Looking for the Mouse (via Rivets) is an interesting thought.

Essentially, it suggests that our increased spare time has previously been used up passively by television. Since we now have computers, interactivity and the Internet, we're no longer satisfied by just watching - we want to take part in some way. The interesting statistic is that it would take as much 'brain time' to produce 100 Wikipedias from scratch as is used in 1% of all the television we watch.

It remains to be seen how we'll all use this spare time, our desire to participate, and to think. Once it's all happened, come and get me, as I'll be watching endless re-runs of Friends ;-)

I've taken the 'bold' step of breaking pages with dozens of comments into multiple pages. With Drupal, this is easy because it's just a setting in the admin screens. However, there's a problem because the 'Recent Comments' block (down on the left hand side) doesn't link to the right page.

A look at drupal.org reveals a number of patches, but none of them particularly good, and none actually making it into Drupal development. I've just created a 'patch', in the form of a theme template. It uses the Drupal cache system to save a bit of database work, which coupled with the Drupal Block Cache should see pretty decent performance. The theme template is attached to this page. Download it, and stick it in your theme's directory (rename the file to comment-block.tpl.php).

I'm doing a sponsored 10K run for ACT. I'd really appreciate some help with the sponsorship, as so far I'm pretty much blagging my place and probably costing the charity more money than I'll make for them.

I should also point out that I'm a bit over-weight, haven't done any exercise in ages and have obviously not done the pre-requisite training. In the past, I could have popped a 10K out without really thinking about it, but at the moment, this is gonna hurt.