Monthly Archive for May, 2006

The Chewbacca Defense

Published on May 28, 2006 in Random. 0 Comments

Long have I referenced the Chewbacca defense, but tonight was the first time I saw the original video where the Chewbacca defense was first used.

And here it is.

Jonathan.

Arm Operation

Published on May 17, 2006 in Life. 0 Comments

Well, barring any mail arriving from the Upper Hutt hospital regarding giving me a public funded operation, I am now lined up for surgery privately on June 29th.

On a related note, I am now accepting donations to the “fund Jo’s arm operation fund”. The operation is costing $6000, but thankfully health insurance reduces that to only $2000, so that’s better.

So, here’s hoping that this surgery can begin my path to recovery (after the last one was a bit of a false start).

Cheers,
Jonathan.

Wedding Update 3

Published on May 16, 2006 in Wedding. 0 Comments

Here’s the cars we will be using. Unfortunately they aren’t too well photographed here (this one was parked tightly in someones garage). Julia and I will have three of them for the day.

Cheers,
Jonathan

Wedding update 2

Published on May 9, 2006 in Wedding. 0 Comments

Following up from my last wedding update, this is the location for the reception:

Picture of Caccia Birch House
Cheers,
Jonathan

Wedding Update 1

Published on May 7, 2006 in Wedding. 0 Comments

Hello,

Here is the church Julia and I are to be married in:

Picture of Aokautere Church
James should recognise it: he drives past it daily to get to Massey. It’s the Aokautere Community Church, and is the reason we changed the date of our wedding to the Sunday.

Cheers,
Jonathan

About

Jonathan Giles is a 25 year old software engineer living in Thames, New Zealand. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering Honours in Software Engineering, a Masters of Science in Computer Science, and is a Sun certified Java programmer. Jonathan specialises in Java, Swing, JavaFX and Client-Server development.

He is currently a software engineer at Oracle in the JavaFX UI controls team. He also blogs over at the FX Experience blog. Obviously, the opinions expressed here are his own.

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