Wabber

Introducing gurupei

rogue71 — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:32:28 +0000

Somewhere deep in the Himalayas, there lived a Holy Man.

Dermagenesis L’Oreal advert

rogue71 — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:09:01 +0000

WTF is going on with these ads – you need a PhD to understand them. Hyaluronic Acid you say, bio-accumulative compost I say. And if I see one more ads for softer, smoother underarms I’m going to explode!

When times are tough – Play the Lottery

wabberjabber — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:55:01 +0000

You know when things are tough when…

1) Your creditors start praying you will winning the lottery
2) When you consider recycling toilet paper
3) When you see bankers on street corners trying to sell you their shoes
4) You start refinancing your television by taking out a second mortgage
5) …

Swine Flu Mania Spreads across the World

wabberjabber — Tue, 26 May 2009 14:55:21 +0000

First it was Mad Cow disease, then Asian bird flu, and now Swine Flu… any guesses what’s next on the list?

Stay tuned for Lazy Lambs disease.

My favourite XKCD cartoon

rogue71 — Tue, 05 May 2009 12:25:03 +0000

Check out XKCD – excellent cartoons for your inner geek. As per the site warning – liberal arts major best not waste their time.

So much to do, so little time

rogue71 — Fri, 01 May 2009 13:09:29 +0000

Another brilliant XKCD cartoon. Have you made your bucket list yet (i.e. things you really want to do before you die)?

James Bond – Another XKCD favourite

rogue71 — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:13:07 +0000

Be sure to check out XKCD – a bit geeky I know but such great fun if you did a science degree!

Bean counting, smiles and statistics

rogue71 — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:27:34 +0000

So now that the platform is up, I will be adding some counters and measures. I need to record the number of unique visitors on Wabber, which posts are the most popular, and most importantly how many people laughed. I’m thinking most likely I will put it up as a poll that will be displayed on all posts. Users will only be allowed to vote once though – that may be tricky to monitor without recording email addresses or something of the sort which is a real pain any true wabber will not do. Suggestions are most welcome.

The number of posts, comments etc is quite easily obtainable from the Wordpress backend so that’s not a problem. I will also be installing tracking codes from a number of blogging platforms including Technorati, Blogrankings, Afrigator, and Amatomu – the more the merrier. I will also track usage using Google Analytics but I haven’t decided yet whether I’m going to integrate the site with Adsense as yet – I will most likely not in the short term anyway.

Still remaining to be done are all things related to the RSS feed management. I use Google’s Feedburner application on the Wonkie cartoon blog and will most likely use the same platform for distributing new posts by email to subscribers for Wabber.

Slowly but surely it’s all getting there!

Wabber Progress

rogue71 — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 10:16:06 +0000

Ok so things are moving along nicely – the names of the various strips have been identified and the core platform is more or less up and running now. The names of the strips and the subjects they cover are as follows:

Bash It All – All about anger and frustration at everything from the workplace to services
Casino Pigs – Poker, gambling and related vices
Harvey Whartbanger – MBA related cartoons and humour
nET yOUR cATCH – The lighter side of singledom and online dating
ze Guru – Cartoons with Spiritual and religious themes
Stat – Medical industry related cartoons
Idle Minds – something about a 4 year old but haven’t figured it all out yet
General – General Comic Fun

Introducing Wabber

rogue71 — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:01:41 +0000

Building on the success of Wonkie, I decided to launch this blog, Wabber.com, that broadened the horizons of Wonkie from mostly political and social satire. Wabber is designed to include a number of different cartoon strips covering some pretty diverse subjects: workplace humour; medical related laughs, MBA and more business related humour; cartoons on spiritual and religious aspects (and no we will not be publishing any Mohammed cartoons to raise our profile but thanks for the innovative suggestion!); gambling and poker gags; and finally a strip looking at the lighter side of the single life and online dating.

A few people have asked why Wabber? Besides sounding like a fun site to visit – there is actually some deep meaning behind the term. It is derived from the word wab which is an acronym for Work Avoidance Behaviour. That makes wabbing the act of avoiding work and wabber obviously a person who is avoiding work. I wanted to create a fun site for people to kill some time and have a few laughs.

The design needs a bit more work but I think it’s enough to get going. There is a platform in place that allows multiple strips on a single site – something that was a little more difficult to do with the ComicPress theme Wonkie was based on. So I’ll leave the fanciness for later and get cracking with the toons as soon as the basics are up and running. More soon…