Archive for the 'Life' Category
Cleaning Up ITV’s Live World Cup Page
Thursday, June 17th, 2010
Thanks to ITV and the BBC, I’ve had the World Cup on in the background.
Unfortunately the ITV page is full of stuff I just don’t want to see – all I’m interested in is occasionally glancing at the video and seeing the score.
To fix this I did the following:
- Installed this extension for Chrome
- Added a new rule
- Set the regular expression for matching the URL to
^http://live.itv.com/* - Added some CSS
The CSS:
/* Remove the main background image */
body.tipsy {
background-image: none !important;
background-color: black;
}
.applicationArea {
background: none !important;
}
/* Hide the view buttons we don't want to use */
.game_menu h4,
.views_comments,
.views_grid,
.views_big-screen,
.views_video-highlights,
.share_button {
display: none !important;
}
/* Clear out some backgrounds */
#game_menu_bar,
#alert_bar,
.open_block {
background: none !important;
background-color: none !important;
}
/* Remove the border from the video */
.video_container {
border: 0 !important;
}
/* Hide other misc crap */
.comment_container,
#header_bar,
.footer,
#time_line,
#main_grid_panel {
display: none !important;
}
This basically turns this:
Into a big black screen that looks like this:
Much nicer.
Some wedding pics
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
Me and the boy. With many thanks to Alex Makeyev for the photos.


People fly planes
Wednesday, May 19th, 2010
2009
Friday, January 1st, 2010
2009 was a good year.
I love my job, I love being up near Bristol, and my wife and son make me happier than anything.
But most of all it’s been about this amazing little guy.
Here’s to 2010 being the year of family, runs, and software releases.





























