A slew of minor tweaks and welcome additions for the Wii operating system came down the pipe yesterday, delivered by tiny digital Koopa Paratroopas:

Wii Menu

• The weather forecast will now be displayed on the Forecast Channel icon in the Wii Menu.
• Headline news will now be displayed on the News Channel icon in the Wii Menu.
• The current time will now be displayed in the Wii Menu.
• The area around the Wii Message Board button will now flash when a message arrives..

Wii Message Board

• You’re now able to rearrange the order of your Wii Friends in the address book.
• You’re now able to go into the Wii Friends registration screen by pressing the A Button on a blank spot in the address book.
• Envelope message icons will now appear on the calendar only on the dates when a message is received.
• Your message sending history will now be displayed in Today’s Accomplishments.
• You can now scroll the message text by pressing the B button on the message screen.

Wii Shop Channel

• The search function on Virtual Console has been enhanced.

What they didn’t say: apparently there is some rudimentary USB keyboard support in there now, as well as some bugfixes and a generally snappier demeanor. Nice. Not so nice: it also broke Freeloader.