Mark's Blog

• Oh well, at least we scored away from home I suppose. #twitterclarets #
• Also, come on West Ham #
• @NickBFC75 Yeah, sounds like they've had a shocker and we should have just equalised in reply to NickBFC75 #
• 2-1? I was expecting far worse. Come on Burnley #twitterclarets #
• What has Boris done with his hair? #bbcqt #
• Thoughts with Alex MacDonald at this difficult time for him and his family. #twitterclarets #burnleyfc #clarets #
• http://tweetphoto.com/12932948 Oh yes, welcome to 21CN #
• SQLyog is a lifesaver for doing MySQL related work #

Simple message; if you’ve got phpBB installed somewhere, it’s time to update to 3.0.7.

It’s really, really easy these days so you have no excuses .

• @cs278 Nah, proper game, not that running and throwing the ball rubbish in reply to cs278 #
• We really needed to win that today. I'm not sure where we're going to get the points to stay up if I'm honest. #twitterclarets #
• That's it. It's not good #twitterclarets not good at all. #
• Sounds like the ref has completely lost control of the game #twitterclarets #
• @claretsgirl Sounds like it on current form. At least everyone will be able to get tickets in reply to claretsgirl #
• Sounds like the second leading up to the penalty will be a comedy of errors on MOTD tonight #twitterclarets #
• Scores this one. Bloody hell. #twitterclarets #
• Another penalty from Carlisle. He hasn't brought his Countdown form into the match today #twitterclarets #
• @gregbfc73 Fletcher seems to find it easier to miss than to score in reply to gregbfc73 #
• Fucking hell Fletcher #twitterclarets #
• Yes! Saved by beast #twitterclarets #
• Plesk backup, you're fucking useless #
• …not exactly useful if you're doing a full server migration. Some of us like to use more than half a HDD… #
• Plesk backup system is the crappest software I've come across in quite a while. You need over 50% disk space free to migrate anything… #
• It's 2.30am which must mean it's site moving time… new container provisioned and moving domains and related sundries #
• @ClaretsBeth Long walk home? #
• Clarke is winning again! Does anybody know if he gets through today? #twitterclarets #
• Clarke on countdown again, can he do it two days in a row… #twitterclarets #
• Bloody hell #curling #
• We're almost there… #curling #
• Come on TeamGB #curling #
• @stickerboy After going from Firefox to Chrome and back to Firefox I've decided that all browsers as as bad as each other #
• @kevr1990 No doubt he'll go on about the quality and desire of the players in the postmatch interview. He looked a broken man on Sunday #
• @kevr1990 Spurs 4-0 Bolton #
• So, do we think Judas is losing sleep thinking "What was I smoking when I made that decision in January"? #twitterclarets #burnleyfc #
• If we played in the Countdown League we'd be champions #twitterclarets #burnleyfc #burnley #clarkecarlisle #
• http://bit.ly/d9WH6F Well worth a read, even after the event. Laced with satirical comedy #twitterclarets #burnleyfc #clarets #
• Clarke, you're a credit to Burnley Football Club #twitterclarets #burnleyfc #clarets #
• @line3 Carl, I didn't know you'd moved jobs, where are you working now? #
• Yay, svn configured on redmine as well, rocking and rolling #
• FINALLY. After two days I've finally got Redmine working… I can go to bed happy. Just SVN configuration and clean-up to go #
• http://bit.ly/bGS1dj Well, her smear plan backfired sucessfully didn't it… 3 patrons resigning in a day #
• GoDaddy playing silly buggers when trying to transfer out a domain… #
• What have they done to Wigan's pitch? it looks in a right state #
• This analysis is painful #twitterclarets #
• Crap, crap, crap defending #twitterclarets #
• Watching MOTD2 again. What the hell is Beast doing punching that out for their first goal. #twitterclarets #
• I'm struggling here. Is there a reason why we are so shite away from the Turf? #twitterclarets #burnleyfc #clarets #
• Painful. #
• 4th official obviously taking the piss there #twitterclarets #burnleyfc #clarets #
• 4 minutes? #
• @claretsgirl Send her in for a trial, seems anybody is better than Jensen these days #
• Come on Burnley. We've got to do better than this. It's really poor. #twitterclarets #burnleyfc #clarets #
• Can we just quit early please, this is painful #twitterclarets #
• Piss. Off. #twitterclarets #
• We're ever so slightly fucked. #twitterclarets #burnleyfc #clarets #
• The question is, can we hold on and grab a winner in the second half? #twitterclarets #burnleyfc #clarets #
• Bloody hell. #twitterclarets #burnleyfc #clarets #
• Brian Laws' Clarets Army #twitterclarets #
• We can do this Burnley. Come on! #twitterclarets #burnleyfc #clarets #
• Yes! #
• Right. Come on you Clarets! #twitterclarets #burnleyfc #clarets #
• @ClaretsBeth Bolton fans keeping the hope with Judas then? #
• Oh yes, 3-0. Classic. Judas must be sick as a parrot #rovertill2 #
• Woop woop #roveruntil2 #
• If you want to know what an empty stand sounds like turn on ESPN now… #roveruntil2 #twitterclarets #
• If you look up "Shite Game" in the dictionary you get two club crests; Bastards and Wanky Wanderers #roveruntil2 #
• Rails makes me cry #
• FINALLY got rack and passenger to play together. Hopefully we're getting somewhere #
• I'm about to murder someone #
• Let's try again. I will get this bugger working even if it kills me. #
• Redmine is killing me… #
• Trying to get redmine installed on a new container now I've got the IP block sorted #
• Hammering my internet connection with ~500MB of Adobe updates #
• When I say swish I mean it would be if it actually bloody worked. Idiots. #
• Plesk now has a web installer. Very swish http://tweetphoto.com/12035591 #parallels #plesk #

