UCLA Volleyball vs. Hawaii
UCLA split the series against Hawaii with a win on Friday followed by a loss on Saturday. I attended the Saturday match, where Hawaii dominated, winning in three straight games.
2005 February
The future of Flickr
Om Malik broke the news this afternoon that Yahoo! is pursuing Flickr. I can’t help but think this is bad news for the Flickr community. While Yahoo!’s servers would ease the growing pains Flickr has been suffering recently — the site has been down three times in the past week — I’m afraid that Yahoo! will integrate Flickr into the rest of its cluttered portal site. Yahoo! will likely tie Flickr in with Geocities, Mail, and even its Calendar service. Of course, banner ads and likely pop-up ads will start appearing, even for the paying customers. I hope Yahoo! doesn’t up the Pro account fees or change the policy on unlimited storage. Of course, this is all just speculation at the moment, but it does make you wonder if Flickr is starting a downward spiral. I sure hope not, because I’m a big fan of the service and currently have over 2,000 photos on the site.
LA suffers a healthy dose of rain
Lately some people around UCLA have been getting on my nerves. As you may know, it has been raining this past week in Westwood and the greater Los Angeles area. However, according to people’s reactions, you’d think we’d be stuck in the middle of the blizzard. The evening news devotes half the night’s coverage to flooding and a couple of poorly built houses that slid down a hillside. Around UCLA, people can’t stop talking about how they forgot to bring an umbrella and they got wet. In my classes, people won’t shut up about the weather. It’s just a little rain, for crying out loud! The past few days, I haven’t been using an umbrella nor have I worn a heavy jacket. It simply isn’t raining that hard. However, I always see people walking around campus with heavy duty snowboarding jackets and ponchos.
Just imagine if it snowed here one day. I think some people would implode.
England over Spring Break
I’m visiting the UK during Spring Break. I bought my plane ticket over the weekend from Expedia, which is currently offering very affordable fares. I managed to get a ticket for $580 round-trip on American. The flight to London is non stop, too! On the flight back, I have one stop but it is in New York, so no complaints. I plan on doing lots of sightseeing and clubbing. When I’m there, I definitely want to stop by Fabric and catch a live DJ set. Hopefully James Lavelle will be spinning sometime when I’m there.
If the arrangements work out, I will also be visiting Ireland for a couple of days during that break. I plan on at least visiting Dublin but the itinerary has not yet been finalized. All I know currently is that I will be staying outside of London for around a week.
I’m totally psyched about this trip. I’m going to be doing a lot of flying in March, since I also have a grad school interview the weekend of March 10th in Michigan. That trip will be a blast as well. My iPod is going to get a workout next month, that’s for sure.