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About
the person
The name is Darice de Cuba, born on Aruba 30 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 employed by the Hogeschool Rotterdam.
In my free time I like weblogging, cooking, reading, photography, watch lots of TV shows and watch the occasional epic tennis matches on TV. Since giving up music when I became deaf I have becomed more addicted to TV shows. A few of my favorites are: Chuck, The Big Bang Theory, Bones, Castle and Dexter.
how to contact me
Use my contact form or email me directly at darice {at} darice.org if you’ve got any questions or comments.
the website
I have this weblog since 2003, it used to be my own clunky programmed 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.
To keep track of visitors I use Mint. Beautiful interface, lots of useful plug-ins and great support.
tech
I work on a 2 Ghz Intel, 4GB RAM Mac Mini with Snow Leopard and a HP 19 inch widescreen monitor. For photos I use Nikon D70 and Canon S90. I also shoot film sometimes with an Olympus Trip 35, Yashica T5 and a Yashica Electro GX.
simplicity is the ultimate sophistication’ -Da Vinci