Finally we’ve got our first away win of the season courtesy of Clarke Carlisle’s appearance on the Channel 4 show Countdown.

He’s a confessed fan of the show and apparently never misses an episode, and he steamrollered the opposition by 89 points to 55. Now, if only we can pass this kind of effort into our away form we’ll be okay .

Well done Clarke, you’re a credit to Burnley Football Club.

• @stickerboy Don't you know that somewhere a sysadmin in the world dies whenever you use hotmail? It's so 2002 #
• @stickerboy Why the hell are you using Windows Live Mail? Are you a sucker for pain or something? #
• Come on Burnley. 3 points and our first away win tomorrow for the Sky lot would be brilliant #twitterclarets #burnleyfc #clarets #
• http://bit.ly/930CzO Good. Whether or not we agree with the transfer window it makes a mockery if they had said yes #portsmouthfc #pompey #
• Canadians protesting about Williams' helmet. Sore losers. #olympics #skeleton #teamgb #
• Pierced some holes in the firewall so hopefully uTorrent should work with the new network config #
• Great effort Amy Williams, gold for Britain #olympics #teamgb #
• RT @claretsgirl: #twitterclarets we're a Twitter team, often better than the real, Prem, team. @claretsgirl/twitterclarets #
• http://bit.ly/930CzO Come on Fifa, have a pair of bollocks #portsmouth #
• …not sure I like not being able to control the router though, but it's good enough for it's purpose #bt #homehub #adsl #broadband #
• One BT HomeHub set up for the day. Broadband has got easier – literally plug and play, no usernames or passwords… #
• Straw poll among everyone – if you had to pick one to use, would you choose Plesk or cPanel? #hosting #plesk #cpanel #
• Skeleton competitors are clearly mental #vancouver2010 #winterolympics #
• Found a brilliant program, FlickrDown – http://bit.ly/dwN59 – I think my photos might be saved. Huge Kudos to greggman – even works on Win7 #
• @backupify Great – any way that the user can download the entire backup as an archive rather than just individual photos? #
• @backupify Do you do backup for Flickr accounts as well? #
• Kicking my ISP up the arse to get the line upgraded to WBC and thus ADSL2+. The joys of BT having a monopoly on the network eh… #
• Friendly guy from the gas just arrived, pointed him in the right direction so we'll see if any repairs are needed #
• Just called the gas board out, massive smell of gas on the corner of our road; if I don't reply you know I've been blown up #
• Speed Skating now has "Sweet Caroline" as a musical interlude #winterolympics #vancouver2010 #
• @stickerboy geek #
• You know what pisses me off? Insurance companies who send another email every time you requote. One will do. Idiots. #
• Anybody know a good way of mass-downloading images from Flickr? Lost the originals and want to get them back from Flickr #

Just a quick note to you all to say that I am still living, just very busy. I’ll try to get back to semi-regular blogging soon, I promise .

