Explosion@PayPal!

Hey all,
    Did you hear about the latest? Many many many many problems have arised due to non-completion of online payments via the internet payment major, PayPal. This has been attributted to an explosion which occured yesterday in the EBay campus.

    EBay’s North San Jose campus is closed today and federal law
enforcement officials continue to search around a building at the
company’s PayPal division after an explosion Tuesday night shattered a
window and forced the evacuation of 26 employees.

    FBI, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and San
Jose police investigators appeared to be digging with shovels at the
site this morning.

    No one was injured inside the company’s four-story network
operations center at 2211 N. First St. in San Jose, and no explosive
devices were found in the rest of the company’s 100,000-square-foot
complex, which police had cordoned off Tuesday night. Yellow police
tape strung across the main parking lot this morning.

    EBay officials say eBay and PayPal service has not been disturbed.
Many of the processes that keep the sites running can be handled from
other locations, eBay spokesman Hani Durzy said.

    San Jose police Sgt. Nick Muyo described the source of the blast as
a sophisticated explosive device that not only broke a large, thick
piece of safety glass, but overturned furniture inside.

    About 1,900 eBay employees work at the North San Jose campus, which
includes PayPal headquarters, technology staff and the network
operations center, spokesman Hani Durzy said. Employees at that campus
were invited to work at the company’s other San Jose location or dial
in from home, he said.

    When PayPal employee Dan Hyder arrived for work this morning, he was
told the office was closed and given a flier explaining what had
happened. He walked around the site for a while after, taking pictures
of the investigators milling around the building where he used to work.

    “It’s bizarre,” said Hyder, who now works in a different building
and had already left work by the time the incident began Tuesday night.

    Muyo said the timing of the explosion, at 7:34 p.m. when many people
had already left work for the day, might indicated that whomever placed
the device at the building wasn’t looking to injure people.

    Authorities received multiple reports of a smoke detector alarm
sounding, Guerrero said, followed a few minutes later by multiple calls
of an explosion.

    When crews arrived, they found a 6-by-7-foot window had been
shattered near a first-floor exit between the network operations center
and a nearby building at 2161 N. First St. The window’s frame was bent
and a light haze covered the area, Guerrero said. No flames, however,
were visible, nor was there any other damage. Other debris was in the
area, said Guerrero, who couldn’t say Tuesday night exactly what the
debris was.

    “It wasn’t anything radioactive,” Guerrero said.

    Meanwhile, teams from the federal ATF, San Jose fire’s
hazardous-materials crew and the San Jose police bomb squad were
roaming the buildings. Guerrero said no other explosive devices were
found.

    Authorities have suspicions about what may have caused the blast,
Guerrero said, but he declined to disclose them. Muyo declined to say
whether or not security cameras may have captured video footage from
the site of the crash.

    “We’re not ruling anything out,” said Muyo. Neither PayPal nor its
corporate parent eBay received any threats prior to the blast, Muyo
said.

    “It was fortunate that no one was hurt,” said Catherine England, an eBay spokeswoman.

    England encouraged employees to check their e-mail and to call the
emergency numbers on backs of their badges before heading to work
today. Durzy said the company hopes to have the North San Jose campus
open for work on Thursday.

    “We have no reason to assume it was anything other than an isolated incident,” he said.

News Courtesy : Mercury News

    Lets hope for a speedy recovery of the PayPal Window :D Lol… Anyway, good night for now…

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November 2, 2006 | Filed Under Net News | 1 Comment 

The Muscle Car Marathon!

Hey all,
    Yep… These people wanted me to show my human-2( like web 2 :P ) muscles on my blog… And well, yeah, the announcement I wanted to make, the Muslce Car Marathon will air on Nov. 24 at 9am EST on Speedtv.

    As you might have already guessed, this post is sponsered by Speedtv.com, and there is no other way I would have shown by beautiful muscles :P

    B y the way, for all those blondes(just a joke! no offence!) out there who are wondering what Muscle Cars are, well, they arent drivers showing muscles, but they are those MACHO CARS out there :)

    So, dont forget to catch the Muscle Car Marathon… Repeat, its on Nov 24th, 9am EST on Speedtv!

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November 2, 2006 | Filed Under General World | 1 Comment 

Misnomer - poem by Denise Levertov - A review

Hello all,
    I’ve been receiving very many requests via email to review poems. I try to give a comprehensive review of each poem by email. But lately, a few requests have come in to review poems(based on peace) by famous poets… So, here I am, typing this post…

    Please note that the opinions voiced here are entirely my own. They might be good/bad/encouraging/discouraging for the family members/friends of the poet, but I express them for myself, as any private poem reader would. You may share my views, or differ from them, but please note that a poem is interpreted in many ways by different people. I would be glad to hear your opinions, so use the comment function :P

    So here’s the poem… Titles “Misnomer” and written by the great American poet, Denise Levertov.

Misnomer

They speak of the art of
war,
but the arts
draw their light from the soul’s well,

and warfare
dries up the soul and draws its power
from a dark and burning wasteland.
When Leonardo
set his genius to devising
machines of destruction he was not
acting in the service of art,
he was suspending
the life of art
over an abyss,
as if one were to hold
a living child out of an airplane window
at thirty thousand feet.

by Denise Levertov

Poem courtesy - Waging Peace

    Not exactly a peace poem for a regular reader. A very original, modern style of writing is prevalant in his lines. But Levertov has used rhyming and unrhyming couplets to bring out the more sensitive parts.

    The first few lines speak the universal truth of peace. It says and portrays how war and non violence affects us humans adversely. It describes how our world will be wasted by war, and other immoral activities.

    He talks here of Leonardo, and then of art. I guess that this reference is to Leonardo Da Vinci and his paintings. I also gather than Levertov was a critic of Da Vinci. Levertov says that Da Vinci was commiting a big mistake, and he was choking art, not prospiring it… I do not share the views of Levertov, as Da Vinci, as you might know, is one of those painters who have succeeded in capturing paintings worth a third look! He has captured human and inhuman emotions and actions to the slightest degree…

    Anyway, the rest of the poem is quite easy to understand. But I’m still in void to the reference of Da Vinci and his art, along with war… The poem seems to have been done at two completely different time periods… If anyone comes up with a possible theory, do contact me…

    But till then, toodles :)

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