{"id":180,"date":"2004-06-07T11:43:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-07T11:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.tola.me.uk\/blog\/2004\/06\/07\/young-engineer-of-the-year\/"},"modified":"2004-06-07T11:43:00","modified_gmt":"2004-06-07T11:43:00","slug":"young-engineer-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/2004\/06\/07\/young-engineer-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Engineer of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just had a phone call to tell me that I&#8217;m through the the regional finals for the Young Engineer of the Year competition, w00t! Next step is to exhibit my work at Rolls Royce in Derby in July.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got an interview for the job I applied for! At first I thought I&#8217;d lost out because I have a maths exam the same day as the all day interviews and they said there was nothing they could do to change it. But then I got a phone call back and the Principal said I could have an interview on a different day so my interview is on Thursday! Considering the deadline for applications was only yesterday morning that&#8217;s pretty soon. So I have interview right in the middle of three maths exams, wonderful.<\/p>\n<p>Extremely hot weather. A thermometer in the back garden reads 33 degrees celcius, but it is in the sun. I think my router overheated.<\/p>\n<p>I telnetted to it and it kept throwing error messages at me saying it couldn&#8217;t get an IP address. tralk&#8217;s last apache activity was at 6am this morning from an MSN bot and everything refused to work.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hippygeek.co.uk\/images\/internetdown.jpg\" alt=\"Internet Down\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>So I implemented my high tech cooling system&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hippygeek.co.uk\/images\/hotrouter.jpg\" alt=\"Hot Router\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>And everything worked again!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just had a phone call to tell me that I&#8217;m through the the regional finals for the Young Engineer of the Year competition, w00t! Next step is to exhibit my work at Rolls Royce in Derby in July. I&#8217;ve got an interview for the job I applied for! At first I thought I&#8217;d lost &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/2004\/06\/07\/young-engineer-of-the-year\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Young Engineer of the Year<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}