If this blog had been running in 2007, I would no doubt have bored you with paragraphs of praise for a game called Portal.

It’s a fairly brief, it’s very funny, it’s a puzzle, it’s an almost perfect piece of intelligent entertainment. And the world agrees.

If you haven’t played it, then you really should; and now maybe you can, for free!

For now there is Portal 2. It’s much longer, it’s even funnier (mainly due to the voice of Stephen Merchant), the puzzles are more diverse, it’s a perfect piece of intelligent entertainment. Those who pre-ordered Portal 2 (and that included me), were given a free copy of the original Portal game; and I am going to give that to you.

Nik goes a bit crazy when looking for lenses on eBay. Apart from buying coffee cups by mistake, he has a tendency to turn all hot and sweaty over long lens. Clearly it is a penile envy issue, further evidenced by his suggestion of the title for this post.

Usually, I am able to dissuade him from purchasing replica willies, which will look and act ridiculous on our tiny Panasonic cameras; but I failed to stop his latest acquisition, a 400mm Sigma lens originally designed to sit on a Canon film camera.

Had a perfect weekend planned. Windsurfing on Saturday, followed by a trip to Nanotrax on Sunday to watch the Chinese Grand Prix and then stay for the weekly radio controlled car race where I could delight in coming last; again.

Off to windsurf and needed some sustenance before hitting the water, provided by a ham sandwich and a fruit cake from a local supermarket; neither of which offered an expiry date. Off for a sail and had the feeling that the fish were about to see my makeshift lunch. The queasy feeling continued into the evening and by Sunday morning I felt capable of slumping in a chair and doing not very much.