• How do the press dream some of this shite about Coyle leaving up eh #BurnleyFC #Clarets #
• It's been a while since I was in the @phpbb support forums… always good to go back #
• Trying to sort out my inbox… ~1400 messages and it should be 0 #
• Wooo, inbox clear. Hopefully I'll be able to keep it that way #
• @vvondra Yeah, most of my usual mail just gets filtered into the correct folder but I need to get better at doing that for irregular stuff #
• Mass hysteria on Clarets Mad as it appears Coyle is going to Bolton. I'm concerned. #BurnleyFC #Clarets #
• @Kayako No update on pricing for v4 I assume? Really interested in giving the app for a spin when it's released #
• Arsenal ran rings around West Ham in that last 20/30 minutes. Outclassed. Hopefully we can get Wiltshire on loan as well #
• Draw coming up shortly… #facup #BurnleyFC #Clarets #
• Reading or Liverpool v Burnley #BurnleyFC #facup #Clarets #
• Surely we all want Reading for more of "Paterson gone for goal" and "Thompson takes a swing" a la Play Off Semi FInal #BurnleyFC #Clarets #
• http://bit.ly/7xi3be If he's gone it's the biggest mistake he'll ever make. Idiot. #BurnleyFC #Clarets #
• http://bit.ly/4EZiLi Sounds like a done deal unless Kilby is planning a last ditch attempt to get him to reconsider #BurnleyFC #Clarets #
• And if he does go I'll be very disappointed. I expected better from him to be honest. #BurnleyFC #Clarets #OwenCoyle #
• Yay, RMA request processed. Thanks @Ebuyerdotcom #
• @claretsgirl Don't think so, but no doubt we'll probably get a statement to that effect tomorrow after his meeting with Kilby in reply to claretsgirl #
• Don't suppose anybody has any news on how the meeting with OC and Kilby went tonight? #OwenCoyle #BurnleyFC #Clarets #
• @JosephRedmond "If we can't have him then nobody else can" I like it, good work in reply to JosephRedmond #
• "My source has just told me Kilby has put the Capital Punishment DVD on for them all to watch now" Comedy gold from #Clarets Mad #BurnleyFC #
• http://bit.ly/66WQiU Victory from the jaws of defeat? Who knows, we continue to wait and see #BurnleyFC #Clarets #OwenCoyle #
• http://bit.ly/7wCGIm He's a prized plank #BurnleyFC #Clarets #OwenCoyle #
• @claretsgirl Indeed. He's making a huge mistake IMO, especially after saying that he was all about completing the job that he started in reply to claretsgirl #
• PO30 6/10 #uksnow #
• Come on Stevie Davis, lets show Coyle what he's walked away from #BurnleyFC #Clarets #OwenCoyle #
• Every single school on the Isle of Wight closed – funny how snow causes so much chaos #uksnow #isleofwight #
• Sounds like Bolton can't afford the compo so Coyle might be on gardening leave for a while longer yet… hah #BurnleyFC #Clarets #OwenCoyle #
• http://bit.ly/5ZdtMr I have a feeling it'll get called off – good so we can sort everything out in time for Utd away #BurnleyFC #Clarets #
• http://bit.ly/7nevji A good read about Coyle #BurnleyFC #Clarets #OwenCoyle #
• It's certainly pretty cold out there… http://bit.ly/5YKUSG #uksnow #
• Yay, static IP block finally set up #
• Compo agreed, Coyle has finished tending his garden and is in charge of Bolton. Have fun in the fizzy pop league next season Owen #clarets #
• How come Wanky Wanderers don't have a press conference with Coyle yet? Interested to see if he's got a conscience for us #BurnleyFC #Clarets #
• @danwalkerbbc If you do come I'm sure we'll give you a warm welcome Lancashire style in reply to danwalkerbbc #
• http://bit.ly/8pWyFu This is absolutely brilliant #BurnleyFC #Clarets #OwenCoyle #

Well, I wasn’t expecting to write that title a couple of weeks ago but alas the individual formerly known as ‘God’ has decided that he stands a better chance of staying in the Premier League with Bolton.

Bolton? Seriously?

He’s burnt, knocked down and destroyed a lot of bridges with the fans after continually speaking about loyalty towards the football club and supporters; who knows if he ever realised how much the football club meant to its fans. Reading between the lines it seems that he has gone due to a lack of budget at Burnley, something he would have known before signing a contract extension last year. We don’t live beyond our means and are doing fine by not over-stretching ourselves so I don’t see the need to do this just because a manager wants to get the chequebook out.

He’s already said to our chairman that he “would only leave Burnley for Celtic or Bolton” – how true that is I have no idea but it seemed that he had the opportunity to leave for Celtic earlier but didn’t because he wanted to continue the experience with Burnley – how times change.

I think it’s safe to say that almost every fan is bitterly disappointed with the move and him personally for the way in which he’s gone about it, including me. After all that he’s said previously I would have thought he had a little more respect for both the club and the fans than to deny that he wanted the job on Thursday, to miss a press conference on Saturday and then affirm he wanted to leave on Monday.

It’s a shame Owen that you have gone about it in this way; you could have left Burnley a hero but instead you’ve rather tainted your own image. Thank you for the good times but I hope that we move onto bigger and better things without you.

Always worth remembering that no man is ever bigger than the football club and Burnley will live on to fight more and bigger battles than this; and will win them too.

• Bloody hell… lost again #
• @Ebuyerdotcom dispatching early on the 5 Working Days shipping option – good service #
• Setting up an AdWords campaign, forgot how stupidly complex it is to do #
• I know I've tweeted about this before but how stupid are Parcelforce for not having Windows 7 down as an acceptable OS #
• Replacement drive in, array rebuilding. Still no word from @Ebuyerdotcom returns about the dead one though #
• Woo, car test passed. Still prefer the bike though #
• Happy New Year to one and all… hope 2010 is a good one for everyone #
• Just looking at @kayako v4 desktop application, looks fantastic http://bit.ly/6NzH2s #
• Plesk is a pain in the arse #

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