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
Category Archives: random
Tiny Chunky Learning (36)
It could be the name of a new flavour by B&J’s, but in this case it’s how I would describe my learning path in Final Cut, THE video editing software for Mac. I’ve bought it in June, to gain more flexibility and possibilities in video editing compared to iMovie ‘09.
I’ve learned to work with Adobe [...]
E-books still too expensive (28)
I’m in the possession of a Sony Reader Touch (PRS 600) since september and so far I’ve read a total of three books on it. I have mixed feeling about the Reader Touch. I love the device itself, few buttons, sturdy feeling, ability to take notes and reading is a better experience than on a [...]
Geeky arts ‘n crafts (26)
This is what I’ve been working on yesterday.
Lasercutting X-mas presents from Elmine Wijnia on Vimeo.
(about the number in the title)
Snow and infrastructure don’t match
Trein Chaos 17 December 2009 from Elmine Wijnia on Vimeo.
Due to snowfall and several incidents, train travel to and from Utrecht CS (central NL) was a challenge. I took a detour via Arnhem, to get back to Enschede (east NL), the same train my colleague Simon took to go to Nijmegen (south NL).
Surprisingly enough I [...]
At the ‘office’ in Utrecht (25)
No, I did not decide to move to Utrecht, nor am I renting an office space there, but Utrecht has a place that almost feels like my home office. It’s called Protospace, and Siert (aka my brother) works there as manager of a space where people can make things, Fab Lab-style. And that’s [...]
Kids and their body skills (19)
I’m reading a (German) book on kids’ body development that I picked up in a bookstore in Dresden this summer. I won’t get into details here, but the numbers are rather shocking. The amount of time kids (in this case based on German research, but the numbers could easily be representative for the whole of [...]
Let me tell you the story… (16)
…of this guy from California who traveled to Europe, ends his trip with giving a talk in Aachen, was picked up afterwards by this Dutch guy from Enschede, who drove him to Utrecht to have dinner with four other people from Enschede and now sleeps in a hotel in Utrecht so he can catch a [...]
Sundays are good for hanging out with cool people (7)
Also called Enschede geeklounge. Hope to see you next time as well
(About the number in the title)
Scandinavian winter is dark… (6)
… and burning lots of candles is how they bring light and warmth to their homes during these cold months. We copied the habit after our visit to Umeå, and how could we resist buying these two from Anna Carin Dahl in Copenhagen at Stilleben?
(About the number in the title)
First time skiing since February (38)