About Me

So I finally jumped on the bandwagon and created a blog…

I don’t kid myself that I have anything particularly witty or interesting to say, this is more like an experiment with a purpose. I’m an Honours student in Occupational Therapy in New Zealand, and my dissertation is going to be based around Web 2.0 tools, including blogs. So I thought I’d better get with the program and actually try to keep a blog. This is quite funny if you know me at all, considering I have tried and failed to keep any kind of diary for any significant length of time many, many, many times.

About the blog title: I’m not a particularly vindictive person – it’s part of a quote from a Terry Pratchett book. You know the old Chinese proverb:

“Give a man a fish and feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime”

The Terry Pratchett version runs something like:

“Give a man fire and he’s warm for a day; set a man on fire and he’s warm for the rest of his life”

Pragmatic and funny.