diff --git a/mod/network.php b/mod/network.php
index 17d36dfb28..8e8fe8d1e5 100644
--- a/mod/network.php
+++ b/mod/network.php
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ function network_content(&$a, $update = 0) {
 			'$lockstate' => $lockstate,
 			'$acl' => populate_acl((($group) ? $group_acl : $a->user), $celeb),
 			'$bang' => (($group) ? '!' : ''),
-			'$profile_uid' => $_SESSION['uid']
+			'$profile_uid' => local_user()
 		));
 
 
@@ -190,6 +190,9 @@ function network_content(&$a, $update = 0) {
 
 
 	if($nouveau) {
+
+		// "New Item View" - show all items unthreaded in reverse created date order
+
 		$r = q("SELECT `item`.*, `item`.`id` AS `item_id`, 
 			`contact`.`name`, `contact`.`photo`, `contact`.`url`, `contact`.`rel`,
 			`contact`.`network`, `contact`.`thumb`, `contact`.`dfrn-id`, `contact`.`self`,
@@ -206,6 +209,10 @@ function network_content(&$a, $update = 0) {
 		);
 	}
 	else {
+
+		// Normal conversation view
+		// First fetch a known number of parent items
+
 		$r = q("SELECT `item`.`id` AS `item_id`, `contact`.`uid` AS `contact_uid`
 			FROM `item` LEFT JOIN `contact` ON `contact`.`id` = `item`.`contact-id`
 			WHERE `item`.`uid` = %d AND `item`.`visible` = 1 AND `item`.`deleted` = 0
@@ -218,6 +225,9 @@ function network_content(&$a, $update = 0) {
 			intval($a->pager['itemspage'])
 		);
 
+
+		// Then fetch all the children of the parents that are on this page
+
 		$parents_arr = array();
 		$parents_str = '';
 
@@ -243,6 +253,10 @@ function network_content(&$a, $update = 0) {
 		}
 	}
 
+	// find all the authors involved in remote conversations
+	// We will use a local profile photo if they are one of our contacts
+	// otherwise we have to get the photo from the item owner's site
+
 	$author_contacts = extract_item_authors($r,local_user());
 
 	$cmnt_tpl = load_view_file('view/comment_item.tpl');
@@ -258,6 +272,8 @@ function network_content(&$a, $update = 0) {
 
 		if($nouveau) {
 
+			// "New Item View" - just loop through the items and format them minimally for display
+
 			$tpl = load_view_file('view/search_item.tpl');
 			$droptpl = load_view_file('view/wall_fake_drop.tpl');
 
@@ -325,6 +341,12 @@ function network_content(&$a, $update = 0) {
 
 		}
 
+		// Normal View
+
+
+		// Figure out how many comments each parent has
+		// (Comments all have gravity of 6)
+		// Store the result in the $comments array
 
 		$comments = array();
 		foreach($r as $rr) {
@@ -336,6 +358,9 @@ function network_content(&$a, $update = 0) {
 			}
 		}
 
+		// map all the like/dislike activities for each parent item 
+		// Store these in the $alike and $dlike arrays
+
 		foreach($r as $item) {
 			like_puller($a,$item,$alike,'like');
 			like_puller($a,$item,$dlike,'dislike');
@@ -353,9 +378,18 @@ function network_content(&$a, $update = 0) {
 			$sparkle = '';
 			$owner_url = $owner_photo = $owner_name = '';
 
-			if(((activity_match($item['verb'],ACTIVITY_LIKE)) || (activity_match($item['verb'],ACTIVITY_DISLIKE))) && ($item['id'] != $item['parent']))
+
+			// We've already parsed out like/dislike for special treatment. We can ignore them now
+
+			if(((activity_match($item['verb'],ACTIVITY_LIKE)) 
+				|| (activity_match($item['verb'],ACTIVITY_DISLIKE))) 
+				&& ($item['id'] != $item['parent']))
 				continue;
 
+			// Take care of author collapsing and comment collapsing
+			// If a single author has more than 3 consecutive top-level posts, squash the remaining ones.
+			// If there are more than two comments, squash all but the last 2.
+
 			if($item['id'] == $item['parent']) {
 				if($blowhard == $item['cid'] && (! $item['self'])) {
 					$blowhard_count ++;
@@ -388,6 +422,8 @@ function network_content(&$a, $update = 0) {
 				$o .= '</div>';
 			}
 
+
+
 			$redirect_url = $a->get_baseurl() . '/redir/' . $item['cid'] ;
 
 			$lock = ((($item['private']) || (($item['uid'] == local_user()) && (strlen($item['allow_cid']) || strlen($item['allow_gid']) 
@@ -546,6 +582,9 @@ function network_content(&$a, $update = 0) {
 	}
 
 	if(! $update) {
+
+		// if author collapsing is in force but didn't get closed, close it off now.
+
 		if($blowhard_count > 3)
 			$o .= '</div>';
 
diff --git a/util/typo.php b/util/typo.php
index 84a50e15e2..e20cce86a5 100644
--- a/util/typo.php
+++ b/util/typo.php
@@ -37,6 +37,11 @@
 		}
 	}
 
+	if(x($a->config,'php_path'))
+		$phpath = $a->config['php_path'];
+	else
+		$phpath = 'php';
+
 	echo "String files\n";
 
 	echo 'util/strings.php' . "\n";
@@ -47,5 +52,6 @@
 
 	foreach($files as $file) {
 		echo $file . "\n";
-		include_once($file);
+	passthru($phpath . ' util/typohelper.php ' . $file);
+//		include_once($file);
 	}
diff --git a/util/typohelper.php b/util/typohelper.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..589702a02a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/util/typohelper.php
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+<?php
+
+$str = <<< EOT
+	error_reporting(E_ERROR | E_WARNING | E_PARSE );
+	ini_set('display_errors', '1');
+	ini_set('log_errors','0');
+EOT;
+
+	$str .= str_replace('<?php', '', file_get_contents($argv[1]));
+	
+	eval($str);