About this blog
This is my personal blog which I started in 2003. At first it was called Communigations, a variation on Communicative Investigations. The blog transformed itself more into a personal investigation than being a blog on communication and therefore needed a new name.As a fencer, the name of this blog reflects how I write my thoughts into coherent stories, fence them off from all the sidepaths and rapidly go back and forth, covering various topics that interest me.
Read more about me or about my work at elminewijnia.eu
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A ‘lazy’ Sunday (63)
Grotere kaart weergeven
Had a lovely dinner with my brother and his girlfriend today. Quite relaxing, except for driving 187KM back and forth to the other side of the country. Not exactly the greenest thing to do, but sometimes social investment beats environmental care. Let’s hope someday soon these kind of visits do not require fossil [...]
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This is where I spend my Friday evenings (61)
Where I spend my Friday evenings from Elmine Wijnia on Vimeo.
“…kind of tired…”, talking about understatement of the year
And what it looks like when there are kids moving around in this space (recorder in 2008: a two-day training during the holidays).
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The incredible sad story of poor bookstores in Enschede (55)
In the beginning, when I came to live in Enschede (‘97), there was one Really Good Bookstore, one Generally OK Bookstore and one Really Bad Bookstore (there were more, but those were 2nd-hand stores or post-order extension stores, which are not part of this story, although The incredible sad story of the single secondhand bookstore [...]
Good plan: Dutch publications digitized (52)
The Royal Library (KB), the national library of The Netherlands, plans to digitize all Dutch publications since 1470. You could easily say what took them so long, but in this case I’d say rather late than never. Good plan!
From their policy for the next 3 years:
1. We offer everyone access to everything published in and [...]
A bit of Sunday play. (49)
Nothing beats a fresh pack of snow.
(about the number in the title)
We’re running out of salt (48)
We, the Dutch, almost forgot about winter.
With so few cold winters and little snow in the recent past, local governments shortened their stack of salt for the roads over the years. But now, because of the continuing snowfall, they are confronted with shortage of salt to keep the roads clear from snow and ice. [...]
Useful: a cover with light for the Sony Reader (46)
It wasn’t dark in the room while I recorded this, but the video turned out to be rather black at the beginning. It gives a nice dramatic turn when I turn on the cover light
The Sony Reader Light from Elmine Wijnia on Vimeo.
A picture for a slightly better look:
More pictures at bol.com
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The problem with New Year’s Day… (40)
…is that even if you don’t have a hang over you’re still hung over, because you’re sleep deprived, ate too much and had two glasses of champagne more than you should have. Always a pleasant way to start the new year.
(about the number in the title)
Happy New Year!
Wishing you a loving and healthy 2010 full of fun, inspiring projects that will make the world a little bit better, for you, your family and the planet.
London through 50mm