Darice de Cuba

the person

The name is Darice de Cuba, born on Aruba 28 years ago. Residing in The Hague, Holland. Loves reading, photography, movies and tennis. Speaks a good amount of Papiamento, Spanish, English and Dutch.

Since August 2006 I became a kidney patient and have been on dialysis since mid 2006 until mid March 2009 when I got a kidney transplant. I also lost my hearing on December 2007 but I’m able to lip read, the better I know a person the better I can lip read them.

I kept working daily during my dialysis period albeit part-time. The day after I lost my hearing I had a job interview, instead of giving up I just sucked it up and went anyway and got the job. Since then things have changed including undergoing transplant and I’m now looking for a new part-time job.

Meanwhile I work freelance under Storage Nine.

In my free time I like weblogging, cooking, reading, photography and watch the occasional tennis matches on TV.

how to contact me

Use my contact form if you’ve got any questions or comments.

the website

I have this weblog since 2003, it used to be my own clunky weblog system in PHP/mySQL. Since 2007 I switched to Simplelog which is a Ruby on Rails application. Since then the weblog app. has not been updated and with each Rails upgrade on my host back then more errors started showing up. Now I’m back with PHP using Wordpress. Read more about the current design.

To keep track of visitors I use Mint. Beautiful interface, lots of useful plug-ins and great support.

And all this is hosted by Storage Nine.

tech

I work on a 2 Ghz Intel, 2GB RAM Mac Mini with Snow Leopard and a HP 19 inch widescreen monitor. For photos I use Nikon D70 and a Ricoh GR1. I also shoot film sometimes with an Olympus Trip 35, Yashica T5 and a Yashica Electro GX.

simplicity is the ultimate sophistication’ -Da Vinci

random

• My Amazon wishlist