Matthew Hall

Golfing in Canada on January 26th, 2011

Matthew Hall — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 02:03:45 +0000

Gorgeous day in Nanaimo, especially for it being the end of January in Canada! Got to go golfing 2 days before my birthday, which i’ve never got to do before.

Nanaimo, BC Canada

Matthew Hall — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:21:14 +0000

I’m rapidly approaching the end of my third year of living in the beautiful Nanaimo, BC Canada and i thought it was about time for me to write a little bit about it.
TL;DR: It’s fantastic

People

The people are as whole incredibly nice, friendly and helpful, especially compared to the two other major Canadian cities i’ve lived in (Toronto and Calgary).

Weather

The weather is absolutely fantastic. Yes it does rain a fair amount but i was out golfing yesterday on January 9th. Most places in Canada i would be trying to avoid going outside at all on January 9th.

Businesses

I’ve found a ton of small businesses here that i absolutely love and go to regularly. Places like Lucky’s Liquor store, Curious Comics, and Piper’s Meat. I’m hoping to do write ups about my favorite places around town in the near future.

Location

Only an hour and a half ferry to Vancouver (Or a 15 minute flight) and about an hour and a half to drive to Victoria. It’s nestled in a great spot that provides easy access to these larger cities when needed.

Canada’s Gouge-Based Heritage

Matthew Hall — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 13:01:16 +0000

Sky Fighters

Matthew Hall — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 10:07:02 +0000

God damn i forgot how much i want to learn to fly

Google Science Fair

Matthew Hall — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 00:15:32 +0000

The Frontier Is Everywhere

Matthew Hall — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 11:07:17 +0000

2010

Matthew Hall — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 23:22:36 +0000

Well, another year is over, and this last one was definitely an interesting one.

It had it’s ups, as well as some major downs. Overall it would look like a gigantic roller coaster ride.

My entire viewpoint on my life and my future changed dramatically at least 3 times this past year, which is an incredibly weird thing to look back on.

On the business end of things our big launch was MinecraftGSP and a big change was us exiting the Shared hosting market. I think Kerplunc is much better for it.

Kerplunc now has more staff members! This is a big change for us and completely changing the way we operate (We are absolutely loving CampfireNow)

Here’s hoping for the best in 2011!

Kod.app – My New Text Editor

Matthew Hall — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 02:36:06 +0000

Sorry Smultron, i’ve found a new love!

MCWebmin Minecraft PHP Web Control Panel

Matthew Hall — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 06:53:57 +0000

Due to our dissatisfaction with the control panel we are currently using to run our Minecraft servers (McMyAdmin) due to the fact it’s based on Mono, i’m helping start an open source web control panel!
Currently this is a project being run by myself and Kerplunc with Miha Krajnc of NDure.

You can follow the progress of the project on GitHub but it’s currently no where near a usable state.

If you want to contribute then feel free to shoot me an email at matt@kerplunc.com

Giving CloudFlare a Try

Matthew Hall — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 06:42:01 +0000

Heard about CloudFlare.com today and it seems like a pretty awesome idea. Switched this blog over to it to give it a try. We’ll see how it goes