It’s all about him.

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.

Me and the boy. With many thanks to Alex Makeyev for the photos.

“Birds fly”
Does anybody else fly?
“People fly planes”
We flew in a plane didn’t we? Do you remember where we went?
“Australia”
Who did we see in Australia?
“Nanna. NickJeab. Grandpa. DaddysNanna”
It was good wasn’t it?
“Yeah!”
…
“Me outside back garden”

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.