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.

“Galen, could I please just watch this on TV for a bit?”

starts watching tv

THWACK – the ball hits my nose.

“OW!”

LAUGHTER

“OK, I can play cricket again now.”

“No, watch TV.”

And just like that, the boy spent the next 10 minutes throwing a cricket ball at the side of my head.

“Daddy Galen cornflakes”
Did you eat cornflakes for breakfast? Were they yum?
“Yeah! Eat all up”
Wow. Are they all in your belly?
stares at me like I’m an idiot, then points to face
“Nooo. MOUTH.”

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.