  So [...]

The K-Cup Challenge: Gloria Jean’s Passion Fruit Tea

Now that we’re slowly rolling into winter, I thought I’d raise my game a bit and make a more concerted effort to review a few more of the Tea offerings for Keurig Brewers.  After all, Keurig owners know you can brew a lot more than coffee.  Well, tea, and hot cocoa, so I guess it’s [...]

Qwowi Freestyle: My Vote for Horse of the Year

It’s been much discussed on The Bloodhorse, and no doubt numerous other venues all over the web.  Debates rage, and opinions differ, the one thing most seem to agree on is that it’s pretty much a 3 horse race for the title (how strange is it to see that phrase used in a near literal [...]

Qwowi Answers the Question: What is the Best K-Cup?

Yesterday marked 8 full months since I started the K-Cup Challenge (that’s right, it’s .75 years old).  Granted, 8 months is a fairly arbitrary time frame to celebrate, but I figure since Thursday (which today happens to be) is an unusual day for a celebration (other than Thanksgiving and the occasional football game), and 48 [...]

The Pulse Smartpen from Livescribe Says “Never Miss A Word”

Last month I had the opportunity to attend VMworld 2008 in Las Vegas. This year, the conference featured over 250 breakout sessions, 160 instructor-led labs and over 10,000 attendees. It wasn’t cheap either, which meant I needed to do everything to make sure I got the most of the conference.
There were a few traditional options: [...]

The K-Cup Challenge: Coffee People Organic (Extra Bold)

The last of my samples from our friends at OneGreatCup brings me to Coffee People Organic, which, from what I gather is the only 100% Certified Organic in the Coffee People lineup.  That may or may not matter to you (personally, at 6:30 AM, organic is about the last thing on my mind), but for [...]

Keurig B30 Single-Cup Brewers are Available Now (Red Ones Too)

It’s hard to image the self-confessed Keurig junkie that I am would wait this long (hey I’ve been busy) to tell you about the latest offering in the Keurig single-serve coffee machine lineup, but I did, and now I’m making it right.
The K-Cup Challenge should serve as a testament to how much I love the [...]

Snackin on Chester’s Puffcorn

Puffcorn: Yeah, it’s pretty much the best snack food ever.
It’s been a while since I personally cranked out a food-related review that didn’t have something to do with a K-Cup, but I think I’ve found a little something that warrants some real attention.  You see, every year I throw a party for the Breeders’ Cup.  [...]

Clorox Goes Green, But Can It Still Cut The Grease?

OVERALL RATING: C+
When it comes to doing my dishes and cleaning up the kitchen, I have always been a die hard Palmolive fan.  The other day in the store I got frustrated when there were no more of the tiny sink top Palmolive containers that I like to use (I dread lugging huge heavy bottles [...]

Too Faced Products: Pretty Straight Up With Me!

With high profile clientele such as Katy Perry, Audrina from MTV’s ‘The Hills’, Kirsten Dunst, and Hillary Duff, Too Faced has a quite reputation to live up to.  Let me be one of the first to tell you that this “more bang for your buck” company has some H-O-T new products for the Fall Season.  [...]

Tour Edge Giving Away Fairway Woods (sort of)

Free Tour Edge Exotics XLD Fairway Wood With Exotics XLD Driver Purchase
The Tour Edgename may not be as well-known in golfing circles as say TaylorMade or Titleist, but that doesn’t mean that the Batavia, Illinois based company isn’t on the cutting edge when it comes to club technology and design.
While I haven’t written as extensively [...]

uPlay Releases Version 3.0 Software for the uPro GPS

As some of you are probably far too well aware by now, I’ve been talking up the handheld uPro™ Golf GPS unit from UPlay since February of this year.  Based on everything I saw prior to, and after its release, I was fairly certain it would prove to be the must have on-course accessory of [...]

The K-Cup Challenge: Tully’s Evergreen Blend

Tully’s Evergreen Blend is the last variety from my most recent round of samples from our good friend’s at Shoffee.com (hey Joe, I’m all out again).  It was actually the first K-Cup from the lot that I ran through my brewer, but here I am over a month later, and I’m still not completely sure [...]

Qwowi Review: Blowing Leaves with the Stihl BR 550

Frequently left of the list of wonderful things about owning a home is lawn maintenance.  Even the worst crabgrass invested, sand pit, of a lot (like mine for example), requires mowing, pruning, and of course, the dreaded fall cleanup.
As I’ve mentioned in the past, my house is situated on roughly .8, largely wooded acres.  The [...]